In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
This episode of UN in action nos muestra cómo los integrantes de una escuela primaria en Kenya aprenden a sembrar y cui…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
Farmers in Nepal are the worst affected by climate change as most of them are forced to migrate to other countries to s…
Pablo Lecuona, an Argentinian with visual disability, introduces us to a digital library that has adapted hundreds of t…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
This episode of UN in action shows us the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been helping stabilise the country…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
This short documentary shows those who visit the largest public park in southern Calcutta, India. In a society where th…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
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