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…
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 …
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
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…
Spanning fifty-four countries through stunning aerial footage, this documentary unveils the interconnectedness of Earth…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
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 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…
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…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
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 …
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, …
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
A religious young man’s identity is called into question when he visits a controversial conversion therapist.
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
Two men seem to be condemned to remain for hours in a small room with no windows. One is a detective, the other one, a …
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
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