A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
This documentary makes the curious portrait of Dorian, a prominent musician that has a feral cat colony in the tunnels …
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
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…
Oh! the famous American Delis, the ones we have always seen in films and pictures. This documentary takes a look at the…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
Discover how two panda cubs became ambassadors for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
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…
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…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
This is the fascinating portrait of Corradino d’Ascanio, the inventor of the helicopter and the most famous scouter in …
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
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…
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
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…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
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 …
Fall and Winter is an epic and spectacularly photographed journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfo…
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…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Six scenarios play out against the backdrop of modern London, enabling a portrait of human beings as consumers of their…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
Jelle and Sofie, two filmmakers with a decadent love relationship, decide to film themselves during a trip to Greece. T…
This inspiring documentary follows Rina, a young girl from El Salvador who discovers Bici-Tec, a pedal-power technology…
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
This documentary takes us to several countries to show us how Muslim men around the world are challenging the tradition…
This documentary shows the urban transformation in Istanbul through the contrast between a small Shanty and an apartmen…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This animated experimental short film discourses on how containerization is shaping the world as we know it today.
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
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