This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
"Die Thomaner" is one of the most prestigious youth choirs in the world. This documentary follows these promising talen…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
A lone man begins to play with the objects left in this apartment. As ephemeral characters and dances come to life, the…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Welcome to the mythical mountains of Peru. In its depths, the rites practiced by the locals perpetuate ancestral myths.…
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
A group of young skaters in Georgia build their own space of freedom in the crevices of urban architecture. Their daily…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
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…
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…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
This short film is a sensory journey through a moment in the life of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from San Francisco …
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
What could a former prisoner of the Stasi tell us about the state of civil rights in modern democracies? He gives his t…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
Best Documentary Films
