Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Some people compare it to the industrial revolution or the renaissance, but how revolutionary is the rise of the realm …
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
With open doors to their intimate lives and precious childhood memories, this documentary follows Jack and Yaya, two ol…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
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