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…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
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