Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
This observational documentary makes visible the faces behind the famous manhole covers on the streets of New York, whi…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
In search of a lost lover, a woman retraces the steps of her latest love affair in the streets of Salamanca ... through…
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
When thousands of people protest on the streets, television shows something very different. This animated short film is…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
Shortly after Trump was elected president, an Indian immigrant is killed in a hate crime in Kansas. His widow carries t…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
Best Documentary Films
