Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
A young man decides to make the journey his adopted brother could not finish. Years ago, his brother died in a plane cr…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
Constructed mostly of intimate micro-narratives of relations between people and institutions, this unique film unites a…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian artist Frane Milčinski Ježek, whose satirical poems and songs from t…
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
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.
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
In this film, the simple life of the astronomer Bernardo Riedel, a telescope maker, is interspersed with galactic oppor…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
The film is a delicate gaze at Mina de São Domingos, a desolate village in Portugal whose past mining economy barely br…
Two sisters talk over the internet after the recent death of their father. As one of them remains in Brasil and the oth…
A musical stands as the best cinematic genre to express the historical conflict that vibrates beneath the epidermis of …
An orphanage in the village of Chitima, Mozambique, becomes a place of transformation for twenty young women who day by…
After a complicated period of pushing back waves of anxiety by overindulging in alcohol and pills Swedish painter Lars …
Joana is an energetic and slightly rebellious Portuguese teenager. She is also the young mother of a girl whose father …
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
The inhabitants of this small rural village in the north of Portugal may have emigrated to another place, but here they…
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actress…
Best Documentary Films
