For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
In the fast-paced style of those TV documentaries we all love, this film is a gripping expedition to the Chernobyl Excl…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
This educational short film is an inspiring portrait of resilience and collaborative community work through the experie…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
Visually powerful, this film essay discusses intimate and collective memory through the underwater images of the flagsh…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
Multidisciplinary artist Tanja Deman takes us on a contemplative film essay on the Adriatic Sea to reflect on the clima…
Only documentary filmmaking can give us a frank and warm portrait like this one, the one that the director Marcelo Diaz…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
This animated short film illustrates the adventure of Lino, an Italian partisan and his companions in their attempt to …
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
Be ready to watch this unique, stop-motion animation entirely filmed in a municipal dump in Croatia!
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
How could an ordinary man become the only known Soviet spy to have infiltrated the CIA during the Cold War? This is the…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
This is a jazz documentary like no other. Preserved by the Library of Congress, this vintage film documents the unforge…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
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