This episode of UN In Action shows how a new invention in Africa can turn Methane released from cow dung into gas for c…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tries to protect refugees worldwide. In Japan, not all immigrants are recognized as refug…
This episode of the UN In Action shows how through women's empowerment the Fund for Agricultural Development helps coas…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
Did you know that more than a third of homeless youth in the United States belong to the LGBT community? This short fil…
A young girl returns home after from a Youth Educational Center in Lodz. On the eve of her 18th birthday, the fears tha…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
The majority of people in Tbilisi, Georgia, don't own cars but pedestrians are never given priority on the streets. Thi…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Oh! the famous American Delis, the ones we have always seen in films and pictures. This documentary takes a look at the…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
The Israeli filmmaker Tommer Heymann uses his video camera to document the relationship he has with his mother, a daugh…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Daniel is a young man. Daniel is a student and a writer. Daniel is also a pedophile. He is in love and keeps no secret …
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
What happens if one crime is committed to prevent another? This documentary shows us how environmentalist Ken Ward is w…
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