This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Some photographs found in the streets of Buenos Aires trigger an investigation into the possible existence of two varie…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
An observation of life among the inhabitants of the Costa da Morte, on the northwest coast of Spain, reveals the tense …
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
A young girl returns home after from a Youth Educational Center in Lodz. On the eve of her 18th birthday, the fears tha…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Oh! the famous American Delis, the ones we have always seen in films and pictures. This documentary takes a look at the…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
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