A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
Ready for a trip to the heart of the blues? This 16mm gem features legends such as B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and Evelyn Y…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
In Havana, a former military bunker serves as a meeting place for Cuban gay men. Among shadows and gnawed walls, they t…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
A survivor of sexual violence herself, Tatiana Mukanire uses music therapy to help other survivors. This is her story a…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
With open doors to their intimate lives and precious childhood memories, this documentary follows Jack and Yaya, two ol…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
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