The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
Inside Mediapart's vibrant newsroom, filmmaker Naruna Kaplan de Macedo unearths the hidden intricacies of investigative…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
Father and son travel a long distance from the Czech Republic to a Russian city. So close together but so far away at t…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
This offbeat documentary delves into the legacy of the Danish film adaptation of Knut Hamsun's "Hunger," exploring its …
Is an inspiring journey of transformation and resilience, unfolding the impact of rugby on the lives of six individuals…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
Dive into the heart of soul music with this visually stunning documentary, showcasing thirty years of legendary perform…
In the Bois de Boulogne, transgender prostitutes Mina and Mariana navigate life's complexities, sharing stories and an …
A battle against time and terrain unfolds as an Ethiopian ambulance driver negotiates a treacherous 300-kilometer dirt …
This short film premiered at the Berlinale takes us to the farm of Juan, who has worked in agriculture all his life and…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
In this documentary, a group of lesbian friends find liberation and unity on a remote beach, their bonds deepening thro…
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Set in the majestic mountainous landscape of southern Chile, a wise man isolates himself in this dreamlike place where …
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
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…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
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…
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