A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
Next to a majestic forest, in the southeast of Cameroon, the inhabitants of a village survive with their prosaic activi…
In Havana, a former military bunker serves as a meeting place for Cuban gay men. Among shadows and gnawed walls, they t…
When her parents are assigned to China, seven-year-old Rebeka embarks on an unforgettable journey to Guangzhou. This is…
Will little Rebeka go down the slide? We'll find out in this fleeting but beautiful short film shot on black and white …
After leaving Spain to escape Franco's regime, Serafin found in Berlin the possibility to be himself freely. Gay, color…
When a child dies in a remote Afro-descendant Colombian village, two artisans must make a traditional drum for the fune…
Inspired by Aristophanes's "The Birds", this experimental piece provokes an encounter between two humans and these wing…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
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…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
Boxer by day, nightclub watchman by night, Christ prepares for his next fight in the ring while in the streets of Libre…
They are obsessive, insatiable and extremely imaginative. Meet the Japanese Star Wars fanatics and their passion for co…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Immersed in a forest on the island of Corsica, a veteran shepperd wanders among animals and a woman confronts her visio…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Premiered at the prestigious Visions Du Reel, this short film tells the story of a day in the life of Makenzy, a boy li…
In addition to boxing, Sergio Palma also liked to sing and write. But as a world boxing champion, that was a facet that…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Could we define happiness? An ordinary man with a penchant for philosophy after the 1979 Islamic revolution ponders thi…
Based on the poem The Fallen Oak, by poet Giovanni Pascoli, this experimental short film reflects on the relationship b…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Inspired by Skateistan, Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, this emotional feature-length documentary is a journe…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
Ambulance drivers in Karachi, Pakistan, wait in tranquility until they are called into action. The images of the emerge…
This posthumous portrait follows the trail of Uruguayan composer Alfredo Zitarrosa. Banished by a bloody dictatorship, …
This episode of UN In Action gives voice to the Hadzabe, the last hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, who are fighting f…
The history of an entire town converges in one period of the year: Holy Week. This documentary gives a subtle chronolog…
Blood, punches, jumps and screams. These are the kind of things we will see when the fighters face each other in the in…
This episode of UN In Action highlights women's contribution to world peace through the testimony of two women who are …
This episode of UN In Action focuses on a major current environmental issue: how to reduce the troubling carbon emissio…
Directed and narrated by the mythical filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés, this documentary rescues the story of the anonymous Bol…
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
Best Documentary Films
