The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Several years after being separated by prison, Louis and Annette revisit the memories and places that challenged their …
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
A survivor of sexual violence herself, Tatiana Mukanire uses music therapy to help other survivors. This is her story a…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia 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…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
This episode of UN In Action shows how the United Nations and the World Health Organization and specialists in the Cong…
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
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