In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
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 film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
This short film is a gaze at the severe drought crisis in Somalia of 2017, where the UN tries to help the population th…
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.
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…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
This is the fascinating portrait of Corradino d’Ascanio, the inventor of the helicopter and the most famous scouter in …
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
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…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
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…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
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…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Fall and Winter is an epic and spectacularly photographed journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfo…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
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…
What happens if one crime is committed to prevent another? This documentary shows us how environmentalist Ken Ward is w…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
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