Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who make out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syr…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
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