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…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
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…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
When three young friends set out on a journey they discover being on your own isn’t as easy as it seemed.
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
This gem is the first documentary feature film about Robert Frank, with exclusive access to the places, memories and wo…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
After being suppressed during her childhood, the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni fled to Europe to be a free woman. He…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
A religious young man’s identity is called into question when he visits a controversial conversion therapist.
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