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…
As a singer, conductor and performance artist, Barbara Hannigan has left an imprint on the academic musical internation…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
In post-revolution Tunisia, this captivating documentary offers a poetic exploration of a nation's journey from dictato…
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…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
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…
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…
Kids and Music is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together childr…
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 …
Filmed in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
In this documentary, Cristóbal Jodorowski takes us into the world of psycoshamanism, a new current of healing that mixe…
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
During the 2022 Russian occupation of Chernobyl, a local informant secretly films the troops while workers share their …
Through the lens of a dedicated shamshal player, Seven Zagros Symphonies dives into the philosophy behind the seven mus…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
Composed of black and white still pictures, in this short film Hanne tells us how life goes on after losing her sister …
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Through exclusive interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, this documentary tells the story of the first image captured of …
A daughter's directorial lens captures her family's journey through the silent passage of trauma across three generatio…
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