After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
This episode of UN in action nos muestra cómo los integrantes de una escuela primaria en Kenya aprenden a sembrar y cui…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
After having studied together at the University of Toulouse several years ago a Nigerian man and a French man meet once…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
In the midst of the calm and minimalism of an African rural landscape, the days of a young volunteer aid-worker go by t…
Amidst the backdrop of political tension and personal rebellion, two brothers from the West Bank find themselves worlds…
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
In New Zealand, three people seek answers about life on earth through extraordinary experiments, such as the constructi…
The film takes place in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. Forced to join the Palestinian Liberation Army, …
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
In a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia, a man planted the flag of the fictional country called "Liberland".…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
The majority of people in Tbilisi, Georgia, don't own cars but pedestrians are never given priority on the streets. Thi…
A dizzying film that documents ten years of the zigzagging career of the Australian rock band Screwtop Detonators.
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
New York in Motion is a celebrated 60 minute documentary about the state of the art of Motion Graphics in New York. It …
Amidst escalating threats and societal uproar, a brave Muslim woman relentlessly pursues justice, advocating for a prog…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
The young Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country's traditions, fear a…
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
Pedagogical and inspiring, this documentary follows the life and work of Indian Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, one of the …
This captivating documentary explores the simple yet profound lives of a group of friends in rural Northeast Thailand, …
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
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