When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
Seen trhough the lens of her own daughter's camera, this film documents the grieving process of Mette Hannibal after he…
A sketcher and a photographer walk around a South Korean city in search of something we do not know. As they walk, a fa…
This raw and visceral portrait of Hip Hop artist Vianey Otero, also known as So Icey Trap, takes us into the fascinatin…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
Benin, West Africa. Three tourists are being photographed by local photographers, wearing extravagant masks of their ch…
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
No one knew that a great 75-year-old poet lived in a small town in eastern Serbia until his son begins posting videos o…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
After the lost of an experimental film made by the prominent Indian painter Akbar Padamsee, the filmmaker Ashim Ahluwal…
In their struggle to defend their human rights, the African street vendors who work in the streets of Barcelona underta…
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Present-day Bulgaria. After discovering the secret police files belonging to her grandfather, a man who joined the anti…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
A captivating short film about Thea, a 12-year-old Norwegian girl whose life is conditioned by epileptic seizures.
Those who lived first hand the struggle for the independence of Mozambique against the Portuguese colonists during the …
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Priorat, a region of Catalonia known for its vineyards, was about to disappear from the map of the best wines in the wo…
Paul Leeming and Pauls Irbins, two civilians who are preparing to be sent to Mars in 2024 by a private organization, im…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
The film documents the life aboard the ship Nicolai Pirogov, a floating hospital with the mission to bring medical atte…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
A few days away from death, terminally ill patients can spend their last days in a hospice in Seoul, South Korea. This …
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
An anonymous man explores the Mojave Desert in search of water stagnations around the abandoned buildings of a failed h…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
This is the biopic of James Randi, who was a magician and is known for his contrary positions towards the paranormal an…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
Best Documentary Films
