Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
Descendant of Italian mobster, party man, maker of costumes and shows of all kinds, this documentary also shows another…
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
Two actors in Kosovo dream of a visa to be able to emigrate and have a better future. But without a visa, they both dec…
This experimental short film reflects on the points of view that exist on reality through a kind of "guided tour" by a …
The last episode in the Why We Fight saga focuses on the United States' decision to intervene in the resistance to the …
The sixth film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga introduced US soldiers and audiences to Japan's invasion of China and…
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
The first of two parts of the film that explains the Russian resistance to the Nazi invasion during WWII. The fifth ins…
A filmmaker and his childhood friends in Assam, India, explore performative games to resurface personal memories of wha…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
The second episode of Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga. Seen from the American government propaganda, Nazi Germany is pr…
This is the first episode of the epic saga commissioned by the United States government during World War II, directed b…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
In this particular western, director Julian T. Pinder reveals the consequences on the health and the environment posed …
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
This episode of UN In Action takes us to New York, where the United Nations promotes urban farming as a sustainable way…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow the Somali police force in their attempt to eradicate the contamination of ex…
In search of a lost lover, a woman retraces the steps of her latest love affair in the streets of Salamanca ... through…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
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