On April 29th, 1992, Latasha Harlins was killed in South Central Los Angeles. Her death ignited the LA riots, yet her …
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
What was the world like before human kind set foot in it? This short film contemplates the apparently unspoiled landsca…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
Have you ever heard of cumbia music? This exciting road movie follows a group of filmmakers and musicians as they trave…
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this documentary sheds light on one of the most tumultuous times in Chile’s history and t…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
Photographs, travel videos, a female voice-over. Filmmaker Nora Särak creates a colorful and fresh collage to talk abou…
Three women, a wife, mother, and daughter, reveal the powerful transformations of grief into art through intimate cinem…
Former Yugoslav territories, 1980s - 1990s. Time of abrupt political changes and war. Behind all this there was a sound…
Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
Three women. Three female boxers. All three will give their all to win in this generally male-dominated sport.
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
Grandma has died but left a diary. The last time she wrote, it was the day before her death. How much can we learn abou…
Set somewhere in México, in this short film ancient spaces apparently dynamited by time appear in front of us. Unexpect…
As a singer, conductor and performance artist, Barbara Hannigan has left an imprint on the academic musical internation…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
This short film is a portrait of chef Roslyn Spence. Trained at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Roslyn has a d…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
Three women tell us how their enlistment in the Los AngelesPolice Department poses the challenge of completely changing…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
According to statistics, 95% of all incarcerated people will come home. Director Tamara Perkins follows three men in th…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
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