Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
According to statistics, 95% of all incarcerated people will come home. Director Tamara Perkins follows three men in th…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
With farmer suicides on the rise in India due to the appalling conditions for growing crops, could an NGO make up for t…
This educational short film is an inspiring portrait of resilience and collaborative community work through the experie…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
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…
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…
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