At the Makarenko public elementary school on the outskirts of Paris, devoted teachers help children learn, grow, and discover confidence. Through patience, determination, and compassion, they prepare their students to become not only successful learners, but thoughtful, responsible human beings.
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Every year, over 60,000 young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are sent across the world to preach their gospel. Sundance Film Festival selection THE MISSION follows four Latter-day Saints teenagers from their training in Utah to their missions in Finland, home of...

Frantz Fanon was the preeminent theorist of the twentieth century anti-colonial movements, a man whom Jean-Paul Sartre recognized as the figure “through whose voice the Third World finds and speaks for itself.” Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director of such provocative films as Looki...

For seventeen years, director Marie Losier has followed the trailblazing, provocative, and taboo-shattering career of artist and musician Peaches. From her early life, to her ascent towards becoming a queer feminist icon, her story is one that has defied expectations and exemplified fearless expl...

Irlan and Isabela are two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, united by a shared dream of becoming professional ballet dancers. This moving documentary traces their journey from Brazil to the world’s most competitive stages in New York and Switzerland. Along the way, their passi...

What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions and more while examining one of the latest major breakthroughs in AI technology – open language models that enable realistic con...

TOTAL TRUST is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary about surveillance technology, abuse of power and censorship. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and...

In a volunteer aid van occupied by multiple generations of civilians, an authentic and intimate observation of the war in Ukraine unfolds. Each passenger is unique in age, origin and circumstance, but alike in where they find themselves – fleeing their homes while huddled together in a cramped ba...

In the Mongolian desert, young nomadic couple Davaa and Zaya live with their four children, bound to the rhythms of the land. When a sudden, devastating sandstorm wipes out half their herd, they are forced to abandon their home and move to the outskirts of the city. But as they struggle to adapt ...

Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration with the National Front, a far-right political party, gaining strength. Outraged by this xenophobic agenda and a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders teams up with like-minded creati...

Robin is pregnant but does not want to be a mother. Katerina and Gaia are single and want a child. Kiki suffers from an incurable disease and wants to end her life with dignity. The procedures they hope to get access to – abortion, IVF and euthanasia – are all available and legal in neighboring c...

Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the forgotten world of Armenian cinema, reflecting on her late father's acting career and her own creative path. Blending personal memories with a celebration of profound cultural and artistic legacy, the film was selected as Arme...

Three close friends, Crista, Carloto and João – along with an entire film crew – become the protagonists of a cinematic experiment during COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal. They spend their time in a spacious farmhouse where the long, sun-soaked summer days include dancing, chores, disturbed sleep pa...

Before Dirk Diggler, there was John C. Holmes, the legendary adult actor who turned “Johnny Wadd” into a franchise and himself into a myth. WADD plunges into the heady 1970s and 1980s LA porn scene – the non-stop sex, the coke-fueled nights, the seedy characters, and the fatal orbit of club kingp...

OBSESSED WITH LIGHT pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), a wildly original performer who pioneered modern dance by combining fabric and movement to develop a completely new kind of spectacle. Creating a dialogue between the past and the present, filmmakers Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva...

Formerly known as The Hermit Kingdom for its desire to remain isolated, North Korea is the last communist country and the largest source of instability in regard to world peace. It also has the most militarized border of any nation, and the flow of impartial information – both in and out – is pra...

Released four years after the Brazilian national team’s 1970 World Cup victory, this documentary follows the goals, glory and life of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pelé, the greatest soccer player of the 20th century.

Produced and directed by Luiz Carlos Barreto, the film w...

Manuel Francisco dos Santos, nicknamed Mané Garrincha, but best known as Garrincha ("little bird"), was one of the greatest Brazilian soccer players of all time, and perhaps the sport's most famous dribbler. This acclaimed documentary, produced at the zenith of his career, explores his unique abi...

How is happiness measured? Can satisfaction with one’s life be rated on a scale from one to ten? The Kingdom of Bhutan’s famous – and highly exoticized – government policy measuring its nation’s Gross National Happiness operates on the idea that the basic tenets of fulfillment can and should be q...

A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks remarkably similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What’s even more odd is that this doppel...

Outspoken, manipulative, independent thinking and oftentimes controversial, Artie Shaw (1910-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Swing Era, who famously broke the color barrier by hiring the legendary Billie Holiday, Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge for his bands. His complex love-hate r...

Considered one of the first true fly-fishing films, TARPON brings together famed American authors Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison with legendary flats guides Woody Sexton, Gil Drake, and Steve Huff as they muse about life, art, nature, and fishing the majestic tarpon.

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Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who not only was a director of Italian B-movies but also penned the screenplay for the Sergio Corbucci spaghetti-western Django (which famously provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's own Django Unchained). An u...

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. A member of a historically marginalized and oppressed community, Aaju’s heritage puts her in the unique position of someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers who arrived in the Arctic...