Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s white South African family tr…
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
Marah, Noor, Mona and Betty have something in common, the love for speed and for their country. In this action-driven d…
This short film premiered at the Berlinale takes us to the farm of Juan, who has worked in agriculture all his life and…
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
The film is an unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship between the filmmaker Nada Riyadhin and a young …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
José and Citlalli, an indigenous couple in Ecuador, begin to question their family's identity when they find out they a…
In search of a glimpse of southern right whales, we accompany a maritime excursion that sets sail from the cold coasts …
This life-changing documentary follows the taekwondist Sara Khoshjamai-Fekri in her way to become the first ever Irania…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
In 2005, a suicide bomber walked into Ashraf's wedding, killing 27 people. Now he is on a quest to confront terrorism a…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
Following a dream that revealed to him an indigenous massacre ordered by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, a Native American spi…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
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