On the eve of the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian filmmaker Amr Bayoumi films a tree that begins to invade his balcony. His…
Among the most iconic musicians of the hardcore punk music scene in the United States are Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
With farmer suicides on the rise in India due to the appalling conditions for growing crops, could an NGO make up for t…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
Funny, technological, and happily nostalgic, this documentary is the gateway to the world of video game collectors in t…
A collector embarks on a road trip to complete the world's largest collection of nintendo video games.
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
This indie documentary delves into the daily lives of Gary Marinoff and Alan Shain, two quirky cult comedians from New …
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
With exclusive access inside Carnegie Hall, filmmaker Josef Astor documents the struggle to save its historic art studi…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
Are you ready for a fascinating tour around the Melbourne underground music scene? You will not regret it.
Independent, disjunctive, incisive, this documentary makes an invisible portrait of Bansky, the most important - and an…
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
Argentine filmmaker Iar Said shoots a set of tragicomic postcards documenting his aunt Flora, a 90-year-old woman who w…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
With a strong militant signature, this film documents the struggle of the defenders of the last independent cinema of I…
Shot during the dusk for two months in a row, in this film a disciple documents the daily life of his irreverent film p…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
Confronted with an alleged true photograph of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, a man begins an incessant investigation t…
The appearance of Leo "Bud" Welch on the American blues scenario at his 81 years of age took the fans of the genre by s…
After four decades since they left the rock scene in Lima, this documentary makes a retrospective of the musical phenom…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
In the late 70s, multimedia artist Stephen Seemayer documents the life of the young artists who began to inhabit the ab…
Best Documentary Films
