A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
A team of teenagers from a marginalized indigenous Mexican community prepare to compete in the International Basketball…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
How do the descendants of Hitler's high-ranking generals live in the present? This documentary investigates the soul of…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
The bucolic setting of a river in the middle of a dense forest poses an existentialist scenario. Several characters imm…
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
In her sixties, Gwendolyn, a three-time weightlifting world champion, prepares for her next tournament while battling c…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
Why is it so important to be pretty? Why does the gaze of others matter so much? This personal documentary explores the…
Through a patient observation, this film takes us into the underworld of Bolivian miners, specifically the ancestral Ce…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
An old woman from Mong Htet, in northern Shan State in Myanmar, looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her …
Denis is in his final year at the Ukraine’s National Music Academy. He faces his graduation exam, in which he has the c…
While her mother cuts tea in a nearby field, Bahri and Damla, two children from a small village in the Turkish mountain…
The filmmaker Sara Broos invites us to this beautiful poetic catharsis, full of art and contemplation, about the relati…
An Austrian Jew in his nineties lives in the solitude of his wealthy house in Malawi. This film shows us his life in th…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Inspired by the novel by Svetlana Alexievitch, this documentary is an intimate gaze at the faces of survivors who recou…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
With their tenacity and total commitment on the rugby field, the players of The Sydney Convicts prove that it is possib…
This unique documentary, full of humor and irreverence, follow the traces of the members of "Gelitin", an Austrian arti…
When no one sees them, two men repair parts of the Dutch railway even in the most hidden corners. But how does this har…
In Havana, a former military bunker serves as a meeting place for Cuban gay men. Among shadows and gnawed walls, they t…
Didn't know flying motorcycles existed? This adventure documentary follows two intrepid microlight aircrafts riders as …
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Twenty years after World War II, Norway is once again living in fear after a series of terrorist attacks. It is 1965 an…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
Filmmaker Frédéric Ramade follows a curious shaman on his tour throughout France. The trip will be a meeting of seeming…
Best Documentary Films
