The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
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…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
Shortly after Trump was elected president, an Indian immigrant is killed in a hate crime in Kansas. His widow carries t…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
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…
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 …
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
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…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
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…
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…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
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 short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
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 acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This episode of the UN In Action shows how through women's empowerment the Fund for Agricultural Development helps coas…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
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…
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'…
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