Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Short and powerful, like his famous portrait "The Scream" this is a brief biography of Edward Munch, the revolutionary …
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
Twenty years after World War II, Norway is once again living in fear after a series of terrorist attacks. It is 1965 an…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
This documentary follows the hectic daily life of a pediatric physiatrist responsible for the air medical urgency on wh…
Filmed in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
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