Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
We've all heard of Mount Everest, but we don't know who were the first two men to reach its summit. This vintage Oscar-…
It took five athletes a lifetime to complete the Oceans Seven, the swim challenge that consists of crossing the seven g…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Narrated by Game of Thrones star Iain Glen, this documentary takes us through the majestic forests of Scotland to disco…
As artificial intelligence develops at a rampant speed, the human craft could be supplanted by this virtual wisdom. Or …
Shot in a beautiful black and white at a Zimbabwean orphanage, children and teenagers look at us and talk about the lif…
A filmmaker is stranded at the airport in Dakkar, Senegal. In this short film, she launches images of this journey spun…
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
This iconic video essay owned by the British Film Institute delves into the evolution of the representation of LGBTI ch…
This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
After being defeated in World War II, Adolf Hitler fled to Argentina, where he died in 1962. Did he not? This docudrama…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback betwe…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Shot in different countries, between antipodes like South Africa and Colombia, this short documentary is a visual essay…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
The desert of northern Argentina is getting drier due to the activity of extraction companies. Flora and her llamas fin…
A lover of the past. A road trip through the southwestern United States. An experimental short documentary that tries t…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
In a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia, a man planted the flag of the fictional country called "Liberland".…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
This documentary follows the prominent British artist Marc Quinn for more than a year in his life as he creates and exh…
Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
Best Documentary Films
