How much pain can you accumulate until you can't take it anymore? This light-hearted documentary follows an acting teac…
With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
From the rudimentary effects of the last century to the sophistication of the digital age, this film traces the history…
When a series of violent incidents begin to occur among the students of a prestigious medical school in India, filmmake…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
A collector embarks on a road trip to complete the world's largest collection of nintendo video games.
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
This short film takes us to the majestic plains of Badlands National Park, USA, to tell the story of a rodeo horse rais…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
From cyberbullying, to screen addiction and mental health, this is a must-see documentary for any parent who wants to l…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Through slow motion postcards, this short film shows us an ordinary day in the life of the inhabitants of North Korea, …
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
An old sailor faces physical and mental decline in his 80s. When a sailor can't go on anymore, he sets out for his fina…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
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