Discover the untold story of The Backstreet Boys, the world's biggest boy band, as they navigate two decades of fame, f…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s white South African family tr…
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
Trapped in a gray and monotonous country, a girl dares to think of crossing the wall that separates her from what is ou…
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
When they stop receiving their salaries after the economic collapse of a maritime company, 320 seamen in Grece embark o…
In September 2021, 1500 white-sided dolphins were slaughtered in Skálabotnur. This documentary navigates both waters to…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
This HBO documentary film explores the issue of domestic violence and its impact on survivors. The film follows the sto…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
Have you ever heard of cumbia music? This exciting road movie follows a group of filmmakers and musicians as they trave…
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this documentary sheds light on one of the most tumultuous times in Chile’s history and t…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
Photographs, travel videos, a female voice-over. Filmmaker Nora Särak creates a colorful and fresh collage to talk abou…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
Former Yugoslav territories, 1980s - 1990s. Time of abrupt political changes and war. Behind all this there was a sound…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
Grandma has died but left a diary. The last time she wrote, it was the day before her death. How much can we learn abou…
Set somewhere in México, in this short film ancient spaces apparently dynamited by time appear in front of us. Unexpect…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
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