Only documentary filmmaking can give us a frank and warm portrait like this one, the one that the director Marcelo Diaz…
This animated short film illustrates the adventure of Lino, an Italian partisan and his companions in their attempt to …
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Golos is a collection of stories told by, and about the people of Ukraine; exploring from a unique perspective the natu…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
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…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
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 …
An old sailor faces physical and mental decline in his 80s. When a sailor can't go on anymore, he sets out for his fina…
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control of natur…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
After a tragic fire in Melbourne's northeast in 2009, a group of Australian Blacksmiths begin to build their greatest j…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
In search of a glimpse of southern right whales, we accompany a maritime excursion that sets sail from the cold coasts …
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