With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
After the signing of the peace treaty between the guerrillas and the Colombian State, the sixth front of the FARC-EP be…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
On the dangerous route that Central American migrants take to the United States, a Catholic missionary welcomes travele…
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
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…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
A small village in Russia holds the souls of many persecuted politicians of the Soviet Union. In the autumn of his life…
In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
Luis Quijano, the son of an officer of the Argentine dictatorship of the late 1970s, looks at us on camera and tells us…
In the midst of a severe crisis, Lebanon is the stage of a battle between the people and its political class. This shor…
Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film documents the popular insurgency that overthrew the Mubarak regime in …
This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
During the dictatorship of Pinochet in Chile, a women's movement took to the streets to protest against the regime for …
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
Trapped in an Indian society that does not accept their relationship, two young lesbian women commit suicide in Nandigr…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
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