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 …
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Sometimes frantic, sometimes thoughtful, this documentary, as educational as it is entertaining, is a journey through t…
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
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…
In the Cerro Rico mines in Bolivia, three humble women try to survive in a microcosm hostile to women. And dynamite is …
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
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…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
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…
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…
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…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Best Documentary Films
