While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
An old sailor faces physical and mental decline in his 80s. When a sailor can't go on anymore, he sets out for his fina…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
Two rugby teams from Argentina and Brazil composed of LGBTI players face each other in a match where the triumph goes b…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
This documentary blurs the margins of the artificial and the natural. A museum worker, a deer farmer and a taxidermist …
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
In this experimental short film, a man traverses landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control of natur…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
An eager Cat rescue volunteer travels to the island of Mljet to castrate the local cats. But soon what started out as a…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
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