When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Four transgender people in Thailand talk about their intimacies and most cherished dreams. Can survival cease to be the…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Several years after being separated by prison, Louis and Annette revisit the memories and places that challenged their …
Nostalgic, mysterious, enigmatic. This experimental short film navigates between the idyllic days the filmmaker spent i…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
Shot in stark black and white, this short film is a look at the creative process of the famous French painter Abdelkade…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
In this artistic documentary, the legendary Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián shares his experiences and his creation pro…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
Best Documentary Films
