A quarter-century after the Yugoslav war split Višegrad's Muslim and Serbian children, two former educators embark on a…
A visually striking 16mm journey through Kazakhstan's abandoned Soviet-era industrial sites, revealing the lingering im…
Nearly a decade later, director Gerd Kroske revisits the Leipzig street sweepers from his 1990 film. Now disconnected a…
On the eve of Tunisia's presidential election, a hair salon becomes a microcosm of the country's political and social t…
In Bosnia, a filmmaker with language impairment bonds with a war-deafened fisherman, forging an unlikely and profound f…
A Portuguese filmmaker explores Ethiopia's ancient capital, uncovering the vibrant Timkat ritual and its powerful expre…
A woman explores the blurred line between human and animal through the intimate bonds four women share with their pets.
In Paraíba's Monteiros community, the pack eagerly awaits a feast promised to São Lázaro.
A teenager's camera captures the poignant final years of his grandparents' lives, focusing on his grandmother's battle …
Hidden cameras reveal the grotesque and terrifying surveillance state of communist Poland, where Big Brother invades ev…
A young woman tirelessly supports her jailed boyfriend, balancing love, contraband, and long drives to keep their bond …
In snowy Montreal, a night at the lost and found reveals that sometimes what we lose is just the tip of the iceberg.
A woman's journey of connection through the lens of a camera explores the bittersweet reality of familial bonds stretch…
Unfolds the transformative journey of a couple, once entrenched in the Naxalite guerrilla movement in India, as they st…
This is a striking visual essay that explores the harsh realities of industrial fishing and its capitalist roots, revea…
In this film, the simple life of the astronomer Bernardo Riedel, a telescope maker, is interspersed with galactic oppor…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
Haunted by a mysterious May night, Rafael's life is suspended in time, as he grapples with the shadowy figures that cha…
A young film director travels back to his home country, Venezuela, to create a film based on his estranged father's lif…
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…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
In the quiet interior of his studio, a Ukrainian painter draws portraits of Kiev that delineate the recent tumultuous p…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
A theater group in Zagreb rehearses a play inspired in a murder case of a 12-year-old girl that occurred 25 years earli…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Best Documentary Films
