This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …
After losing her sight due to the war, Hada, a young Palestinian refugee, manages to continue her education despite her…
Balcon De Europa is a tourist place in the coastal town of Nerja, Spain. This documentary is a discreet gaze at this vi…
This short documentary follows the rock music producer Jia Qu in his challenge to promote the genre in the youth scene …
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
Visually powerful, this film essay discusses intimate and collective memory through the underwater images of the flagsh…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
India’s invisible majority are poor yet literate in their own traditions and increasingly online. Ocean in a Drop is a …
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
For the past 3 decades, Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre has traveled - by dogsled, skis and kayak - more than 15,000 miles…
Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at hear…
Musician and singer from London Wayne Paul returns to the East London neighborhood where he grew up, a place where a vi…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
The documentary feature explores the world of girls and teenagers on their path to become successful actresses in the H…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Vaclav Havel is the father of modern democracy in the post-Soviet Czech Republic. This biographical documentary offers …
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
In what could be an undiscovered recent cult film, this satirical documentary tells the story of an ordinary and unknow…
After having been part of the Black Panther Party in Kansas City during the 60s, Pete O'Neal had to go into exile in Ta…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
The last episode in the Why We Fight saga focuses on the United States' decision to intervene in the resistance to the …
This propaganda film commissioned by the United States government was shown to the troops that would occupy Germany jus…
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
Short musical film about one of the greatest violinist in Europe, Lajko Felix. This is a story about his journey throu…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
This short film is a gaze at the severe drought crisis in Somalia of 2017, where the UN tries to help the population th…
This episode of UN In Action is a gaze at Uganda, where the funding shortfall is significantly impacting the ability to…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
In this classic of the late forties, the director Sydney Meyers captures the harsh life of a black boy from Harlem that…
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