With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
This animated experimental short film discourses on how containerization is shaping the world as we know it today.
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
Loved and hated, Arthur Chu tries to reinvent his life after his controversial participation in "Jeopardy!", the TV sho…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
Filmed over the course of five years, this audacious documentary unravels the case of Victor Pearson, alias Kano, an Am…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
Set in the majestic mountains of Taiwan, this documentary relies on extensive archival and testimonial material to tell…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
Joanna is a film by Aneta Kopacz about Joanna Salyga, a young woman with cancer with only three months to live, and her…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
Trapped at sea when the Covid-19 pandemic breaks out all over the world, a small crew of people aboard a sailboat must …
Golos is a collection of stories told by, and about the people of Ukraine; exploring from a unique perspective the natu…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
This is the story of Gan HaShlosha, better known as the “Sakhne”, one of the largest, most famous and most visited park…
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 documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
Amanda and Viengsay, two young Cuban women, strive every day to continue their careers in the demanding world of ballet…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan …
Kids and Music is a project arising from a music class. Conducted by Joan Chamorro, the big band brings together childr…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
An old woman from Mong Htet, in northern Shan State in Myanmar, looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her …
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