In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
In 1811, two bodies were found shot in Lake Wannsee, near Berlin. The German poet Kleist and a woman. What is known abo…
This unique documentary, full of humor and irreverence, follow the traces of the members of "Gelitin", an Austrian arti…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
In this Berlinale award-winning short film, a film crew shoots the tests that scientists are doing on laboratory mice. …
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Follow Del Keens, "the ugliest model in the world," in this humorous documentary that reflects on the historic dilemma …
How could Beethoven compose his best pieces after his deafness? This documentary is a thorough investigation into the e…
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
In 1998, the inhabitants of an entire town were resettled so that the brown coal underneath the village could be mined.…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
This beautiful film ventures to take a closer look at the naked body and the fragile spirit that lies within it. The fi…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
Best Documentary Films
