This short documentary film gives us access to the showers of a public school bathroom in Norway. A film about identity…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
In 1976, a 19-year-old daughter of a senior Communist official in Slovakia was found dead and raped. Since then, seven …
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
Through stories told by the protagonists themselves, this animated documentary tells the unknown interstices of African…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
For decades, Uzzi Ornan has been an activist against religious coercion in Israel. In the autumn of his life, he still …
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
This experimental film mixes contemplative observations of the interior of Silicon Valley homes with actorly reflection…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In this experimental short, Ana and a group of young people in a park have a lot to tell us about voyeurism, human conn…
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
Best Documentary Films
