At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
In just four minutes, three faces discuss past lives, an unfortunate accident and what the future holds. A cigarette is…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
This documentary is a poetic approach to the stories that survive the flooding of a small village nestled in the mounta…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
Best Documentary Films
