A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
With open doors to their intimate lives and precious childhood memories, this documentary follows Jack and Yaya, two ol…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
This film reflects on the relationship between human beings and the locusts, insects that represent one of the biggest …
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
A piglet named Caesar lives a happy life with a loving owner, which is very different from other piglets’ lives. But do…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
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…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
What happens if one crime is committed to prevent another? This documentary shows us how environmentalist Ken Ward is w…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
Are you ready for a fascinating tour around the Melbourne underground music scene? You will not regret it.
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
After being sentenced for murder, a young South African gets his life back through boxing.
Hokman Joma, a Kurdish refugee, is arrested and sentenced for the throwing of a shoe to Turkish President in the city o…
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
Set amidst the rugged mountains of Northern California, The End Of Weed is a short homage to a passing California way o…
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
Trapped in a gray and monotonous country, a girl dares to think of crossing the wall that separates her from what is ou…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
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