The film depicts the aspirations and anxieties of a young Algerian smuggler transporting fuel by mule, from his village…
A captivating portrait of three characters in three different Mediterranean countries united by a single passion: the m…
A Uruguayan Navy vessel crosses the southern Atlantic Ocean towards Antarctica to supply a military base. A sensory jou…
An atmospheric portrait of Port Nolloth, a place that was once a chimera of diamond mining in South Africa and now stru…
A rich man decides to build a house with the help of a native family in the middle of a lost, almost impossible to brea…
A woman runs a shelter for domestic animals in the snowy heights of the city of Rasht, Iran.
A poetic exploration of the eastern Pyrenees in Catalonia, the home of a population of men and women smaller than usual.
A look at four barbershops located in Raval, a neighborhood in Barcelona’s old town. These four small businesses of for…
Ghassem Takdehgham believes that he has invented the cure for cancer, an herbal medicine that he has been preparing for…
Tova does not believe in love but exercises her matchmaker job with an admirable passion. Diagnosed with muscular dystr…
Rafael is the projectionist of the last adult movie theater in Madrid. He believes that every day he can do his job bet…
A dissection to the great machinery of sea shipping, an industry that allows us to obtain all the products we consume. …
Niko von Glasow was born disabled due to the side effects of the drug thalidomide. So were the eleven people he finds t…
In the ruined cemetery in Gorlice, in Southern Poland, there is the grave of the tzaddik, a holy master, forgotten year…
Directors Sam De Jong and Sjoerd Oostrik follow three youngsters immersed in the urban environment during the particula…
Struggling along an unforgiving dirt path, drivers Yura and Vitalik haul supplies to waiting villagers in an aging tank…
Golos is a collection of stories told by, and about the people of Ukraine; exploring from a unique perspective the natu…
When A Balinese girl is denied permission to marry outside of her clan, there is a traditional solution for the family …
Every year, thousands of people slip through the net of social care provision into a dark, lonely and often dangerous u…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
After a complicated period of pushing back waves of anxiety by overindulging in alcohol and pills Swedish painter Lars …
Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectru…
Mountains have been a natural haven for men for thousands of years. But life there is hard, difficult, slow, repetitive…
Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the…
An American stealth-bomber pilot shot down over Serbia meets his enemy a dozen years later, in peace, and in friendship.
The camera is the silent witness to the last weeks before Svetlana Donskova succumbs to her illness. We follow her slow…
Film director Mladen Matičević has just turned 40 and realized that he is not satisfied with his life. One day, as he i…
Between 1950 and 1966 thousands of men moved up to the Alps in the Valais, a natural landscape of rocks and ice. They b…
ALL WE EVER WANTED is a film about young, creative, ambitious people living the big-city-life. They seem to have it all…
Imagine a remote Roma village in Hungary, where 98 percent of the population is unemployed. Drinking water and public l…
Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century he photographed bums, worker…
A visit to Bloorcourt, one of the most cosmopolitan areas of Toronto, where immigrant entrepreneurs from all over the w…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
A day in the life of Tatyana Prokopenko, a courageous woman from Mailuu-Suu, an all-but ghost town in the former Soviet…
A touching and often funny observational documentary about a charming couple in their twilight years, who have lived in…
In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nun…
Through an entertaining interview with advertisement genius Tony Segarra, this dynamic educational documentary explores…
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
The inhabitants of this small rural village in the north of Portugal may have emigrated to another place, but here they…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Ida is a young Norwegian woman, struggling with a turbulent emotional life caused by emotionally unstable personality d…
Daniel is a young man. Daniel is a student and a writer. Daniel is also a pedophile. He is in love and keeps no secret …
A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a fa…
Joanna is a film by Aneta Kopacz about Joanna Salyga, a young woman with cancer with only three months to live, and her…
A veteran Georgian wrestling champion faces his biggest challenge in the autumn of his life: loneliness. As a good unde…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
Timo Novotny labels his new project an experimental music documentary film, in a remix of the celebrated film Megacitie…
Best Documentary Films
