It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
A portrait of Paulo, a flight attendant who in the after-hours world is internationally known for personifying Gazelle,…
Musician and singer from London Wayne Paul returns to the East London neighborhood where he grew up, a place where a vi…
A look at four barbershops located in Raval, a neighborhood in Barcelona’s old town. These four small businesses of for…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
Seeking a better future in Germany, a young Iranian filmmaker must separate from his girlfriend in his native country. …
The journey of a blind guitarist in "pacified" Uganda, counterpointed by testimonies from survivors of Joseph Kony's LR…
The acclaimed animator and filmmaker Jimmy Murakami returns to the concentration camp where he was held as a child alon…
Financial difficulties threaten the continuity of the school founded in Beirut by the father of Lebanese director Nadin…
The visits to his homes in Italy and France become rich occasions for director Patricia Pereyra to interview the renown…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
A film in which the universal language of music can promote tolerance and social harmony.
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
When a film roll gets damaged in the middle of a screening, a projectionist and a young apprentice must repair it quick…
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
The portrait of Yvonne Robert, a ninety-year-old woman with immeasurable wisdom who poured into naive painting all the …
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
On the eve of the 2012 presidential election in Russia, a cavalry battalion in Moscow prepares to carry out its duties …
In order to release a documentary that unveils the implementation of banned pesticides in banana plantations in Central…
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
In the middle of a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Turkey, three pregnant Kurdish teenagers survive alone …
Two teenage girls who are best friends and two young brothers grow up surrounded by the cold mountains of Lesotho, a co…
The filmmakers embark on a road trip through Texas in search of the lost images of a utopian commune founded by the Fre…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
In 1950, Frans Swinkels and his friend Broer left their native Dutch village to embark on a bicycle trip to Rome. 60 ye…
Before 1979, thousands of Israelis lived in Iran with very favorable economic conditions under the protection of the Sh…
Tova does not believe in love but exercises her matchmaker job with an admirable passion. Diagnosed with muscular dystr…
A grandmother and her grandson struggle to save the photo shop that both operate in Tel Aviv, a place that houses a uni…
Rafael is the projectionist of the last adult movie theater in Madrid. He believes that every day he can do his job bet…
In a world where humans are cataloged either as men or women, three characters explore the limits of gender and sexuali…
In a world where pollution is already a commodity, this fascinating financial thriller reveals the cracks in the tradin…
An inspiring documentary about a group of South Asian women living in Calgary, Canada, who promote women's rights from …
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
Director Georg Koszulinski makes a journey to rural Haiti in search of answers about the enigmatic Vodoo religion.
Spanish singer-songwriter Jairo Zavala embarks on a trip from Madrid to Casamance, Senegal, in search of the African so…
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
An observational film about how life moves on a bicycle path in Latvia named after Alfred Rubiks, a former communist pr…
After forging a strong and close relationship throughout their life, two sisters face the unveiling of a past that had …
Filmed over the course of five years, this audacious documentary unravels the case of Victor Pearson, alias Kano, an Am…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
A cinematic poem about Belen Palacios, a peasant, social leader and renowned Quitiplá musician, an African-Venezuelan r…
A Paralympic medalist and a quadriplegic man come together to trek thirty-five kilometers over the Tibetan plateau, a c…
After 30 years of being out of his country, Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid returns to Baghdad on the eve of the American to…
My Thai Bride is a documentary film exploring the power of money to save and destroy – and the harm that ensues when pe…
The film presents the life and work of two sisters Grażyna and Violetta, who run a center for homeless men. The heart a…
Directors Sam De Jong and Sjoerd Oostrik follow three youngsters immersed in the urban environment during the particula…
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