Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
Amir Awad, from the Syrian National Team for wrestling, introduces us to the Syrian Sports Academy, a place that trains…
This episode of UN in action nos muestra cómo los integrantes de una escuela primaria en Kenya aprenden a sembrar y cui…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
A Chinese filmmaker isolates thirteen actors in a weapons factory where they must live as in times of the Cultural Revo…
Farmers in Nepal are the worst affected by climate change as most of them are forced to migrate to other countries to s…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Pablo Lecuona, an Argentinian with visual disability, introduces us to a digital library that has adapted hundreds of t…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
Innu poet and activist Natasha Kanapé feels a call from her indigenous roots every day. She tries to empower herself an…
This episode of UN in action shows us the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, which has been helping stabilise the country…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
This short documentary shows those who visit the largest public park in southern Calcutta, India. In a society where th…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
In 2011, a young Chilean man, Manuel, was killed by a bullet fired by the security forces in a demonstration. This is t…
Descendant of Italian mobster, party man, maker of costumes and shows of all kinds, this documentary also shows another…
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
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