In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Twenty years after World War II, Norway is once again living in fear after a series of terrorist attacks. It is 1965 an…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
Meet Natalia Gallardo. She is an Uruguayan peacekeeper who collaborates in a MONUSCO mission patrolling the lakes of Co…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
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