The Ehsan House mental health hospital in South Tehran encourages patients to form relationships with each other, get married and live as a family. For the past 20 years its 480 patients have lived in separate male and female units, but in 2017 the head of the centre secured money to build a new ...

After he receives an unexpected letter from an old friend of his mother, Yuki Kawamura flies back to Japan with his camera, and takes his father on a roadtrip to meet all the people who knew Norie - Yuki‘s mother, who died when he was only three years old - drawing a portrait of his long lost mot...

Magnitogorsk is an industrial town, in the heart of Russia that depends on its gigantic steel plant: The Kombinat. Lena, a young mother, daughter and grand-daughter of steel workers, teaches dancing lessons, one of the many activities organised by the factory. Amongst her students, there’s Sasha ...

Don Orione is a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires where crime is part of everyday life. Toia Bonino’s documentary is about Ale, who after a short life of petty thievery, was shot by police at the age of 24, having been turned in by a friend. His story is told in voiceover by his mother whilst she mak...

After the closure of the high school and the fish farm, all the men and teenagers have to leave the tiny island of Out Skerries to go to the Mainland, leaving the women by themselves with the younger children.

Julie Powis Arthur is one of those women. First she saw her husband leave and now bot...

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indira dreams of elsewhere. In France, Mehdina strives to find her place. Whilst the adults seem to be fighting windmills, the kids grow up in a world of their own with ten-year-old Hasan blissfully wandering on the path of Armstrong and travelling into space.

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In 1976, after the ideological persecution and prohibition of his songs, Alfredo Zitarrosa is forced to abandon his country, which was immersed in a bloody military dictatorship. From his extensive and unpublished film and audio materials in first person, the film narrates the sorrow of living in...

Susana Schnarndorf is a professional Brazilian swimmer and mother of three, whose world comes crashing down when diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, a degenerative disease. Susana sets out to qualify for the Paralympic Games, a goal which maps out her journey in a race to survive, but leaves ...

Shot over the course of 7 years in Nicaragua, CLEAN HANDS follows the Lopez children who live with their parents on La Chureca, Central America’s largest rubbish dump. A philanthropist builds them a small house in the country with land they can farm, and the kids can attend school for the first t...