In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
In the middle of a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Turkey, three pregnant Kurdish teenagers survive alone …
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
Fighting for their right to freedom of movement within their own land, a group of Palestinians challenge their own cult…
An inspiring documentary about a group of South Asian women living in Calgary, Canada, who promote women's rights from …
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
Filmed over the course of five years, this audacious documentary unravels the case of Victor Pearson, alias Kano, an Am…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
How a child who dreamed of becoming a doctor ends up being charged with murder? Adeyemi Michael starts a quest to find …
Three marching bands prepare for the traditional Mardi Grass parade in New Orleans, America's most musical city, and on…
In the spring of 1990, environmentalists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney survived a bombing attack while driving their car…
Niko von Glasow was born disabled due to the side effects of the drug thalidomide. So were the eleven people he finds t…
My Thai Bride is a documentary film exploring the power of money to save and destroy – and the harm that ensues when pe…
The film presents the life and work of two sisters Grażyna and Violetta, who run a center for homeless men. The heart a…
Filmed over seven years, Drawing The Tiger is a intimate portrait of a family in rural Nepal who get a chance to break …
A rollerblading documentary by Witalis Szumilo Kulczycki about Polish rollerbladers who went to UK in search of better …
India’s invisible majority are poor yet literate in their own traditions and increasingly online. Ocean in a Drop is a …
Every year, thousands of people slip through the net of social care provision into a dark, lonely and often dangerous u…
Exodus documents the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. Over th…
'UDITA' follows a turbulent half decade in the lives of women on the front line in the garment workers struggle. From 2…
Tong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with…
Lovebirds are young rebel lovers that risk their life just to stay together. They escape their families and persecution…
TOUMAST – GUITARS AND KALASHNIKOVS retraces a part of recent history of the Tuaregs. Theirs is a fragmented history mad…
Three Central American migrants embark on a journey to the north. Seeking safety and a better life, they find the will,…
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striv…
Khadija, an extraordinary wedding videographer and young divorced mother in Morocco, moves back and forth from her conf…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
A day in the life of Tatyana Prokopenko, a courageous woman from Mailuu-Suu, an all-but ghost town in the former Soviet…
In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nun…
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
This is a film portrait of a Latvian woman named Santa Claus, who shares her apartment with 33 animals: seven dogs, six…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
Covering a span of 35 years in the life of Honza, a man born “on camera” in 1974. This film shows not only the life of …
PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, …
Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at hear…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
The young Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country's traditions, fear a…
Daniel is a young man. Daniel is a student and a writer. Daniel is also a pedophile. He is in love and keeps no secret …
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 …
No one took much notice of Bugarach until a news story appears. It alleges that, when the Mayan apocalypse hits, Bugara…
A dive to five hundred meters below sea level following the only woman among the miners of the last coal mine in Italy.
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