In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
Through a letter written to the ghost of his grandfather, filmmaker Kelvin Kyung Kun Park makes this experimental film …
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
In the best style of the ethnographic photographers of the last century, this film shot in 16mm presents a lyrical albu…
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
A sketcher and a photographer walk around a South Korean city in search of something we do not know. As they walk, a fa…
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
A play staged by theatre students becomes a subversive piece to stand for LGBT rights.
Hilarious, shocking and informative at the same time, this bold documentary takes a historical look back at sex educati…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
Among the most iconic musicians of the hardcore punk music scene in the United States are Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
Albert Casals is a young man who has been in a wheelchair since suffering leukemia at the tender age of five. But this …
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
A rarely discussed topic emerges in this documentary through the testimonies of young men from ethnic minorities in Tur…
When a select group of artists gather in an exclusive residence on the seashore, many things can emerge from creation. …
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
Two teenage girls who are best friends and two young brothers grow up surrounded by the cold mountains of Lesotho, a co…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan …
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
In this episode of UN, a Japanese activist raises awareness about the danger to human health from chemical waste, speci…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
An atmospheric portrait of Port Nolloth, a place that was once a chimera of diamond mining in South Africa and now stru…
Covering a span of 35 years in the life of Honza, a man born “on camera” in 1974. This film shows not only the life of …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
This documentary follows the members of Voina (War) an art group that became known for its controversial and anarchic f…
Three women. Three female boxers. All three will give their all to win in this generally male-dominated sport.
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Three women tell us how their enlistment in the Los AngelesPolice Department poses the challenge of completely changing…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
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