Composed of black and white still pictures, in this short film Hanne tells us how life goes on after losing her sister …
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
Imagine an endangered species of which only the last pair is left to breed. This film documents the process of saving t…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
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