Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
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…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
Using footage filmed by intrepid cameramen, in the middle of the firing line in battle, this propaganda film documents …
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
The second of two parts of the film that explains the Russian resistance to the Nazi invasion during WWII. The fifth in…
The first of two parts of the film that explains the Russian resistance to the Nazi invasion during WWII. The fifth ins…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
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…
In the third installment of the Why We Fight series, director Frank Capra describes Hitler's deceptive strategy to conq…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
The second episode of Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga. Seen from the American government propaganda, Nazi Germany is pr…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
Four social workers in Argentina are available 24/7 to assist abused women through a telephone line that can make the d…
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
An exploration into the family past pushes a young Argentinean on a revealing journey in which he discovers that his gr…
This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
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…
This episode of UN In Action shows how the United Nations and the World Health Organization and specialists in the Cong…
Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
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 …
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
In this episode of UN In Action, activist Haha Dukureh makes visible the fight of millions of women in Africa against f…
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