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…
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…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
After being suppressed during her childhood, the fierce feminist Kaouthar Darmoni fled to Europe to be a free woman. He…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
This serene documentary short film takes us to a small village in the north of Portugal. After a long time of absence, …
A religious young man’s identity is called into question when he visits a controversial conversion therapist.
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
Through the educational experience of a school in a popular neighborhood in Seville, Spain, this documentary shows the …
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
A rarely discussed topic emerges in this documentary through the testimonies of young men from ethnic minorities in Tur…
This inspiring documentary tells the success story of a group of women from rural India who defied patriarchy through t…
This unique film follows the musician and folk dancer Clark Wang as he prepares his own "green burial" before his death…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
Through various pieces of contemporary dance, this short film illustrates the historical evolution of the treatment of …
This is the story of Gan HaShlosha, better known as the “Sakhne”, one of the largest, most famous and most visited park…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
This documentary not only reviews the work of the revolutionary and controversial choreographer Dave St. Pierre, it al…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
Black Sheep follows two brothers from the North of England and their adolescent curiosity for the EDL - a right-wing st…
Director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian town, where she is confronted with traditional views of…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
Best Documentary Films
