Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
After the murder of a Buddhist art teacher in southern Thailand, three filmmakers make a journey through the region to …
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
Shortly after Trump was elected president, an Indian immigrant is killed in a hate crime in Kansas. His widow carries t…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
After losing her sight due to the war, Hada, a young Palestinian refugee, manages to continue her education despite her…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
In 2019, for the first time in history Mozambique suffered the onslaught of two cyclones in a row. This episode of UN I…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
The story of Malakeh, a Syria woman who emigrated with her family to Germany, is that of millions of refugees now start…
In this episode of UN In Action, watch a day in the life of Afghan deminers who safeguard people from accidents, while …
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This episode of UN In Action addresses the famine situation in South Sudan, a hostile territory for organizations like …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
In this episode of UN In Action, scientists at the National Museum of History in Albania are using a non-destructive me…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
In this Un In Action, a UN program helps bring ambient temperatures down in New York by episode painting roofs white wi…
This episode of UN In Action is a gaze at Uganda, where the funding shortfall is significantly impacting the ability to…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
In this episode of UN In Action, two women fight for sustainable policies that prevent consequences for climate change …
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
This episode of UN In Action shows how a new invention in Africa can turn Methane released from cow dung into gas for c…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
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