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A small village of Normandy is getting ready to welcome a new family without knowing who they are. The mayor is totally in favor, the local sheriff fears for his tranquility, others get all exited by their new welcoming mission whilst the youngest observe amused how the elders may be disturbed. Time...

Welcome to Refugeestan focuses on the way the UNHCR manages camps that shelter more than sixteen million refugees all around the world, creating a virtual country as large as the Netherlands. How does the UNHCR run these camps and train its representatives? How can they deal with the urgent needs of...

On the banks of the Moyen-Chari River, in Southern Chad, young linguist Florian Lionnet is documenting Láàl, a language isolate only spoken in two small villages, which is threatened of disappearing in the short to medium term. For the time being, however, people in this part of the world commonly s...

Eleonor, Jutta, Elli, Carola and Lilo are American citizens. Perfectly at home there, it’s hard to imagine what these women have endured in their lives. Nevertheless, they were all born in Germany, brought up under the Nazis and the bombings. Just out of their teens, all five of them married Americ...

Award winning filmmaker Marc Isaacs explores the secret life of Britain's truckers, discovering an uncharted world of isolation, loneliness and the open road. Finding many of these men sleeping in their own trucks in lay-by car parks and service stations, this film is an intimate and poignant portra...

With Japan’s opening to the West in the 19th century, travellers bring back art objects and engravings in Europe. Japonism overwhelms the artists imagination as a reaction against academism, and influences the avant-gardes, leaving it’s mark on the Impressionists, the Nabis or the Fauves… Through th...

Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience ?...

A documentary through a simple story about human and economical events that are taking place nowadays in Poland. Another image of the traditional life in the country that is rapidly vanishing, shaken by a sudden change in society. Grandmother is dying and so is her farm. Her son will not stay alone ...

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, th...

In the CHUV training center in Lausanne, «fake» patients and «real» carers simulate medical consultations, to learn how to perform kindness. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible? ...