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In Algiers, a writer embarks on a poetic mapping of jacarandas, those purple-flowering trees from Latin America. His filmmaker son follows him on this intimate journey, where the father's stories sketch a loving dictionary of the city. Their intertwined perspectives compose the story of a transmissi...

Open a door. Handle a crisis. Write an incident report. At France’s prison officer academy, hundreds of men and women learn to become prison guards. Their words begin to mirror the institution. Their movements sharpen. What once felt uncertain becomes routine. Doubt slowly fades from their faces. ...

Egypt, which its people call the mother of the world, is unrecognizable. Gigantic construction sites have sprung up in the desert at an exponential rate: roads, bridges, megaprojects along the Mediterranean coast… This new Egypt is a mirage: in ten years, the population has sunk into unprecedented p...

The missing soldiers and civilians abducted or lost in the fighting, represent the blind spot of the war in Ukraine. Anne Poiret's documentary follows three women searching for their husbands, oscillating between hope and an impossible grief. Like tens of thousands of others, they relentlessly inves...

Vitaly is over 50 years old and a sincere supporter of Vladimir Putin. He has gone through difficult times, having lost his job and home, and now lives a temporary, hopeless life on the outskirts of Novosibirsk, in Siberia. Over the course of eight years, the film captures Vitaly’s transformation fr...

Nicole, 55, and her mother Alberte, 87, live together in a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva. Through their habits, they become trapped in codependency: Nicole seems incapable of autonomy, while Alberte is terrified at the idea of being alone. But as she grows closer to Lauren, her filmmaker niece,...

In the favela of Gamboa (Bahia, Brazil), the terrace of Mônica’s restaurant has become trendy since influencers take selfies in this atypical setting on the edge of the bay of Salvador. But on the other side of this postcard, the inhabitants try to take advantage of this tourist bonanza to survive, ...

After surviving Isis prisons as a child, Rashid has been reunited with his family in Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq. Now a teenager, this young Yazidi dreams of a brighter future in a country that is struggling to rebuild. But peace is fragile in Sinjar, and hatred against the Yazidi minority is resur...

The Mediterranean Sea is a deadly desert for those who want to cross and reach Europe. Off the coast of Libya, the crew of the Ocean Viking are on the lookout for lost boats. After a high-risk rescue, shipwrecked travelers and rescuers live together aboard awaiting to dock at a safe port. This perio...

The Synthetic Sincerity Lab based at the University of Southern England are trying to create authentic AI characters as part of a new research project. The head of the lab, Professor SonG, licences the films of Marc Isaacs' to better understand what his AI characters are lacking and, in turn, agrees...