This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
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