To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
Three stories from Sierra Maestra, Cuba, unravel on the day of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. What will the li…
This is the tale of what happened to the Americanized Children of Holocaust survivors. The film includes the testimonie…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
When three young friends set out on a journey they discover being on your own isn’t as easy as it seemed.
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
Director Orban Wallace addresses the issue of the refugee crisis in Europe from an unexpected perspective: How this cri…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
Denis is in his final year at the Ukraine’s National Music Academy. He faces his graduation exam, in which he has the c…
A piglet named Caesar lives a happy life with a loving owner, which is very different from other piglets’ lives. But do…
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
A collection of amateur films about people going to the beach on holidays allows director Ermanno Cavazzoni to reflect …
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
Freely inspired by a script that filmmaker Federico Fellini never filmed, this documentary portrays the journey of two …
Two men seem to be condemned to remain for hours in a small room with no windows. One is a detective, the other one, a …
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
After being suppressed during her childhood, the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni fled to Europe to be a free woman. He…
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
At the beginning of the eighties, the musician Martin Bisi founded in New York the recording studio BC Studio with his …
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
This is the story of Gan HaShlosha, better known as the “Sakhne”, one of the largest, most famous and most visited park…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
Through an educational approach, The Brave Class explores the dilemma of human language as a vital factor to construct …
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
One courageous woman’s journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation.
In this classic of the late forties, the director Sydney Meyers captures the harsh life of a black boy from Harlem that…
The film is an unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship between the filmmaker Nada Riyadhin and a young …
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
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