When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In this experimental short, Ana and a group of young people in a park have a lot to tell us about voyeurism, human conn…
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
Filmmaker Inna Denisova visits her Russian hometown and delivers a kaleidoscopic portrait of Russia after the annexatio…
In this collage-experimental short film, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck pays homage to the postulates that Sergei Eisenstein a…
When a large construction project begins in a small German town, the consequences are unpredictable.
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
How did the revolutionary German sculptor Arno Breker become the object of adoration and protégé of Adolf Hitler? In th…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
Coral, voyeuristic, incisive. This documentary, in the best style of the filmmaker Jean-François Lesage, dissects summe…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
Through interviews with the movement's protagonists, this documentary addresses the story of the Inkotanyi, the armed g…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
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