Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
As a singer, conductor and performance artist, Barbara Hannigan has left an imprint on the academic musical internation…
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
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…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
This is a jazz documentary like no other. Preserved by the Library of Congress, this vintage film documents the unforge…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
In just fifteen minutes, this documentary dissects the American male stereotype through the art of Aaron Ray, a drag pe…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
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