When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
Four people who have opted for plastic surgery to correct their bodies tell us about this experience in their personal …
Cancer survivor Melanie Griffith narrates this gripping and educational documentary about the invention that could save…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
In a small town in Mexico, a doctor goes from house to house healing the sick. All free of charge.
Based on the scientific discovery of best-selling author Dr. Elaine Aron this documentary sheds light on the innate tra…
In one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, a man faces a long quarantine in the solitude of his apartment. …
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Filmed during the lockdown, this independently-made documentary follows five Indian doctors fighting COVID in the Unite…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
A renowned TV host uncovers the secrets of an iconic game show on the former East German television, back in the sixtie…
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
This documentary follows the hectic daily life of a pediatric physiatrist responsible for the air medical urgency on wh…
After beating cancer, Sean Swarner takes on a major life challenge: conquering the North Pole and definitely becoming a…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Given the little action of the state to support those who suffer from Parkinson's, a group of people try to manage thei…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
Through an educational approach, this documentary transports us to the mountains of Mexico to shows us the sustainable …
Through a thorough research, this exciting documentary reveals how the tobacco industry operates to maintain its demand…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This documentary makes visible the social problem that has caused the cultivation of opium in Myanmar and the desperate…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
As the multiracial population increases in North America, mixed race blood cancer patients face the challenge of findin…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
In New Zealand, three people seek answers about life on earth through extraordinary experiments, such as the constructi…
An intimate portrait of Sargy Mann, one of the most extraordinary painters of our time.
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
The film documents the life aboard the ship Nicolai Pirogov, a floating hospital with the mission to bring medical atte…
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
Sky, a boy with a severe hearing impairment, takes on the daily challenge of being a normal child.
Best Documentary Films
