Feature Length Docs

Ala’a Hassan, Samer, Tasneem and Waed are third-generation Palestinian refugees living in the Syrian camp of Yarmouk Shot over the course of three years, just before the war broke out, the film brings us affectingly close to the group as it approaches adulthood and negotiates difficult choices with ...

Dima was killed on the 23rd of May 2013 at the age of 21. Enlisted in the Russian army, he was shot in the head during a military operation in Dagestan. His parents face the void following his death, whilst the army continues to train young soldiers for future missions. The two universes intertwine ...

As the symbol of authentic, preserved wild nature, forests are undergoing an unprecedented phase of industrialization.  Heavy mechanization, monoculture, fertilizers and pesticides, loss of traditional know-how,  forest management... all follow the intensive agricultural model at an accelerated ryth...

When Lori, a young Chinese filmmaker, arrives in the small English village of Thaxted, she discovers it’s a place where the dead surround the living and the border between the two is easily crossed. Lori is introduced to the village church and she becomes fascinated with long dead Socialist Vicar, C...

"Togoland Projections" takes us to the territory of the former German colony of Togo. We follow the film expedition of director Hans Schomburgk who shot documentary and adventure films there in 1913-1914. At each stage of our journey, we show his films to today's Togolese public and question Togo's ...

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 ?...

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? ...

Following an appeal by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwich, a founding member of the International Parliament of Writers besieged in Ramallah, a delegation of writers travels to the city to demonstrate alongside the Palestinians a “fine example of linguistic collaboration” in this “high place of sp...

At sunset in the streets of the ancient old town, the musical clubs of Zanzibar buzz with the joyful sounds of Taarab, the music of Zanzibar, whose style reflects two millennium of cultural exchange and the island's place at the crossroads of the spice route. ...

In the town of Zinder in Niger, in the poor area of Kara-Kara which used to be the lepers’ district, a culture of gang violence reigns. A group of youths is trying to break free from this violence, some are trying to start a family and make a life for themselves rather than end up in prison. Aicha M...