Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
What was the world like before human kind set foot in it? This short film contemplates the apparently unspoiled landsca…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
Photographs, travel videos, a female voice-over. Filmmaker Nora Särak creates a colorful and fresh collage to talk abou…
Halfway between a making-of film and an cinematic essay on the process of a film workshop directed by Abbas Kiarostami,…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
When a European man lands on a tropical island in Tanzania, we hear his reflective voice through the letters he sends t…
Visually powerful, this film essay discusses intimate and collective memory through the underwater images of the flagsh…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
Multidisciplinary artist Tanja Deman takes us on a contemplative film essay on the Adriatic Sea to reflect on the clima…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
With an important use of the subtitle as a form of expression, this experimental short film is a dissertation on the so…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Shot in stunning black and white, this is a cinematic immersion that unveils nature with its creatures and elements in …
A filmmaker is stranded at the airport in Dakkar, Senegal. In this short film, she launches images of this journey spun…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
When his film project on the figure of Hercules was rejected in the former East Germany, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck manage…
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
Using material from a mythical silent film that served as a manifesto of the Art Deco movement, this experimental essay…
This film essay presents five different atmospheres and stories in a planet that is torn between decadence and resistan…
Best Documentary Films
