This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
In case you didn't know, we are in a global water crisis. The UN launched a program to accelerate efforts towards meeti…
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…
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…
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…
After the murder of a Buddhist art teacher in southern Thailand, three filmmakers make a journey through the region to …
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
After losing her sight due to the war, Hada, a young Palestinian refugee, manages to continue her education despite her…
In 2019, for the first time in history Mozambique suffered the onslaught of two cyclones in a row. This episode of UN I…
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 …
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This episode of UN In Action addresses the famine situation in South Sudan, a hostile territory for organizations like …
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
In this episode of UN In Action, scientists at the National Museum of History in Albania are using a non-destructive me…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
This episode of UN In Action is a gaze at Uganda, where the funding shortfall is significantly impacting the ability to…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
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 …
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
In Mexico City, 9 out of 10 women have been victims of sexual violence during their journeys in the public transportati…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tries to protect refugees worldwide. In Japan, not all immigrants are recognized as refug…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Did you know that more than a third of homeless youth in the United States belong to the LGBT community? This short fil…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
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