On 16 February 2019, a popular uprising against the candidacy of President Bouteflika, in the run for a fifth term, broke out in Algeria and resulted in the "Smile Revolution". Nardjes, a young Algerian woman, took part in this movement that restored hope and replaced it with disenchantment. During his first trip...
Niños Maya is a maternal and necessary look at the reality of Maya children to improve childhood conditions in the world. This documentary is dedicated to all the children met during the shooting and especially to those who are no longer there. trailer     [caption id="attachment_8609" align="alignright" width="215"] Veronica...
The film narrates the story of three women in three different cities. They have given up on life. One lives in Damascus. She has stopped speaking to others entirely, isolating herself in her flat. The other has left Damascus as a result of the war and went to Sweden, where...
We Are Not Together is a multi-form documentary that takes the refugee and immigration narrative out of the hands of large media companies and allows us to hear directly from those most affected. Shot in part by its subjects, the film dives headfirst into the myriad diverse experiences of tens...
Today Albania is an open-air construction site, and Tirana is the symbol of an aggressive and vital country, full of fresh energies to be thrown in the free market and new economy pot - from public  and private construction to financial and telephone marketing.  Tirana is not only the capital...
Routine violence and muezzins' calls for prayers shape the time-flow of daily life in Indian Kashmir. Almost 30 years have gone since the beginning of the armed struggle, and notwithstanding a widespread frustration, the controversial dream of Kashmir's independence, along with the nightmare of the conflict, is still preserved alive....
Louay, Yazan and Rami have always played together on the Palestinian football field of Yarmouk, in Syria. When the conflict around Damascus increases, they find shelter in Boj-el Barjneh camp, in the outskirts of Beirut, where today they defend the colors of Al-Aqsa, the Palestian team symbol of the camp....
The film tells about the experience of Mother Besna who wants to reach her son just like other mothers whose sons are involved in the war that has lasted for many years in Turkey. So, this is a period documentary that describes Mother Besna's struggle for finding her son Enes...
Southern outskirts of Milan. Gratosoglio, a muslim-majority neighbourhood. Four seventeen-year-old girls and two boys of the same age, Christians and Muslims, challenge themselves with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, led by a young actress. Are Montagues and Capulets like Christians and Muslims? What is the meaning of falling in love with...
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. As we follow Indira...
Asalif and his mother defy the newly-built housing estate which is like all the other ones springing up all over Ethiopia and continue their life within the traditional village community: grazing their animals, tending their gardens and picking fruit off the trees. Asalif’s hut lacks electricity, but the windows of...
In 2005, Gabriel Stauring, a young activist from California, decides to travel to Africa - with a camera in hand - to do what he can to help the thousands of refugees from Darfur escaping from a cruel and dramatic civil war in Sudan. Eight years later, Gabriel's enthusiasm is...