The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
With a sexual reassignment surgery, Rosa Maria, a 59-year-old transsexual woman, seeks to complete her transition after…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
In this heartwarming short film, filmmaker Elisabeth Aspelin films the everyday life of her two young children: Karla a…
This inspiring documentary tells the success story of a group of women from rural India who defied patriarchy through t…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
In this documentary short we accompany the musicians of the Unterbiberger Hofmusik, a band that mixes traditional Bavar…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
What would happen if you entered a nocturnal Athens that you did not imagine? Political, human, unpredictable. This doc…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
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.…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
This is the second part of Mikael Wiström's trilogy on the Barrientos Family. The film focuses on the relationship betw…
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Descendant of Italian mobster, party man, maker of costumes and shows of all kinds, this documentary also shows another…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
This short film uses the perspective of three military drone pilots to see life differently. Pixelated, distant, dehuma…
In the remote mountains of central Japan, a Zen Buddihist Master has been helping people return from the limbo of depre…
Three prodigious Caribbean pianists located in Havana, New York and Las Canarias, Spain, make a tribute to Ernesto Lecu…
This documentary was conceived to enter the mind of an elderly Armenian suffering from Parkinson's. Through Cinema, we …
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
Best Documentary Films
