A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
Ten minutes in the atelier of a painter is just enough time for a dance of drawn objects to invade the entire screen. A…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
In Orleans, France, the inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. T…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
Are we losing our sense of community in an increasingly unsustainable world? In this film, a small community in Austral…
Set amidst the rugged mountains of Northern California, The End Of Weed is a short homage to a passing California way o…
This classic documents the life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of s…
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
50 years after the death of poet Roald Mandelshtam, director Maxim Yakubson unearths the life of the artists a document…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
Confronted with the evidence that the Earth is not eternal, Ernesto is inspired by the Metatron's shape to design his o…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
Avant Garde filmmaker Kamal Swaroop explores the ancient myths and politicking of Indian Gods as the heavens descend an…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores a singing tradition of mysterious power called the R…
While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
Shot during the dusk for two months in a row, in this film a disciple documents the daily life of his irreverent film p…
With the help of a legendary recruiter, the Dudley United Footbal Club, an Australian football team of the small Kangar…
After being sentenced for murder, a young South African gets his life back through boxing.
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
In this beautifully photographed documentary, the inhabitants that live on the banks of an Indian river show us their p…
Set against a backdrop of hurricanes, coastal devastation, and apocalyptic fear, the film is an unnerving exploration o…
In a house located in a peaceful village in Croatia, eight underage girls try to improve their lives by living together…
The film follows four young Brazilians around their humble neighborhood where they live between work and fun, crime and…
In a family of women, the corners of an old house are witnesses of the course of life. The older women go through the l…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
This funny animation takes us through the diverse voices that make up the Bronx through the music and the street object…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
Three stories from Sierra Maestra, Cuba, unravel on the day of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. What will the li…
This is the tale of what happened to the Americanized Children of Holocaust survivors. The film includes the testimonie…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
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