Through an educational approach, The Brave Class explores the dilemma of human language as a vital factor to construct …
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
The portrait of Giovanni, a man who lives from the scraps he sells in his Italian city while the ghosts of eviction and…
A ten-year-old transgender girl finds in a queer team of Roller Derby the confidence to continue her transition.
After having studied together at the University of Toulouse several years ago a Nigerian man and a French man meet once…
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…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
The documentary details the investigation carried out by journalist Edmundo Cruz, who cleared the mystery about the dis…
This short documentary follows Geoffrey, a lonely octogenarian, as he finds a new life inside a macabre cabaret-theatre…
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
A dissection to the great machinery of sea shipping, an industry that allows us to obtain all the products we consume. …
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to film the Northern Lights.
Every year, thousands of people slip through the net of social care provision into a dark, lonely and often dangerous u…
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…
Tong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with…
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
A music documentary about the punk band Hamac Cazíim, who come from an remote region of northern Mexico, fusing the mod…
A collage - portrait of the Spanish industrial music band Esplendor Geométrico.
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striv…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
Let the Street Be Heard explores the dynamics in the Mexican border town of Tijuana from the perspective of teenage gir…
In the San Pedro male prison of La Paz, Bolivia, 1500 prisoners coexist in a space originally designed for only 300 nun…
Daniel MacNee can't remember what the weather was like yesterday. Nor can he remember his own past. Since a devastating…
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden bo…
Leny came out of the closet aged 68. Since then she has thrown herself into lesbian life, making up for lost time. She …
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
A mother's emotional search for reconciliation with the Palestinian sniper who killed her son in the Israeli-occupied t…
This is a film portrait of a Latvian woman named Santa Claus, who shares her apartment with 33 animals: seven dogs, six…
This film is a poetic observation of the last survivors of the Aymara culture in the Surire salt flat, located in the C…
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 …
Filmmaker María Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story. When she was only 10 years ol…
Maher, a Palestinian man, a former political prisoner. He is an electrical engineer by profession but an artist at hear…
The young Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country's traditions, fear a…
Ida is a young Norwegian woman, struggling with a turbulent emotional life caused by emotionally unstable personality d…
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Daniel is a young man. Daniel is a student and a writer. Daniel is also a pedophile. He is in love and keeps no secret …
A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a fa…
On the south face of Annapurna, at 7,400 metres, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza is dying. His rope companion sounds the alarm. And…
At 60 km is a documentary about the dream of Mario Sabah and his two sons: Travel the world by the same old 1977 car. F…
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actress…
Albert Casals is a young man who has been in a wheelchair since suffering leukemia at the tender age of five. But this …
The story of the world's greatest hoaxer. An unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of Alan Abel, the n…
A veteran Georgian wrestling champion faces his biggest challenge in the autumn of his life: loneliness. As a good unde…
Best Documentary Films
