Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
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 …
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
After the fall of the Berlin wall, in this documentary the incisive filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck takes a look at the history…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
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…
In his native Norway and across other European landscapes, this documentary follows the incomparable Tomas Espedal, one…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
Welcome to the Explorer. By playing this documentary you will become a silent crew member of this container ship on its…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
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…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
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 …
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
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