After getting caught in a fight, Vahid needs to sell one of his kidneys to avoid a prison sentence of many years. While waiting for the liberating call from a buyer, a wish for a better life starts to grow within him.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's percepti...

The Rastreadoras de El Fuerte are a group of mothers of disappeared persons in northern Sinaloa who,...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs o...

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and a dozen living members of his extended family suffer from the very rare cond...

Workplace is a documentary made by Gary Hustwit, in association with R/GA, for the 2016 Venice Archi...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

Magdi, a strong-willed, but lonely caregiver faces a daunting reality as she grows older: If she wer...

This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become...

The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20t...

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from S...

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her count...

As doctors transform their patients, physical changes reveal deeper truths about insecurities and as...

David Asmmann's Football Under Cover documents the hard work involved in setting up an exhibition so...

Punk rock, B-movies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses unite in this heartfelt documentary. As members of Jeho...

The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a camp for displaced pe...

It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis an...