Documentary

Where does the feeling of guilt come from? Starting from the account of a medical condition, Farah Hasanbegović resorts to animation to search ...

Mysterious images shot around a wadi (a waterway in North Africa or the Middle East, often dried up), perceived as too calm by the filmmaker and ...

A series of old photographs awakens memories of childhood in post-war Spain, where a daughter and mother are struggling to find their place ...

In Sweden, the Kiruna iron ore mine, one of the largest in the world, is eating away at the city’s underground. Some of the centre’s large houses ...

For a long time, vessels crossing the High Risk Area on the Somali coastline would hire private mercenaries in order to protect themselves from ...

After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned ...

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami devastated the coasts of Japan, claiming thousands of lives. Today, the scars of this tragedy remain visible. Yet in ...

In his second feature film, Leandro Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema. ...

With striking images and meticulous sound work, Burial reminds us of the paradoxical relationship between scientific development and the ...

Foragers interweaves documentary and fiction to report on a searing conflict between the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Palestinian ...

In 1970, Léopold Senghor – President of Independent Senegal – wants to create a “Senegalese” architecture… and commissions two Frenchmen to ...

The life of a farmer in north-western Spain is turned upside down when his son returns home from the city. Under the guise of a western opening ...

Back in her family home, Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A Long Journey Home tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational and ...

Spring 2020: in Mexico City, a group of friends get together to rehearse a play. They gradually find themselves connected to the history of the ...

Peter Entell has been almost compulsively filming his father Max for years. Max is a cheerful man, a hug addict, who suggests to his son that he ...

This is the story of a film-making dog. In a series of return trips between Brittany and Lisbon, the protagonist, along with a producer, conjures ...

Jules Guarneri grew up in Villars, with two adopted siblings, in a chalet haunted by the ghost of his mother who died when he was 20, and where ...

The director Rudi Van der Merwe returns to Calvinia, the small town in South Africa where he grew up; an opportunity to once again tackle this ...

A young Indian filmmaker, who has been living in Europe for a long time, returns to his native land to tell fragments of the history of his ...

When the coronavirus hit Europe in 2020, Laura and Daniel were not ready to spend 24 hours a day together in the same place. After the first days ...

At the death of her mother, Aga decides to leave her life in Germany with her partner Maja to look after her younger brother in Poland. To do ...

Every month, hundreds of unemployed nurses travel from the south to the north of Italy in search of work. Two of them organise the trips by ...

With great humour and acuity, Pili Álvarez explores her own puerperium—the period of adjustment after childbirth. Using the tools of cinema ...

The Aral “Sea” powerfully reveals the deadly impact of human activities—in this case, the intensive cultivation of cotton in the USSR—on an ...

With fine watercolour strokes, Daniela de Felice (Casa, VdR 2013) paints the portrait of a young woman in love and with a true passion for ...

In a village untouched by time, so isolated that it is not on the map of Russia, Sysoy passes on the tradition of Byzantine chant to his son ...

After losing his dog, an eccentric artist from Belgrade embarks on a journey to look for his pet. Throughout his quest, we will get to know a ...

The Demands of Ordinary Devotion is a meditation on care and love, a beautiful riddle of shapes and gestures where creation and labour are ...

Travel documentary with the members of Kep1er!