In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
Ana, a seller of religious calendars and rosaries, Zorka, her inmmediate contender, and The Square we they work, are an…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
Filmed in a contrasting black and white, this short film documents life in a tyre recycling workshop in Myanmar. In thi…
A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
In this atmospheric animated short film, the wounds of the real estate business in Bogotá are left open after an incide…
ISIS has carried out violent offensives against the Kurdish Yazidis, kidnapping women, selling them and raping them. Na…
TAN (Body in Farsi) is an experimental documentary confronting the relation between physical and social body within two…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
A rarely discussed topic emerges in this documentary through the testimonies of young men from ethnic minorities in Tur…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
With a strong militant signature, this film documents the struggle of the defenders of the last independent cinema of I…
Through a meticulous investigation, this film documents the struggle of a small coastal community of Ireland against th…
This animated short film depicts the harsh reality for the prisioners inside Honeheck, a jail for women in former East …
The pass of time has left a blank space in a sentence written on the facade of a humble rural house in China: "Only__is…
The film follows four young Brazilians around their humble neighborhood where they live between work and fun, crime and…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Three stories from Sierra Maestra, Cuba, unravel on the day of the 52nd anniversary of the Revolution. What will the li…
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
This film shows social and visual changes affecting Pirimze, a six-floor building from the Soviet era, built especially…
After being suppressed during her childhood, the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni fled to Europe to be a free woman. He…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
In this classic of the late forties, the director Sydney Meyers captures the harsh life of a black boy from Harlem that…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
In their struggle to defend their human rights, the African street vendors who work in the streets of Barcelona underta…
The portrait of Giovanni, a man who lives from the scraps he sells in his Italian city while the ghosts of eviction and…
Through a kind of intimate trial, we unveil the painful case of Moriom, a young Bangladeshi woman with a mysterious loo…
Coming out as a product of the sensationalist and shocking "Mondo" film series, this documentary shows with consequent …
In the early hours of the first day of the New Year, the camera takes to the streets of Santiago, Chile, in search of t…
The film reveals a little known side of Samsung, known for its mobile phones and other electronics, a company that in S…
The film takes place in the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. Forced to join the Palestinian Liberation Army, …
This courageous documentary directed by female filmmaker Alka Sadat is a close follow-up to a group of Afghan Commodes …
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
The film is a delicate gaze at Mina de São Domingos, a desolate village in Portugal whose past mining economy barely br…
A look at the life of several men who in the 60s and 70s left the calm of the province in Lebanon to join the economic …
In the midst of the calm and minimalism of an African rural landscape, the days of a young volunteer aid-worker go by t…
Set in an isolated “jungle” in Calais, Transit Zone follows Teefa, a young man who fled the regime in Sudan with big dr…
A woman runs a shelter for domestic animals in the snowy heights of the city of Rasht, Iran.
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
A musical stands as the best cinematic genre to express the historical conflict that vibrates beneath the epidermis of …
Musician and singer from London Wayne Paul returns to the East London neighborhood where he grew up, a place where a vi…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
The journey of a blind guitarist in "pacified" Uganda, counterpointed by testimonies from survivors of Joseph Kony's LR…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
Best Documentary Films
