The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
Polish survivors of a massacre by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 return to the lands from which they fled. Stories of h…
Filmed over seven years, Drawing The Tiger is a intimate portrait of a family in rural Nepal who get a chance to break …
Through a kind of intimate trial, we unveil the painful case of Moriom, a young Bangladeshi woman with a mysterious loo…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
Tong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
'UDITA' follows a turbulent half decade in the lives of women on the front line in the garment workers struggle. From 2…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
The film reveals a little known side of Samsung, known for its mobile phones and other electronics, a company that in S…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
Jelle and Sofie, two filmmakers with a decadent love relationship, decide to film themselves during a trip to Greece. T…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
On a balmy summer Virginia night in 1995, three extremely promising young people would get into a car: only two would e…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Rain is an the atmospheric precipitation to which we are accustomed to, and it is also the result of a complex natural …
Just twenty-four hours before the fight begins, a group of amateur women boxers prepare for their first time in the rin…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
Inspired by the best-selling book "The Gift", this documentary follows characters from three continents to weave an end…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
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