Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
In what we could consider a subtle psychological thriller, a kind of journey into the mysteries of a soul, Viggo confro…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
What is the experience of children growing up in same-sex families? This documentary offers a children's point of view …
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
An exploration into the family past pushes a young Argentinean on a revealing journey in which he discovers that his gr…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
In October 2017, Juan Martín Guevara traveled to Bolivia to be present at the events commemorating the murder of his br…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
The filmmaker Iman Behrouzi prepares to make a film for the woman he loves, which triggers within his family a debate a…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
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…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
Through the diary written by his grandmother during her days of work in an ammunitions factory during the Second World …
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
This documentary tells the compelling story of a mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried h…
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…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
The visits of a sacred painting to the houses of ordinary Polish people frames the visit of a homeless person to his mo…
A young filmmaker revisits the footage of his parents, two famous Myanmar actors in the 60s. By watching the tapes, he …
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
The documentary is "a father's 'love letter' to his adult daughter Cáitrín, a young American woman who has a dream: to …
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
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