Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Trapped in an Indian society that does not accept their relationship, two young lesbian women commit suicide in Nandigr…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
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…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
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 filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This episode of UN in Action portrays how climate change has forced communities in Madagascar to seek better opportunit…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
New York 2001, Bagdad 2003, Algeria 2007, Uganda 2010 are dates remembered by victims of terrorism worldwide. This epis…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
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…
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
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…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
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