Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
In a remote rural village in southern Italy, a family prepares for the slaughter of a pig as part of a traditional ritu…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
With their golden years behind them, two fifty-something boxers from the north of Brazil decide to invoke their histori…
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
In the fast-paced style of those TV documentaries we all love, this film is a gripping expedition to the Chernobyl Excl…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
How could an ordinary man become the only known Soviet spy to have infiltrated the CIA during the Cold War? This is the…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
This rare documentary piece is a propaganda film with which the Pentagon trained its security personnel against the thr…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
When others film pain, Silvana Lopa films happiness. In just five minutes, the young Argentine filmmaker captures fragm…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
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