As the UN World Youth Report concludes, through the successful case of a social enterprise in India we witness how such…
With exclusive film footage of the era, this documentary brings to life the famous Pebble Beach Road Races of the 1950s…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
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…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Jammings recorded on home videos, old photographs and music with the texture of vinyl records. Yes, this is the exquisi…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
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