Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Are we really sure that planet earth is round? The intrepid Mike "Rocketman" Hughes prepares to go into space on a rock…
A filmmaker has a recurring nightmare: machine guns killing people. In this experimental essay, he makes sense of these…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
How long can a human being remain alive underwater? For Goran Čolak, the world champion in free diving, the meaning of …
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
This peaceful and light-hearted film shows us how life in old age flows in present-day Cuba through three elderly music…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
This documentary connects the parallel experiences of two films that were shot in Barcelona in 1969: Count Dracula, pla…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
The paths of a turtle from Syria and a soldier from Germany cross in this curious film about war and the relationship b…
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
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 makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
Best Documentary Films
