This film transports us to the jungle heart of Brazil, where the Ãwa indigenous people tell us their story of forced mi…
This raw and visceral portrait of Hip Hop artist Vianey Otero, also known as So Icey Trap, takes us into the fascinatin…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. …
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
As industrial towns in the United States go into decline, a community in Detroit shows that it is possible to promote u…
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
This inspiring documentary follows Rina, a young girl from El Salvador who discovers Bici-Tec, a pedal-power technology…
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
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