In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
This short film is a simple and poetic look at the work of a patient and talented blacksmith from Houston, USA.
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
Chinese descendants in Serbia may go unnoticed in a rural farm, small retail stores or as employees in a mall. Will the…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
This short documentary shows those who visit the largest public park in southern Calcutta, India. In a society where th…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Descendant of Italian mobster, party man, maker of costumes and shows of all kinds, this documentary also shows another…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
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