Looking for the meaning of life, a filmmaker travels to Tokyo and discovers 63-year-old Yamada-San, an irreverent chara…
A filmmaker is stranded at the airport in Dakkar, Senegal. In this short film, she launches images of this journey spun…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
Welcome to the Explorer. By playing this documentary you will become a silent crew member of this container ship on its…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
This trip is difficult to explain in words. Literally! This film follows two Berlin friends on their trip to Japan. But…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
Trapped in a gray and monotonous country, a girl dares to think of crossing the wall that separates her from what is ou…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
In this drone film, the filmmaker Thomas Vital makes a breathtaking visual contemplation on the majestic geography of t…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
American Loneliness tells the story of filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay’s solitary journey into one of the most attractive area…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
This gripping film follows the last log floater on the river Tara in Montenegro, a wild and very dangerous river.
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
This documentary takes us on a train on the trans-siberian railway, a distance of 10,000 kilometers where we meet passe…
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
A collection of amateur films about people going to the beach on holidays allows director Ermanno Cavazzoni to reflect …
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Confronted with the idea of getting married after several years of being a couple, two intrepid travelers visit four ma…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
A ferry makes its way through the ice that floats somewhere in the Baltic Sea in the middle of a calm, dark night. Insi…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
A Uruguayan Navy vessel crosses the southern Atlantic Ocean towards Antarctica to supply a military base. A sensory jou…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
Shih captures the return of Paola Shih to Taiwan to meet with her father after twenty years of separation. Following Pa…
The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a cou…
At first glance, Australians Jock and Dianne Chambers look like an ordinary couple on a trip around India. But their mo…
When A Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the family …
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