During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
Inspired by the best-selling book "The Gift", this documentary follows characters from three continents to weave an end…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
Short and powerful, like his famous portrait "The Scream" this is a brief biography of Edward Munch, the revolutionary …
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
Confronted with an alleged true photograph of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, a man begins an incessant investigation t…
A humble family lives inside an unfinished residential building in Bogotá. On the outside, there seems to be no life, b…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
Director Orban Wallace addresses the issue of the refugee crisis in Europe from an unexpected perspective: How this cri…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
This fascinating documentary retraces the contemporary history of language creation for cultural products such as the G…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
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