What are you willing to accept in order to have a good life? Maria works as a 24-hour caregiver to a woman in Vienna, and sees her family in Romania only every other month. Her two sons are growing up without her, and her own parents' care needs are increasing as they advance in age. Maria Lisa P...

In Bangui, Rodrigue and Reine are a couple very involved in the activities of their church. But they live with a terrible secret: they are HIV positive and carry it like a divine punishment. When Rodrigue is offered the position of assistant pastor, he has doubts: is he worthy of leading the chur...

Jessi, Naia and Shelby are just like any other girls. Or are they? Born in the heart of traditional Texas, heirs to a historically male-dominated pastoral culture, they are part of a new generation of women shaking up the male world of rodeo. Jessi is 16 and has several dozen victories under her ...

"When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 it became clear to anyone that the aggressor was conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine. It conquered Crimea with a combination of disinformation, propaganda, and secret military support for rebel groups, and covert military operations. The only surprise is th...

Là où Dieu n'est pas (Where God Is Not) is a film based on the testimonials of those who have been brutally treated by the Iranian regime. It seeks to understand how the most repressive aspects of this totalitarian system rely on imprisonment and torture. What does the torturer do? What are his g...

or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty

"Where the sandy beach of the Salton Sea, the biggest lake in California, begins to crunch harder, it does not even consist of sand any more: Millions of dead fish, plants and insects pile up on the shore to form a highly toxic substance. ...

In a hospital in the Paris region, a psychiatrist devotes himself to his mission at the risk of going out of his depth.

How do you provide good care in a sick institution? In a hospital in the Paris region, Dr. Abdel-Kader, a liaison psychiatrist, navigates from the emergency room to the intensi...

Two decades after the tragic death of his brother, the director Christians Einshøj's family is falling apart. But when his overworked CEO dad is unexpectedly let go from his job, and decides to sell the family home, Christian goes back home in a final desperate attempt to assemble the family and ...

From Executive Producer Fred Armisen, this New York Times Critic's Pick is a cinéma vérité portrait of an eccentric New York family navigating the chaos that divides them. The announcement of a polyamorous wedding threatens to sever what's left of a family bond.

-- Nira Burstein - 79min - 2021 -...

First time filmmaker, Éanna Mac Cana, creates a unique experience by combining his personal recordings as an inpatient being treated for Burkitt's lymphoma with Dr Burkitt's astonishing archive from sub-Saharan Africa. The legacy of Dr Denis Burkitt's medical work holds significance today, affect...

Since 2014, the terrorist organisation Boko Haram has led strikes against the villages and people of the Far North Region of Cameroon. Today, this constant threat of violence has woven itself into daily existence.

In her profoundly affecting debut feature, Cyrielle Raingou follows a group of chi...

Anne is a theatre director. She has separated from her husband and is moving house. She is dull, without desires. She meets Ben, a helpful neighbour and jobless actor. He looks at her with passionate eyes; she never wants to tie herself to a man again. But when she decides to stage Zola's “L'asso...

The film is based on online communication between Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly, his friends, and family in Gaza.
Living in exile wasn't a choice, since 2014, I've been in a distance from family. A choice that I didn't make, but I ended up living it, surrounded by challenges. The ongoing s...

Ambulance is a raw, first-person account of the war in July 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City joins an ambulance crew as the war approaches. What is it like to live under constant threat? How can Mohamed find his place in a country under siege, where there seems to be no foreseeabl...

In so-called "peripheral" France, where public services are disappearing or being dematerialised according to a purely utilitarian logic, I use the disappearance of the public telephone as a symbol. This road-movie in search of these twentieth-century ruins is built around telephone conversations...

Liverpool Story is an intimate year-in-the-life documentary centred around Liverpool, its communities and culture, we find beauty in the ordinary and see life in the city from a fresh perspective. Mirroring the ebb and flow of the River Mersey, themes of home, belonging and memory unfold over the...

Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about...

Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the unfolding of 9/11 on her tv in Stockholm. In the following months and years she saw her fellow countryman, the diplomat Hans Blix, become a major player in the global crisis, as weapons inspector for the UN.

Now, in the 21st century of wars,...

After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Imam, the director films her family courtyard. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonisation.

The courtyard becomes the theater where the future ...

Rasmané, alias Bolo, 16, is a teenage gold miner at the Bantara site in Burkina Faso. Like all teenagers of his age, he is playful and dreamy.

His daily routine is organised around cooking, working in the gallery and going down to dig at a depth of more than 100 metres. His hope hangs on a rope ...

In a retirement home in a small village in the south of France, residents try to build a community. What ties can they still manage to forge in this anonymous environment, as they approach the last chapter of their lives?

-- Dir. Judith Longuet-Marx - 2023 - 26min - Belgium --

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When 86-year-old Rene buys flowers, he always thinks about what color his wife would have chosen if she were alive. Like most people in this film, he spent more time with this partner than without.

Through candid, revealing interviews, Echo of You presents a group of Danish men and women, all a...

Le Film de Mon Père is my first film. The one my father always dreamt I would make. And perhaps, that’s the issue.

One day he bought a video camera and started filming himself daily. His goal: to offer me this autobiographical footage in order for me to make my first film. The diary of a lonely ...

The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.

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