Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Shot in 16mm in the best style of the informational ethnographic documentaries of the 1980s, this is a portrait of the …
Shot on 16mm film, this short documentary is a fleeting glimpse of the iconic Aligre market in Paris. You've never seen…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
In charge of his father-in-law's stable, a prestigious jockey from Artois, France, prepares for a decisive horse race i…
Several years after being separated by prison, Louis and Annette revisit the memories and places that challenged their …
Nostalgic, mysterious, enigmatic. This experimental short film navigates between the idyllic days the filmmaker spent i…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
In a quest for independence, a group of amputees try out a new body with implants at a French rehabilitation center.
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
A survivor of sexual violence herself, Tatiana Mukanire uses music therapy to help other survivors. This is her story a…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
What happens when the process of making a piece of art itself becomes a work of art? Let's accompany the artist Terres …
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
Filmed only a year after the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, this film - named after the onomatopoeia its …
In the style of a travel video diary, a traveler (the director), documents the steps he takes in Tokyo on the eve of hi…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Best Documentary Films
