Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
In the middle of a moment of uncertainty in his life, a young filmmaker undertakes a revealing trip from France to Gote…
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…
When a film roll gets damaged in the middle of a screening, a projectionist and a young apprentice must repair it quick…
A documentary about Henriette Zéphir, a french woman who began to paint “pushed” by a spiritual presence she felt by he…
The portrait of Yvonne Robert, a ninety-year-old woman with immeasurable wisdom who poured into naive painting all the …
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…
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to film the Northern Lights.
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
Black Sheep follows two brothers from the North of England and their adolescent curiosity for the EDL - a right-wing st…
A love story that begins when its lead characters, Antonio and Felisa, have been together for over 60 years and their d…
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
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 …
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actress…
Black Sun is a documentary based on the life of filmmaker and painter Hugues de Montalembert who was violently attacked…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
Within a year, Neil Platt goes from being a healthy man to becoming completely paralysed from the neck down, thanks to …
Premiered at IDFA, this documentary follows the struggle of Palestinian teenage boys trying to get back to life outside…
No one took much notice of Bugarach until a news story appears. It alleges that, when the Mayan apocalypse hits, Bugara…
An intimate and inspirational portrait of Segway inventor, Dean Kamen, his fascinating life, and his 15-year quest to s…
Best Documentary Films
