Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Have you ever heard of cumbia music? This exciting road movie follows a group of filmmakers and musicians as they trave…
To stand up against discrimination, a group of gay men gather in downtown Seoul to sing in South Korea's only amateur g…
In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments.
The 1973 story of a Mexican captain's impulsive decision to enter the first regatta to circumnavigate the globe.
Tong Phuoc Phuc operates an orphanage in Nha Trang, central Viet Nam. He persuades expectant mothers from aborting with…
In the midst of a city that never stops building buildings, a man leaves his country life behind and decides to run in …
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
This documentary follows the prominent British artist Marc Quinn for more than a year in his life as he creates and exh…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
Set in Almadén, a decaying Spanish mining town, this beautifully photographed black-and-white film follows the life of …
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Bob Comber dreams of becoming the first person to cross the Sierra Nevada Wilderness Park in California in his wheelcha…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
Inspired by Depression-era folk songs, filmmaker Shelley Saywell and singer and activist Lorraine Segato set out to doc…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
Best Documentary Films
