Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
Shooted over the course of nine years, this intimate film documents the fatherhood, the breakup of his relationship and…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
This is the extraordinary story of Bruno Banani, the only inhabitant of the small island of Tonga, in the South Pacific…
Filmed over two years, this film documents life inside the studio of three artists and how the death of one of them ope…
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
A wave of suicides among young people from indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon triggers this documentary in …
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
Lulú lives with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of her husband and son after they were kidnaped 5 years …
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
Rolf and Renata leave their home and embark with their young children to live with indigenous communities in various pa…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
Following the myth of a religious leader who claims to be the reborn Jesus Christ. A mother and her three children move…
Marah, Noor, Mona and Betty have something in common, the love for speed and for their country. In this action-driven d…
Devastated during the Spanish civil war in the 30s, today the old town of Belchite only exists in its ruins and in the …
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
This documentary follows the producer of "Shakespeare Must Die", a film adaptation of Macbeth's, in his fight against t…
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
Malek, a Tunisian girl, wants to be a professional fencer when she grows up. Along with her best friend, Malek strives …
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Set in rural Thailand, this documentary follows an endearing elderly couple in their last years of life together. A min…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
Filmed across several continents, this film reveals how development aid in poor countries reproduce poverty and increas…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
Hilarious, shocking and informative at the same time, this bold documentary takes a historical look back at sex educati…
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
This is a filmed portrait of João Carlos Castanha, a 52 years old actor who is also gay, son, cross dresser and capable…
When the presidents of Mexico and France unveiled his chaquira mural at the entrance of the Louvre Museum, indigenous a…
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
Through the observation of three apes, filmmaker Jos de Putter encourages a reflection on the similarities between us a…
This HBO documentary film explores the issue of domestic violence and its impact on survivors. The film follows the sto…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
Full of humor and freshness, this film is a road movie across Finland that follows a group of Argentines who come to di…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
Structured in a selection of scraps of a diary, the director's voice takes us into his inner world, addressing his homo…
Best Documentary Films
