The pioneer of documentary photography Saul Leiter invites us to his department in New York City to reflect on his care…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
This is the second part of filmmaker Kasuhiro Soda's follow-up to the Japanese politician Yama-san, who is now trying t…
Amid an apparent calmness, this film makes a portrait of a fragmented Nicaraguan family thorugh Estela and Sebastián, w…
Patrice Fortier lives among crops of carrots, rutabagas, various types of berries and other plants. This documentary is…
Being gay in Cameroon, you have to face the daily struggle of not being able to express your physical love publicly, in…
Through an acute investigation across several continents, this documentary educates us about the lithium, the mineral t…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
This film is a unique view from within the most massive, longest, and politically significant student protest in Croati…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
Even A Bird Needs A Nest is a documentary film about forced evictions in Cambodia, a phenomenon that is raging througho…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
To reflect on the atomic bomb and the human race's apparent mania for self-destruction, this film essay takes us to thr…
This mysterious short film is a kind of night road trip across downtown Cairo spun by the account of the dreams of its …
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
A Moroccan man traveled to Spain, to another land, another sea, with the certainty of finding a better city, but he did…
A series of impressive photographs of Algerian landscapes and the voices of its inhabitants reflect the traces of the A…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary delves into a foster home for mixed-race youth in Ukraine and…
When three young friends set out on a journey they discover being on your own isn’t as easy as it seemed.
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
Having the citizen revolts in 2009 in Iran as the starting point, this documentary reviews the political and cultural c…
This documentary takes us into the culture of the Evuzok, inhabitants of southern Cameroon who through the ritual of th…
After surviving 9 months and 9 days drifting in the Pacific Ocean, three Mexican castaways face greater dangers when th…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into the peaceful and thoughtful life in a retirement home that exists i…
Award-winning filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda makes this two-part follow-up to Japanese politician Yama-san as he tries to defe…
Chanaika, a girl who prepares to dance at the Caribbean carnival in Rotterdam, exposes her bravery after surviving dome…
An Iranian director based in Germany visits his country with a mission: to show Iran beyond the negative stereotype tha…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
Shot in secret and with exclusive access to the interior of the PKK guerrillas in Turkey, this documentary makes visibl…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
This gem is the first documentary feature film about Robert Frank, with exclusive access to the places, memories and wo…
In this hilarious film, an old Serbian peasant woman tries to learn how to operate a used cell phone. Set in a small vi…
Through family photographs, quotidian landscapes and memories, this film portrays a generation and a time of misery and…
The voices of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave narrate the lives of siblings Erika and Klaus Mann. Both gay, they ma…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck undertakes an investigation that begins in the realm of art and becomes political when a series…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Swedish Filmmaker Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with a Peruvian family after 16 years of absence. This is the fi…
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
Best Documentary Films
