This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
In this episode of the UN In Action series, we follow the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in its task of demini…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
In this intimate documentary, a young film student faces a doubt, whether to continue in her profession or devote herse…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
This short film follows Floh, a passionate Belgian accordionist that expresses her rebellious spirit through her songs.
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
As industrial towns in the United States go into decline, a community in Detroit shows that it is possible to promote u…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
This biographical documentary portrays the multifaceted Argentine artist José Martinez Suárez, a 90-year-old man with t…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This short documentary follows the rock music producer Jia Qu in his challenge to promote the genre in the youth scene …
This documentary follows the renowned clown Robert Gorodetsky around the city of St. Petersburg, a portrait of the less…
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