Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
Documentary master Sergei Loznitsa makes an observational exploration of a fishing community in the White Sea, where vi…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
From the rudimentary effects of the last century to the sophistication of the digital age, this film traces the history…
For artists in 1960s New York, Greenwich Village was the place to be. Featuring interviews with stars like Woody Allen …
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Just after 9/11, filmmaker Greta Schiller documents the daily life of Isabela, a witty New York girl growing up amidst …
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
This gem is the first documentary feature film about Robert Frank, with exclusive access to the places, memories and wo…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
Using black and white film footage of the time, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs the siege of the Nazi army in Le…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
After the murder of a Buddhist art teacher in southern Thailand, three filmmakers make a journey through the region to …
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
The filmmaker Sarita Siegel takes us into the Asian forests to show us the reality of the orangutans, a species at risk…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
A lonely young Californian man obsessed with Steven Spielberg embarks on the adventure of filming his first movie, whic…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
Combining animation and live action footage, this documentary follows Mansour, a homosexual Iranian Muslim on a journey…
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
The true story of Bowling Legend Bob Perry, who battled, drugs, alcohol, the Mafia, and federal prison to emerge as one…
After having been part of the Black Panther Party in Kansas City during the 60s, Pete O'Neal had to go into exile in Ta…
In what could be an undiscovered recent cult film, this satirical documentary tells the story of an ordinary and unknow…
This is the tale of what happened to the Americanized Children of Holocaust survivors. The film includes the testimonie…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
A group of scientists make a journey across five continents as they search the sky for clues to the origins and the fut…
After 30 years of being out of his country, Iraqi filmmaker Kasim Abid returns to Baghdad on the eve of the American to…
Niko von Glasow was born disabled due to the side effects of the drug thalidomide. So were the eleven people he finds t…
A Dog's Life: A Dogamentary, a wacky and poignant documentary about the positive effects of the bond between dogs and h…
The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a cou…
Film director Mladen Matičević has just turned 40 and realized that he is not satisfied with his life. One day, as he i…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Moon is a ten-year-old girl. She writes books about a world where children can transform into animals and where magic a…
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
Best Documentary Films
