Two sisters talk over the internet after the recent death of their father. As one of them remains in Brasil and the oth…
An atmospheric portrait of Port Nolloth, a place that was once a chimera of diamond mining in South Africa and now stru…
A group of scientists make a journey across five continents as they search the sky for clues to the origins and the fut…
A woman runs a shelter for domestic animals in the snowy heights of the city of Rasht, Iran.
A poetic exploration of the eastern Pyrenees in Catalonia, the home of a population of men and women smaller than usual.
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
The journey of a blind guitarist in "pacified" Uganda, counterpointed by testimonies from survivors of Joseph Kony's LR…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
A young man goes through a moment of introspection about the difficult relationship he has with his father, while he wa…
On the eve of the 2012 presidential election in Russia, a cavalry battalion in Moscow prepares to carry out its duties …
After being sold by her family as a child to work as a domestic slave for 12 years, Urmila, a young Nepalese girl, take…
A collage - portrait of the Spanish industrial music band Esplendor Geométrico.
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
In the middle of a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Turkey, three pregnant Kurdish teenagers survive alone …
Since 1905 to approximately 1967, thousands of Australian aboriginal girls who were uprooted from their families were t…
Before 1979, thousands of Israelis lived in Iran with very favorable economic conditions under the protection of the Sh…
Two teenage girls who are best friends and two young brothers grow up surrounded by the cold mountains of Lesotho, a co…
The filmmakers embark on a road trip through Texas in search of the lost images of a utopian commune founded by the Fre…
Rafael is the projectionist of the last adult movie theater in Madrid. He believes that every day he can do his job bet…
This film follows Rafael Correa during an arduous political campaign in his aim to be reelected as president of Ecuador…
Fighting for their right to freedom of movement within their own land, a group of Palestinians challenge their own cult…
Google's project to digitize all the books in the world at the beginning of the 21st century brought enormous consequen…
Director Georg Koszulinski makes a journey to rural Haiti in search of answers about the enigmatic Vodoo religion.
Spanish singer-songwriter Jairo Zavala embarks on a trip from Madrid to Casamance, Senegal, in search of the African so…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
A Paralympic medalist and a quadriplegic man come together to trek thirty-five kilometers over the Tibetan plateau, a c…
A rollerblading documentary by Witalis Szumilo Kulczycki about Polish rollerbladers who went to UK in search of better …
Musician Colin Benders was eighteen years old when he sat down and created his very first music album. As it turned out…
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden bo…
The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a cou…
At first glance, Australians Jock and Dianne Chambers look like an ordinary couple on a trip around India. But their mo…
India’s invisible majority are poor yet literate in their own traditions and increasingly online. Ocean in a Drop is a …
Carolina is 20 and she has Down syndrome. She met documentary director Mariana Viñoles five years ago, and now here the…
Every year, thousands of people slip through the net of social care provision into a dark, lonely and often dangerous u…
Between 1950 and 1966 thousands of men moved up to the Alps in the Valais, a natural landscape of rocks and ice. They b…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
The film tells the story of Marcel Cellier who traveled to Eastern Europe, where he collected and documented sounds tha…
The Train to Moscow chronicles the end of an era and the end of a dream through the eyes of Sauro Ravaglia, an amateur …
Within a year, Neil Platt goes from being a healthy man to becoming completely paralysed from the neck down, thanks to …
Iraq Paper Scissors follows a unique transformation from uniform to pulp, from battlefield to workshop, and from warrio…
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectru…
Exodus documents the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. Over th…
If this were a letter, the return address would be: From the students and teachers of Sita School, Silvepura, Bangalore…
For the past 3 decades, Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre has traveled - by dogsled, skis and kayak - more than 15,000 miles…
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