Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
The color of everything we see is more than a concrete visual message. This educational documentary gives us clues abou…
Being home to several of the archaeological wonders of humanity, the inhabitants of the Jordanian city of Petra propose…
In order to release a documentary that unveils the implementation of banned pesticides in banana plantations in Central…
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
Gopi Shankar, an intersex individual, is publicly vying for a seat in the legislative assembly of a conservative region…
This beautiful rarity is an experimental documentary that, in only an uninterrupted shot, takes us into a vertical hous…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
A group of HR activists is kidnapped when they try to denounce the Chinese regime during the visit to Serbia of one of …
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
A dreamy animated documentary about the dangers of early cinema.
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beac…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
Independent, disjunctive, incisive, this documentary makes an invisible portrait of Bansky, the most important - and an…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Award-winning director Michael Apted interviews the Japanese scientists in charge of manufacturing photographic lenses …
When A Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the family …
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
Buffalo Girls tells the story of two 8-year-old-girls, Stam and Pet, both professional Muay Thai prizefighters. Set in …
Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacitie…
In the region of Rajasthan, India, naturalist Gerhard Weihan takes up the challenge of raising and reinserting a small …
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tries to protect refugees worldwide. In Japan, not all immigrants are recognized as refug…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
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