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Young boys hang around, in search of meaning and liberty; a perception of the world and of themselves is sketched out through the flow of rap lyrics. On the roofs, in the intimacy of the darkness,...
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“In Afghanistan, I saw a couple making love on a roof”: we know very little of the day-to-day work of the pilots carrying out “targeted assassinations” with military drones. Four Americans agreed to...
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A tattoo parlour in Torre del Greco, a city outside Naples. People walk in to have their bodies rewritten following their lives or dreams. The act of tattooing becomes one of tribal sorcery or social...
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In this South African safari reserve, wealthy white and black tourists gape in admiration at the lions mating before them. But the reserve is set up on fought-over land on which people continue to,...
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In the dead of night, Ionas, an old Romanian farmer, watches out for the boars that could ravage his cornfield. He dreams of his father and believes that this dream will bring rain. But usually the...
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Between the scenes of the porn film he is in the process of shooting, a young man dreams of love and success. Oscillating between two worlds, Love sketches out his portrait and simultaneously...
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Choreographer and activist Adia Whitaker has a mission: to protect young children from police brutality. Too many kids from her community have been harmed or killed. Frustrated by biased media...
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Calais, a border for the migrants who are trying to reach England, is also a peaceful port city in which people walking on the dunes, a roaming helicopter and a mobile ice cream seller coexist....
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A small town on the border between Portugal and Spain. A place beyond space and time. Not much happens during the day. But at night old ghosts roam once again the ancient streets of the village. A...
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As the Easter holidays pass by in gloominess, the idle wandering of Makenzy momentarily sees itself transformed by an afternoon with his sister. A suspended moment full of grace hence replaces the...
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Lampoko is the name the people of Bissiga (Burkina Faso) have given the volunteer aid-worker living in their village. The camera follows her daily routine and records her surroundings as she...
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In the morning mists rising off freshly turned soil, the bunches of carrots that are piling up in the tractor trailer are reward for hard and habitual work. In snatches, news of the fresh disruption...
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Sonali seems to float, like the first two shots, in a boat on the Ulhas River or walking up a busy street in Mumbai. She is suspended in an intermediary state where the reality of the world that...
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In the vast fields of Altai, a territory at the other end of the world, some isolated teenagers search for meaning in their life. The possible answers to this existential question seem doomed from the...
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In the streets of Oakland, an urban gleaner collects aluminium and copper. The materials will then be weighed, pressed, piled into containers, which are then too piled onto boats that disappear over...
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City of Salgueiro, Brazil. The sun scorches the people perched on the terraces watching a football match. Even the players on the ground seem to be slowed down by the punishing heat. But an epic...
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In 1920, Robert Flaherty filmed the Aran Islands and the difficult existence of its inhabitants. Now another filmmaker ventures to the same place, to be carried away by its wild nature, its silence,...
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In Vrbas, a small town in Vojvodina (adjacent to Hungary), with his uncle, a karateka and hunter, the 12-year-old Sale, is spending the summer far from his parents. He forms day-to-day relations with...
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In her small apartment in a Parisian suburb, Chahine throws together the rhythms that will accompany her on stage. This space is hers, and it is the only place where she feels safe. She visits the...
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Solitude in the Haut-Jura. During the days and nights of winter, Max and his companions split their time between farming activities, skiing, and the pub. Everything is muffled, by the snow and the...