In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
A privileged individual receives a permit to make a copy of a famous Monet painting in a lonely museum. But is he reall…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
The voices of the Mapuche and Creole communities, in the Argentinian Patagonia, explain Transhumance, as they call it. …
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
Deep in a forest in Laotia, a young man supports his family by growing opium, the substance that both saves and condemn…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
The intrepid Ben Jacoby, known worldwide for his escapades on stilts, decides to challenge himself to achieve the Guinn…
During Franco's regime in Spain, thousands of lesbians and gays were repressed and disappeared. This documentary is the…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
In a remote Arctic village in northern Norway, an indigenous rapper tries to make a living with his music. But, will he…
A public park in Moscow becomes the scene of dispute when believers of Russian Orthodox Christianity want to take a plo…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Through the experience of a young activist living with HIV, this episode of UN In Action shows us the efforts to preven…
Filmed in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
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