Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
Film director Mladen Matičević has just turned 40 and realized that he is not satisfied with his life. One day, as he i…
Lovebirds are young rebel lovers that risk their life just to stay together. They escape their families and persecution…
In a time when women seem to be juggling the demands of career, family and beauty standards, a new overall fashion tren…
A music documentary about the punk band Hamac Cazíim, who come from an remote region of northern Mexico, fusing the mod…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
A collage - portrait of the Spanish industrial music band Esplendor Geométrico.
‘Kookaburra Love’ is a poetic documentary directed by Sjoerd Oostrik. Against a backdrop of disturbing images the viewe…
The End of Time is a cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler which explores our perception of time.
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
Moon is a ten-year-old girl. She writes books about a world where children can transform into animals and where magic a…
Lilly is nine years old and lives with her mother and brothers Robbin and Melvin in a squatter community deep in the wo…
A film by Tomas Kaan about the friendship between 12-year old Jim and 10-year old Sam and the last summer they spend to…
Between 1950 and 1966 thousands of men moved up to the Alps in the Valais, a natural landscape of rocks and ice. They b…
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
TOUMAST – GUITARS AND KALASHNIKOVS retraces a part of recent history of the Tuaregs. Theirs is a fragmented history mad…
This is the real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian …
Three Central American migrants embark on a journey to the north. Seeking safety and a better life, they find the will,…
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striv…
Victor has a rare form of cancer in an advanced stage. Moreover, his wife is about to divorce him. Trapped in the antec…
ALL WE EVER WANTED is a film about young, creative, ambitious people living the big-city-life. They seem to have it all…
Khadija, an extraordinary wedding videographer and young divorced mother in Morocco, moves back and forth from her conf…
Imagine a remote Roma village in Hungary, where 98 percent of the population is unemployed. Drinking water and public l…
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century he photographed bums, worker…
A visit to Bloorcourt, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of Toronto, where immigrant entrepreneurs from all over the w…
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
On a balmy summer Virginia night in 1995, three extremely promising young people would get into a car: only two would e…
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
A day in the life of Tatyana Prokopenko, a courageous woman from Mailuu-Suu, an all-but ghost town in the former Soviet…
A touching and often funny observational documentary about a charming couple in their twilight years, who have lived in…
Joana is an energetic and slightly rebellious Portuguese teenager. She is also the young mother of a girl whose father …
In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nun…
Daniel MacNee can't remember what the weather was like yesterday. Nor can he remember his own past. Since a devastating…
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden bo…
Through an entertaining interview with advertisement genius Tony Segarra, this dynamic educational documentary explores…
This short film follows Floh, a passionate Belgian accordionist that expresses her rebellious spirit through her songs.
Leny came out of the closet aged 68. Since then she has thrown herself into lesbian life, making up for lost time. She …
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
This is a film portrait of a Latvian woman named Santa Claus, who shares her apartment with 33 animals: seven dogs, six…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
This film follows Rafael Correa during an arduous political campaign in his aim to be reelected as president of Ecuador…
Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologisi…
Covering a span of 35 years in the life of Honza, a man born “on camera” in 1974. This film shows not only the life of …
Filmmaker María Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story. When she was only 10 years ol…
PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, …
Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at hear…
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