In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
Fall and Winter is an epic and spectacularly photographed journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfo…
The inside story of drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son.
What happens if one crime is committed to prevent another? This documentary shows us how environmentalist Ken Ward is w…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Karine is a professional embalmer. As the one in charge of freezing life in an inert body, every day is a battle for pe…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
This documentary takes us to Portugal and Spain to show us three incredible eco-sustainable life experiences based on s…
Through exclusive interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, this documentary tells the story of the first image captured of …
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
This documentary takes us on a train on the trans-siberian railway, a distance of 10,000 kilometers where we meet passe…
A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
As his country heads towards high-risk elections, Emmanuel Botalatala, the Minister of Garbage of Kinshasa (DR Congo), …
In the beautiful Vietnamese bay of Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a family faces its imminent separation when t…
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
Ten minutes in the atelier of a painter is just enough time for a dance of drawn objects to invade the entire screen. A…
Airports, the summits of modern society. In this captivating animated documentary we become travelers immersed in the v…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
This creative documentary uses cardboard puppets to provide a depiction of the most hated government agency in Sweden: …
This documentary takes a look at Europe through the eyes of a six-year-old child, Terra. A beautiful film that question…
In the Philippines, the healer Alex Orbito has done miracles healing terminally ill patients through the so called "psy…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
Dissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his moth…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
Best Documentary Films
