With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectru…
A look at four barbershops located in Raval, a neighborhood in Barcelona’s old town. These four small businesses of for…
This short documentary follows Geoffrey, a lonely octogenarian, as he finds a new life inside a macabre cabaret-theatre…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
When A Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the family …
The co-director of this film returns to the humble home of his family in Algeria after 10 years of absence, a reunion t…
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
In a world where pollution is already a commodity, this fascinating financial thriller reveals the cracks in the tradin…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
With the beautifully photographed urban world of Dublin as a backdrop, this film reflects on the evolution of Skateboar…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
Pauls Planet is a portrait of the musician, singer and songwriter, Paul Fuster, who made a cycling tour around Cataloni…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Trapped in an Indian society that does not accept their relationship, two young lesbian women commit suicide in Nandigr…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
One man and his family-run TV station have become a relentless voice against corruption and organised crime in Sicily. …
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
As industrial towns in the United States go into decline, a community in Detroit shows that it is possible to promote u…
President Wanted shows the behind the scenes of the candidates running for the first direct presidential election in th…
Albert Casals is a young man who has been in a wheelchair since suffering leukemia at the tender age of five. But this …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
Premiered at IDFA, this documentary follows the struggle of Palestinian teenage boys trying to get back to life outside…
Set against a backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation, and apocalyptic fear, the film is an unnerving exploration o…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
Three stories from Sierra Maestra, Cuba, unravel on the day of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. What will the li…
A ferry makes its way through the ice that floats somewhere in the Baltic Sea in the middle of a calm, dark night. Insi…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
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