Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by women in far more precarious circumstances than herself, she tries to regard her unprecedented social downfall as an immersion in real life. By the time she leaves, Mariem’s view of the world will have changed forever, enriched by all the women she has met along the way.

Christy Martin broke boundaries and noses as she rose in the boxing world, but her public persona be...
Achour is thirty. Night and day, he walks. Rebellious soul, he crisscrosses Alger and its neighborho...

Homelessness in the United States takes many forms. For Elizabeth Herrera, David Lima and their four...

After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward ...

His signature roles were the edgy North German characters: Jan Fedder was one of the most popular ac...

Where we come from shapes who we are, and how others see us. Home gives us a sense of belonging and ...

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gende...

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] ...

49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-base...

A Sense of Justice, immerses us In a law firm in this same city. There, we can find Christine Mengus...

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The days pass, and so does life. Watching the waves to come and go, Laur...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such a...

Award-winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce investigates New Zealand's housing crisis and what might...

Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the m...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He c...