Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
With the Bolivian people as the collective protagonist, this mythical film documents the popular resistance to the dict…
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…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
More than five decades later, two actors make a dramatized reading of the letters that the poets Anja Plaschg and Laure…
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…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Through a compelling contemplative approach, this film follows the people living inside the caldera of the volcano Pico…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
Through the old objects of a house in Portugal and the letters sent among relatives during the past century, director J…
A musical stands as the best cinematic genre to express the historical conflict that vibrates beneath the epidermis of …
In order to release a documentary that unveils the implementation of banned pesticides in banana plantations in Central…
Two cousins from a close-knit rural community have opposing plans to develop their homeland on South Africa's Wild Coas…
Fall and Winter is an epic and spectacularly photographed journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfo…
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striv…
Joana is an energetic and slightly rebellious Portuguese teenager. She is also the young mother of a girl whose father …
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actress…
Within a year, Neil Platt goes from being a healthy man to becoming completely paralysed from the neck down, thanks to …
Best Documentary Films
