While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
One of the ways we can stop climate change is to recycle wood. This documentary introduces us to the revolutionary urba…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
At a rural school in South Korea, a youth archery team prepares to make history at the inter-school championship.
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
After beating cancer, Sean Swarner takes on a major life challenge: conquering the North Pole and definitely becoming a…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
Loved and hated, Arthur Chu tries to reinvent his life after his controversial participation in "Jeopardy!", the TV sho…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
This short film follows Floh, a passionate Belgian accordionist that expresses her rebellious spirit through her songs.
With a strong militant signature, this film documents the struggle of the defenders of the last independent cinema of I…
The film presents the life and work of two sisters Grażyna and Violetta, who run a center for homeless men. The heart a…
The journey of a blind guitarist in "pacified" Uganda, counterpointed by testimonies from survivors of Joseph Kony's LR…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
A musical stands as the best cinematic genre to express the historical conflict that vibrates beneath the epidermis of …
The film is an unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship between the filmmaker Nada Riyadhin and a young …
South of Buenos Aires, in a coastal city, there is a public school in the middle of a forest, where its students have a…
Set in an isolated “jungle” in Calais, Transit Zone follows Teefa, a young man who fled the regime in Sudan with big dr…
A young Chinese entrepreneur decides to spend a weekend in a new apartment in the city of Kadakaisi, a replica of the C…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
Are we losing our sense of community in an increasingly unsustainable world? In this film, a small community in Austral…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
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