Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
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