Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
In 1998 Apple discontinued Newton, its first touchscreen handheld computer. This film shows how, twenty years later, Ne…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Six scenarios play out against the backdrop of modern London, enabling a portrait of human beings as consumers of their…
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
As industrial towns in the United States go into decline, a community in Detroit shows that it is possible to promote u…
What happens if one crime is committed to prevent another? This documentary shows us how environmentalist Ken Ward is w…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
For just the way a chicken dies, a woman can be accused of being a witch and excluded from communities in northern Ghan…
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
This biographical documentary portrays the multifaceted Argentine artist José Martinez Suárez, a 90-year-old man with t…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This short documentary follows the rock music producer Jia Qu in his challenge to promote the genre in the youth scene …
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