In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Seen from above, on the sands of the California desert there are geometric traces that precede the closest civilization…
This observational documentary follows a man who works in the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay. But on the…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
Sahid does not like to wait anymore in a centre for immigrants that is due to close soon. With the help of his friend F…
Donus Return follows the life of Jérôme Bastion, who has been correspondent for Radio France International in Istanbul …
Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores a singing tradition of mysterious power called the R…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
To make contact with distant beings, wether ghosts, birds or radio listeners on the other side of the world, is the onl…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
A specific geographical point, a house on a street in Belgium, is the starting point to rescue memories and reflections…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
The film enters a worn out building inhabited by hundreds of refugees from the conflict between Abkhazia and Georgia, w…
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
This short documentary follows Geoffrey, a lonely octogenarian, as he finds a new life inside a macabre cabaret-theatre…
In order to release a documentary that unveils the implementation of banned pesticides in banana plantations in Central…
In 1950, Frans Swinkels and his friend Broer left their native Dutch village to embark on a bicycle trip to Rome. 60 ye…
Rafael is the projectionist of the last adult movie theater in Madrid. He believes that every day he can do his job bet…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
Though set in Quito, Ecuador, this languid documentary is more preoccupied with the ghosts of European history and with…
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striv…
Khadija, an extraordinary wedding videographer and young divorced mother in Morocco, moves back and forth from her conf…
"While Ceausescu was alive, we knew who was good (the West and the United States) and who was evil. Since then, things …
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Joana is an energetic and slightly rebellious Portuguese teenager. She is also the young mother of a girl whose father …
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
This film follows Rafael Correa during an arduous political campaign in his aim to be reelected as president of Ecuador…
Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologisi…
Covering a span of 35 years in the life of Honza, a man born “on camera” in 1974. This film shows not only the life of …
The inhabitants of this small rural village in the north of Portugal may have emigrated to another place, but here they…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Through the creations of various contemporary artists, the film rehearses an inspiring exploration of the relationship …
Best Documentary Films
