Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
As nostalgic as it is contemporary, this gaze at a remote rural village is a precious opportunity to appreciate the sim…
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
Welcome to a popular procession in Sardinia. A ritualistic - almost dreamy- observation of libertine demonstration that…
This unique documentary, full of humor and irreverence, follow the traces of the members of "Gelitin", an Austrian arti…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
In this curious road movie, a film lover takes his mobile Polish film festival through the beautiful landscapes of Icel…
From his delicate architectural eye, filmmaker Karl-Heinz Klopf makes a contemplative observation of architect Andra Ma…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This beautiful rarity is an experimental documentary that, in only an uninterrupted shot, takes us into a vertical hous…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
This short film is a glimpse at the world of living art, specifically the living statues, as a fascinating way to conve…
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
The appearance of Leo "Bud" Welch on the American blues scenario at his 81 years of age took the fans of the genre by s…
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
Hilda Walsh has a small city in her basement. Her husband, Ivor, left behind a model replica of the 1950s Boston transi…
Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 …
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacitie…
Best Documentary Films
