The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. The director, Naomi Mizoguchi, spent a decade creating this film about the…
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
This beautiful rarity is an experimental documentary that, in only an uninterrupted shot, takes us into a vertical hous…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
This film makes visible the small community of Malana, in the mountains of the Himalayas, where an advanced concept of …
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
Through an observational approach, this short film documents the inhabitants of the neighborhood of Zeynebiye, in Istan…
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan …
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
In the midst of the calm and minimalism of an African rural landscape, the days of a young volunteer aid-worker go by t…
Award-winning director Michael Apted interviews the Japanese scientists in charge of manufacturing photographic lenses …
Best Documentary Films
