A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
In the midst of an unstable political and social situation, a contingent of female UN peacekeepers helps solve the prob…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
In 2019, for the first time in history Mozambique suffered the onslaught of two cyclones in a row. This episode of UN I…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
The story of Malakeh, a Syria woman who emigrated with her family to Germany, is that of millions of refugees now start…
In this episode of UN In Action, watch a day in the life of Afghan deminers who safeguard people from accidents, while …
The paths of a turtle from Syria and a soldier from Germany cross in this curious film about war and the relationship b…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
In this Un In Action, a UN program helps bring ambient temperatures down in New York by episode painting roofs white wi…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
In this episode of UN In Action, two women fight for sustainable policies that prevent consequences for climate change …
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
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