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…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
From his delicate architectural eye, filmmaker Karl-Heinz Klopf makes a contemplative observation of architect Andra Ma…
José and Citlalli, an indigenous couple in Ecuador, begin to question their family's identity when they find out they a…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
South of Buenos Aires, in a coastal city, there is a public school in the middle of a forest, where its students have a…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
During the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile, a women's movement took to the streets to protest against the regime for …
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
This film essay presents five different atmospheres and stories in a planet that is torn between decadence and resistan…
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
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Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. …
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
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Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
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