Activist Jonathan Katz fervently campaigns for Bernie Sanders in the Midwest, only to have his convictions tested and t…
This is an intimate film, that explores the Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly's life, revealing his unique approach to m…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
Have you ever heard of cumbia music? This exciting road movie follows a group of filmmakers and musicians as they trave…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
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