A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
Mountains have been a natural haven for men for thousands of years. But life there is hard, difficult, slow, repetitive…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
For artists in 1960s New York, Greenwich Village was the place to be. Featuring interviews with stars like Woody Allen …
In a race against time, three disparate individuals embark on a 14-day quest, exploring music, alchemy, and witchcraft …
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
An eager Cat rescue volunteer travels to the island of Mljet to castrate the local cats. But soon what started out as a…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
New York in Motion is a celebrated 60 minute documentary about the state of the art of Motion Graphics in New York. It …
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Produced by BBC Music, this True-Crime documentary is an in-depth investigation behind the murders of rappers Biggie an…
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
Have you ever thought about how you got here? We really are what our parents did for us. In this film, a son and father…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
In a time when women seem to be juggling the demands of career, family and beauty standards, a new overall fashion tren…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
This inspiring documentary follows Rina, a young girl from El Salvador who discovers Bici-Tec, a pedal-power technology…
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Two men seem to be condemned to remain for hours in a small room with no windows. One is a detective, the other one, a …
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
At the beginning of the eighties, the musician Martin Bisi founded in New York the recording studio BC Studio with his …
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
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