Documentary Films

Genres

Rural Life Documentaries
10

Islander

Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
9.3

Late Afternoon In Alentejo

Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
9

There Once Was An Island: Te Henua e Nnoho

A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
9.4

Holy Cow

A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
8

Sisters Of The Trees

Tree planting in Rajasthan, India, has become a symbol of freedom in the middle of the desert. Families in this communi…
9

The Good Night

Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
10

Brothers

Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
8

Argentinian Lesson

8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
8

Mekong - Parana, The Last Laotians

This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
9

Artel

Documentary master Sergei Loznitsa makes an observational exploration of a fishing community in the White Sea, where vi…
9.5

Kamchatka - The Cure for Hatred

Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
8

Chidra

This documentary gives us a never-before-seen access to a mysterious ritual of purification practiced in northern India.