Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
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…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
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…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
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 …
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
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…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores a singing tradition of mysterious power called the R…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
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