A humble family lives inside an unfinished residential building in Bogotá. On the outside, there seems to be no life, b…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
Director Orban Wallace addresses the issue of the refugee crisis in Europe from an unexpected perspective: How this cri…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
In post-independent Lithuania, the intertwined lives of a wedding musician, a mute black flower deliverer, and an uncon…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
A Cuban-born balloon seller dreams of mastering magic, questioning his place in the world amid his underground journeys.
Identical twins, celebrated photographer Joel-Peter and painter Jerome, diverge in art and life, with their shared hist…
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
This captivating documentary delves into Enrique Metinides' fixation with death, tracing his journey from child photogr…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
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