When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
Through a thorough research, this exciting documentary reveals how the tobacco industry operates to maintain its demand…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. …
This film invites us to a hypnotizing experience in a slow motion world. A high speed camera allows us to feel the move…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary rescues part of the vast propaganda footage that the Soviets shot in Africa to document their humanita…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This documentary is an essay, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes futuristic, that portrays the industrial city of Charleroi…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
In case you didn't know, we are in a global water crisis. The UN launched a program to accelerate efforts towards meeti…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
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