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…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
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 …
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
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.
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…
In Manchester's evolving landscape, the dreams of its diverse populace clash and intertwine with the ambitions of tower…
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…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
As the multiracial population increases in North America, mixed race blood cancer patients face the challenge of findin…
Through an educational approach, The Brave Class explores the dilemma of human language as a vital factor to construct …
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
Amidst the quiet corridors of a bustling Cape Town mortuary, experience the untold stories of three forensic pathology …
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
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