Embark on a surreal odyssey through a digital desert, guided by an enigmatic avatar, navigating a world where real-life…
Five disparate souls—a beleaguered teacher, a young man grappling with prejudice, a betrayed nun, a haunted farmhand, a…
When a female AI artist, sets out to explore masculinity in art, she inadvertently reveals a profound societal critique…
A compelling exploration of African resilience, tradition, and pride set against the vivid tableau of the Omo Valley, t…
This Documentary is an intimate exploration of the life and influence of Mary Bauermeister, the pioneering force behind…
This is an intimate film, that explores the Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly's life, revealing his unique approach to m…
Google's project to digitize all the books in the world at the beginning of the 21st century brought enormous consequen…
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
As a singer, conductor and performance artist, Barbara Hannigan has left an imprint on the academic musical internation…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
Experimental filmmaker Khaled Abdulwaheds cinematically deconstructs a photograph of a cactus field in 1998 Syria. Now …
When his piano is destroyed in the Syrian war, pianist and composer Ayham Ahmad continues to make music of resistance n…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
While the decline in drinking water supplies threatens existence of life on planet Earth, already in Cape Town, South A…
Shot on 16mm film, this short documentary is a fleeting glimpse of the iconic Aligre market in Paris. You've never seen…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
Best Documentary Films
