This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
According to statistics, 95% of all incarcerated people will come home. Director Tamara Perkins follows three men in th…
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
With exclusive film footage of the era, this documentary brings to life the famous Pebble Beach Road Races of the 1950s…
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…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
In this experimental short, Ana and a group of young people in a park have a lot to tell us about voyeurism, human conn…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
Welcome to the Explorer. By playing this documentary you will become a silent crew member of this container ship on its…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
Photographs, travel videos, a female voice-over. Filmmaker Nora Särak creates a colorful and fresh collage to talk abou…
Several years after being separated by prison, Louis and Annette revisit the memories and places that challenged their …
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
In the best style of the ethnographic photographers of the last century, this film shot in 16mm presents a lyrical albu…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
Skateboarding in a socialist country has its virtues. This must-see documentary for fans of the sport retraces the orig…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
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