The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
Chinese descendants in Serbia may go unnoticed in a rural farm, small retail stores or as employees in a mall. Will the…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
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