Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
Malek, a Tunisian girl, wants to be a professional fencer when she grows up. Along with her best friend, Malek strives …
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
A compelling exploration of African resilience, tradition, and pride set against the vivid tableau of the Omo Valley, t…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
Hilarious, shocking and informative at the same time, this bold documentary takes a historical look back at sex educati…
Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana's tumultuous life, forming the acrostic "PERU," is unraveled like a puzzle, weaving to…
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
Through the observation of three apes, filmmaker Jos de Putter encourages a reflection on the similarities between us a…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
The pioneer of documentary photography Saul Leiter invites us to his department in New York City to reflect on his care…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This film is a unique view from within the most massive, longest, and politically significant student protest in Croati…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
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