This short documentary shows those who visit the largest public park in southern Calcutta, India. In a society where th…
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Descendant of Italian mobster, party man, maker of costumes and shows of all kinds, this documentary also shows another…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
After spending more than twenty years in prison during the Soviet Union, a 71-year-old grandfather dedicates himself to…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
This emotional Oscar-nominated short film, follows the day-to-day of five seniors living in a retirement resort in Palm…
Welcome to a popular procession in Sardinia. A ritualistic - almost dreamy- observation of libertine demonstration that…
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
The effects of the Syrian conflict are being felt by the inhabitants across the ceasefire line in the Israeli Occupied …
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
This engaging documentary plunges into the fascinating life of John Healy, the renowned literary author, chess player, …
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
This documentary makes visible the struggle of the Ranqueles, an indigenous community in Argentina who have resisted th…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
Balcon De Europa is a tourist place in the coastal town of Nerja, Spain. This documentary is a discreet gaze at this vi…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
This documentary follows four outcasts in Montreal at night: Kye, Tobie, Paul, Kim. The four support each other and dru…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Best Documentary Films
