How to make another living being happy? And how to do it if that other living being is a turtle? These questions are an…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Golos is a collection of stories told by, and about the people of Ukraine; exploring from a unique perspective the natu…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
A captivating portrait of a remote rural village in Cuba takes place before our eyes. At the same time, a touching dial…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
A collector embarks on a road trip to complete the world's largest collection of nintendo video games.
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
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 fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
This documentary blurs the margins of the artificial and the natural. A museum worker, a deer farmer and a taxidermist …
The young South Korean photographer Haneul Dameun invites us in this documentary to what she calls her "secret garden",…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Four people who have opted for plastic surgery to correct their bodies tell us about this experience in their personal …
An eager Cat rescue volunteer travels to the island of Mljet to castrate the local cats. But soon what started out as a…
Cancer survivor Melanie Griffith narrates this gripping and educational documentary about the invention that could save…
Shot in 16mm in the best style of the informational ethnographic documentaries of the 1980s, this is a portrait of the …
What would it be like to live underwater for an extended period of time? This iconic US Navy institutional film is a th…
A group of HR activists is kidnapped when they try to denounce the Chinese regime during the visit to Serbia of one of …
Set in the majestic mountainous landscape of southern Chile, a wise man isolates himself in this dreamlike place where …
Nostalgic, mysterious, enigmatic. This experimental short film navigates between the idyllic days the filmmaker spent i…
Northwest of Mexico City, there is one of the most biodiverse natural microcosms in Latin America. This is a kaleidosco…
In a small town in Mexico, a doctor goes from house to house healing the sick. All free of charge.
The world knows who Mandela was for South Africa, but we don't know about F.W. de Klerk, the president that ushered in …
One of the ways we can stop climate change is to recycle wood. This documentary introduces us to the revolutionary urba…
At a rural school in South Korea, a youth archery team prepares to make history at the inter-school championship.
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
These three young men may not have a home of their own, but their hopes of living an independent life away from the fos…
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
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