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…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
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