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…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
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…
Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
José and Citlalli, an indigenous couple in Ecuador, begin to question their family's identity when they find out they a…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
In Mexico City, 9 out of 10 women have been victims of sexual violence during their journeys in the public transportati…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
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 interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
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…
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
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…
This classic documents the life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of s…
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
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