Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
This candid documentary shows us the process of creation a father and his son while they work in their respective paint…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
In Orleans, France, the inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. T…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
Confronted with the evidence that the Earth is not eternal, Ernesto is inspired by the Metatron's shape to design his o…
In this film we follow the Musical Director of the Paris Opera and the Paris Opera Orchestra during rehearsals for usta…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Shot during the dusk for two months in a row, in this film a disciple documents the daily life of his irreverent film p…
Seen trhough the lens of her own daughter's camera, this film documents the grieving process of Mette Hannibal after he…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
Safe Passage is a silent look at a historic passage between Iran and Iraq for pilgrims heading from one country to anot…
In a family of women, the corners of an old house are witnesses of the course of life. The older women go through the l…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
Known as one of the best dancers in Tehran and having been Iran's first female film director, Shahrzad's artistic caree…
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
In this film, the simple life of the astronomer Bernardo Riedel, a telescope maker, is interspersed with galactic oppor…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
A piglet named Caesar lives a happy life with a loving owner, which is very different from other piglets’ lives. But do…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
After finding her mother’s war diary written during II WW, a daughter discovers who she really was. A journey into the …
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
A girl of a Russian mother and an Azerbaijani father travels from Moscow to a small town in Azerbaijan to meet her pate…
1.500 deer remain in a huge farm built in the depths of a Hungarian forest. This documentary takes the pulse of the dyn…
The co-director of this film returns to the humble home of his family in Algeria after 10 years of absence, a reunion t…
An anonymous man explores the Mojave Desert in search of water stagnations around the abandoned buildings of a failed h…
The portrait of Giovanni, a man who lives from the scraps he sells in his Italian city while the ghosts of eviction and…
Loved and hated, Arthur Chu tries to reinvent his life after his controversial participation in "Jeopardy!", the TV sho…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
A specific geographical point, a house on a street in Belgium, is the starting point to rescue memories and reflections…
When the summer is ending, three young people from the calm and languid south of Italy spend the days before an imminen…
A sketcher and a photographer walk around a South Korean city in search of something we do not know. As they walk, a fa…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
A contemplative and beautiful portrait of Berlenga Grande, a Portuguese island as paradisiacal as it is mystical.
Best Documentary Films
