The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
As the future of Russia hangs in the balance in the impending presidential election, the inhabitants of a Siberian vill…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
This film transports us to the jungle heart of Brazil, where the Ãwa indigenous people tell us their story of forced mi…
A congress bill promises to return the lands to those affected by violence in Colombia. The filmmaker visits this ghost…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Shot with the subtlety of an avid observer, this film documents the creations of twenty comic books creators during the…
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
After the murder of a Buddhist art teacher in southern Thailand, three filmmakers make a journey through the region to …
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
A young girl returns home after from a Youth Educational Center in Lodz. On the eve of her 18th birthday, the fears tha…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
Best Documentary Films
