This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Trapped in an Indian society that does not accept their relationship, two young lesbian women commit suicide in Nandigr…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This episode of UN in Action portrays how climate change has forced communities in Madagascar to seek better opportunit…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
New York 2001, Bagdad 2003, Algeria 2007, Uganda 2010 are dates remembered by victims of terrorism worldwide. This epis…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
In case you didn't know, we are in a global water crisis. The UN launched a program to accelerate efforts towards meeti…
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
In the midst of an unstable political and social situation, a contingent of female UN peacekeepers helps solve the prob…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
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