Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
In their struggle to defend their human rights, the African street vendors who work in the streets of Barcelona underta…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
The film documents the life aboard the ship Nicolai Pirogov, a floating hospital with the mission to bring medical atte…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
An anonymous man explores the Mojave Desert in search of water stagnations around the abandoned buildings of a failed h…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
When a film roll gets damaged in the middle of a screening, a projectionist and a young apprentice must repair it quick…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
A young girl returns home after from a Youth Educational Center in Lodz. On the eve of her 18th birthday, the fears tha…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
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