Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This episode of UN In Action shows how the United Nations and the World Health Organization and specialists in the Cong…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores a singing tradition of mysterious power called the R…
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
A specific geographical point, a house on a street in Belgium, is the starting point to rescue memories and reflections…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
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