A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
In just a few minutes, this short film from reveals the polluting mechanism behind the extraction of gold, the precious…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
When the premises of the peace treaty in Colombia are threatened by a new government, two coca and marijuana growers fi…
Shot in 16mm in the best style of the informational ethnographic documentaries of the 1980s, this is a portrait of the …
After a tragic fire in Melbourne's northeast in 2009, a group of Australian Blacksmiths begin to build their greatest j…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
Did you know that the richest country in the world has one of the most alarming poverty rates in the world? This docume…
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
How is the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution celebrated without the presence of its lea…
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
If in the last century the pioneering black ballerinas faced exclusion and discrimination, today there are still young …
In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
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