When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
In case you didn't know, we are in a global water crisis. The UN launched a program to accelerate efforts towards meeti…
In the midst of an unstable political and social situation, a contingent of female UN peacekeepers helps solve the prob…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
In this episode of UN In Action, scientists at the National Museum of History in Albania are using a non-destructive me…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
This episode of UN In Action shows how a new invention in Africa can turn Methane released from cow dung into gas for c…
In this episode of UN In Action we follow a Syrian Family that fled Homs, their home city, after the war erupted, and n…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
In Mexico City, 9 out of 10 women have been victims of sexual violence during their journeys in the public transportati…
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) tries to protect refugees worldwide. In Japan, not all immigrants are recognized as refug…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
The majority of people in Tbilisi, Georgia, don't own cars but pedestrians are never given priority on the streets. Thi…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
Through a meticulous observational approach, this short film takes us to a village in the Bulgarian Balkans to show us …
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Oh! the famous American Delis, the ones we have always seen in films and pictures. This documentary takes a look at the…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
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