This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
No one took much notice of Bugarach until a news story appears. It alleges that, when the Mayan apocalypse hits, Bugara…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
In an old underage prison in Mexico, a video and photography workshop brings out the infinite creativity of a group of …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
The move from elementary school to high school is tense for any child. But most children only have to leave behind the …
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Freely inspired by a script that filmmaker Federico Fellini never filmed, this documentary portrays the journey of two …
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
Lilly is nine years old and lives with her mother and brothers Robbin and Melvin in a squatter community deep in the wo…
A Chinese businessman promises a large investment project in the small municipality of Kalmar, in Sweden. A humorous do…
An observational film about how life moves on a bicycle path in Latvia named after Alfred Rubiks, a former communist pr…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
POSTER GIRL is the story of Robynn Murray, an all-American Apple pie high-school cheerleader turned tough-as-nails mach…
The acclaimed animator and filmmaker Jimmy Murakami returns to the concentration camp where he was held as a child alon…
TOUMAST – GUITARS AND KALASHNIKOVS retraces a part of recent history of the Tuaregs. Theirs is a fragmented history mad…
In Matejevac, a small town in southern Serbia, there are 300 unmarried men, nearly a third of the male population. Ther…
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
Black Sun is a documentary based on the life of filmmaker and painter Hugues de Montalembert who was violently attacked…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
This is the first episode of the epic saga commissioned by the United States government during World War II, directed b…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
On the south face of Annapurna, at 7,400 metres, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza is dying. His rope companion sounds the alarm. And…
American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) lived and ran with the Tarahumara Indians…
MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning poi…
Connie Corcoran has dedicated his life to the mighty Blackwater River and, over the years, its currents have shaped him…
Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business ca…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
The Successor follows a former manufacturer of landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a journey where he will have the …
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Activist Jonathan Katz fervently campaigns for Bernie Sanders in the Midwest, only to have his convictions tested and t…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
In this film we follow the Musical Director of the Paris Opera and the Paris Opera Orchestra during rehearsals for usta…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
‘Kookaburra Love’ is a poetic documentary directed by Sjoerd Oostrik. Against a backdrop of disturbing images the viewe…
Spanish singer-songwriter Jairo Zavala embarks on a trip from Madrid to Casamance, Senegal, in search of the African so…
Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
The film depicts the aspirations and anxieties of a young Algerian smuggler transporting fuel by mule, from his village…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
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