After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
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…
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…
The story of Malakeh, a Syria woman who emigrated with her family to Germany, is that of millions of refugees now start…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
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 film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
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…
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…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
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…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
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…
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…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
This short film is a gaze at the severe drought crisis in Somalia of 2017, where the UN tries to help the population th…
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
Discover how two panda cubs became ambassadors for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
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…
In this intimate documentary, a young film student faces a doubt, whether to continue in her profession or devote herse…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
This short film follows Floh, a passionate Belgian accordionist that expresses her rebellious spirit through her songs.
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
Best Documentary Films
