A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
This documentary shows us the life in a refugee camp on Arbat, in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The film focuses on a boy of th…
Like silent observers, in this short film we are witnesses of how children of all ages play with toy weapons of all kin…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
This film is a unique view from within the most massive, longest, and politically significant student protest in Croati…
In this documentary, the screen is divided into 9 frames to show us the service of the Reformed Church in Holland in a …
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
In 1976, a 19-year-old daughter of a senior Communist official in Slovakia was found dead and raped. Since then, seven …
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
Back in southern Italy, the filmmaker revisits and reinterprets a bar that made a strong impression in his childhood.
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
This documentary presents us the inspiring career of the Polish filmmaker Kazimierz Karabasz, the ideologist of the "pa…
The pioneer of documentary photography Saul Leiter invites us to his department in New York City to reflect on his care…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
This documentary draws a portrait of the economist and activist Arcadi Oliveres who led the student struggle against th…
The true story of Bowling Legend Bob Perry, who battled, drugs, alcohol, the Mafia, and federal prison to emerge as one…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Ten minutes in the atelier of a painter is just enough time for a dance of drawn objects to invade the entire screen. A…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
A dark tunnel at the end of the light. In this documentary, this unfolded metaphor reveals the paradox between capitali…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
In what could be an undiscovered recent cult film, this satirical documentary tells the story of an ordinary and unknow…
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
In this documentary made only with footage filmed by activist filmmakers with hidden cameras in West Sahara, we witness…
A Chinese businessman promises a large investment project in the small municipality of Kalmar, in Sweden. A humorous do…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian artist Frane Milčinski Ježek, whose satirical poems and songs from t…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
In Orleans, France, the inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. T…
When Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise was a child, she used to send balloon letters to Allah. Now she has decided to …
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
This documentary follows the captivating life of the famous Georgian actor Kachki Kavsadze, who survived Nazi and Sovie…
Are we losing our sense of community in an increasingly unsustainable world? In this film, a small community in Austral…
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
An experimental portrait of the French pianist Erik Satie through audio recordings, musical compositions and the traces…
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