While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
Filmed over two years in southern Argentina, this documentary makes visible the indigenous people who rediscover their …
This documentary blurs the margins of the artificial and the natural. A museum worker, a deer farmer and a taxidermist …
The young South Korean photographer Haneul Dameun invites us in this documentary to what she calls her "secret garden",…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
On the eve of the presentation of their next work, a piece about black homosexuality, this poetic documentary follows a…
Set in the majestic mountainous landscape of southern Chile, a wise man isolates himself in this dreamlike place where …
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
A humble family lives inside an unfinished residential building in Bogotá. On the outside, there seems to be no life, b…
A filmmaker is stranded at the airport in Dakkar, Senegal. In this short film, she launches images of this journey spun…
As the UN World Youth Report concludes, through the successful case of a social enterprise in India we witness how such…
This short film premiered at the Berlinale takes us to the farm of Juan, who has worked in agriculture all his life and…
Composed of black and white still pictures, in this short film Hanne tells us how life goes on after losing her sister …
A lawyer and human rights activist embarks on a quest that could take a lifetime: to find her mother, who disappeared f…
This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
In an old underage prison in Mexico, a video and photography workshop brings out the infinite creativity of a group of …
In the bucolic and desolate Argentinian wilderness, a young man spends his days alone surviving as in ancient times. Wh…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
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