This documentary follows the career of Joan Fontcuberta, considered the most important contemporary visual artist in Sp…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
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 episode of UN in Action portrays how climate change has forced communities in Madagascar to seek better opportunit…
New York 2001, Bagdad 2003, Algeria 2007, Uganda 2010 are dates remembered by victims of terrorism worldwide. This epis…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
A war without history can only be reconstructed through the statements of those who fought in it. This gripping documen…
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
After his previous film was banned by sensors in Thailand, filmmaker Ing K. documents the Shutdown Bangkok protests in …
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
People with albinism are being discriminated and even killed in many parts of the world. This episode of Un In Action a…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
In this Un In Action, a UN program helps bring ambient temperatures down in New York by episode painting roofs white wi…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
In this episode of UN In Action, two women fight for sustainable policies that prevent consequences for climate change …
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow a Syrian Family that fled Homs, their home city, after the war erupted, and n…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This episode of the UN In Action shows how through women's empowerment the Fund for Agricultural Development helps coas…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
A young girl returns home after from a Youth Educational Center in Lodz. On the eve of her 18th birthday, the fears tha…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
The majority of people in Tbilisi, Georgia, don't own cars but pedestrians are never given priority on the streets. Thi…
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