This captivating documentary shows us the world of shop cats and their joyful interactions with cat lovers, in a specia…
Ten women share their powerful stories of overcoming trauma and reclaiming their lives from the harsh standards of fema…
Five hopeful migrants, trapped in Ceuta, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, grapple with mounting anxiety as they stand just…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
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…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
This compelling documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession in the …
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
The move from elementary school to high school is tense for any child. But most children only have to leave behind the …
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
Discover the unconventional art world of Christian Eisenberger, who questions artistic norms and freedom with his prodi…
In this educational UN short film, takes a revealing look at the inner workings of the world's largest diplomatic stage…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
Explore the pivotal role of Palestinian rights recognition in Middle East peace, highlighted by Kurt Waldheim during th…
On a balmy summer Virginia night in 1995, three extremely promising young people would get into a car: only two would e…
Step back to 1945 and witness the birth of the United Nations in San Francisco, where the UN Charter set a new course f…
This captivating documentary delves into Enrique Metinides' fixation with death, tracing his journey from child photogr…
In the treacherous waters of Lake Victoria, two sisters risk it all, defying both tradition and deadly government patro…
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
This documentary follows the career of Joan Fontcuberta, considered the most important contemporary visual artist in Sp…
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