After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
With open doors to their intimate lives and precious childhood memories, this documentary follows Jack and Yaya, two ol…
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
A trip to a big city means for Lee and Jia to leave behind the old red house where they have lived for the last few yea…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
Through the different perspectives of two guerrilla fighters, this documentary delves into the ins and outs of the peac…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
Since the day Ethan Bialick heard the rocket alert while visiting Tel Aviv, his life was changed forever. This animated…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
In a remote Arctic village in northern Norway, an indigenous rapper tries to make a living with his music. But, will he…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
The inhabitants of Europe's only desert star in an out-of-the-ordinary Western. Here the only weapon against the enemy …
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
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…
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