This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
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Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
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The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
This episode of UN in action nos muestra cómo los integrantes de una escuela primaria en Kenya aprenden a sembrar y cui…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Farmers in Nepal are the worst affected by climate change as most of them are forced to migrate to other countries to s…
Pablo Lecuona, an Argentinian with visual disability, introduces us to a digital library that has adapted hundreds of t…
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
This episode of UN in action shows us the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been helping stabilise the country…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
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