Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
Welcome to a popular procession in Sardinia. A ritualistic - almost dreamy- observation of libertine demonstration that…
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
Balcon De Europa is a tourist place in the coastal town of Nerja, Spain. This documentary is a discreet gaze at this vi…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
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