Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Chinese descendants in Serbia may go unnoticed in a rural farm, small retail stores or as employees in a mall. Will the…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
What is a family? This documentary explores the enigma through Aliona, a special needs child who begins to live with an…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
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