Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
When Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua in 2006, a group of Americans see the lands they bought in the past th…
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
A group of conservationists led by brave women follow a migratory route of the ancient white sharks.
An exploration into the family past pushes a young Argentinean on a revealing journey in which he discovers that his gr…
This independent documentary is an educational effort to make visible the life and work of the great poet Walt Whitman …
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
A group of young Argentine designers want to use a mechanical printing press now in disuse due to digital advances. Wil…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow the Somali police force in their attempt to eradicate the contamination of ex…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
Most Ugandans live in rural areas where land is undocumented and unmapped. UN-Habitat works with Ugandan government to …
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
In this episode of UN In Action, activist Haha Dukureh makes visible the fight of millions of women in Africa against f…
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
José and Citlalli, an indigenous couple in Ecuador, begin to question their family's identity when they find out they a…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
South of Buenos Aires, in a coastal city, there is a public school in the middle of a forest, where its students have a…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
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…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
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