Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
This experimental short film reflects on the points of view that exist on reality through a kind of "guided tour" by a …
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
Daniel MacNee can't remember what the weather was like yesterday. Nor can he remember his own past. Since a devastating…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
This is a film portrait of a Latvian woman named Santa Claus, who shares her apartment with 33 animals: seven dogs, six…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
A music documentary about the punk band Hamac Cazíim, who come from an remote region of northern Mexico, fusing the mod…
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
Through a meticulous investigation, this film documents the struggle of a small coastal community of Ireland against th…
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
In the early hours of the first day of the New Year, the camera takes to the streets of Santiago, Chile, in search of t…
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
This Documentary explores the inspiring story of Sergio Cezar, whose inventive artwork breathes new life into discarded…
Unveiling echoes of the past, this documentary bridges the lived experiences of the 1918 flu pandemic survivors with to…
The Israeli filmmaker Tommer Heymann uses his video camera to document the relationship he has with his mother, a daugh…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
Explore the way Parkour and Freerunning is changing the perception of urban space and how the spaces and buildings they…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
In this Experimental Documentary, siblings Alexandre and Jeanne confront their haunting past and the trials of emigrati…
Seven LGBTQ seniors in Los Angeles contend with uncertainty and hope as they seek a home in the nation's first affordab…
The journey of a young Indian woman's hair, donated to the Temple to be then converted into exquisite hair extensions i…
Moon is a ten-year-old girl. She writes books about a world where children can transform into animals and where magic a…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
The story of the world's greatest hoaxer. An unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of Alan Abel, the n…
Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop Idol has come to Afghanistan. This timely film follows the dramatic stories…
In the region of Rajasthan, India, naturalist Gerhard Weihan takes up the challenge of raising and reinserting a small …
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