This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
Framing the Other is a documentary about a tourist whose comfortable ideas about taking photos of exotic tribal people …
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
This Oscar-Nominated animation illustrates the dilemma of Bill Babbitt, who must make a decision when he realizes his b…
Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
In this documentary, a boat acts as a metaphor to illustrate the following premise: technological advances could be the…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
Among the most iconic musicians of the hardcore punk music scene in the United States are Roger Miret and Vinnie Stigma…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
In an extravagant house in Paris, people gather for sexual ceremonies in luxurious environments.
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
In a time when women seem to be juggling the demands of career, family and beauty standards, a new overall fashion tren…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
This is more than just the biography of the editor of one of the most important films in history. It is a captivating j…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
Artist, professor, visionary. László Moholy-Nagy revolutionized the way art was created at the Bauhaus school in Weimar…
One courageous woman’s journey from undercover agent to First Lady and the untold story of the birth of a new nation.
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
A group of homeless people embarks on the Adventure of building an ocean-going yacht to sail on a trip around the world.
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
This is one of the first films that makes visible the Gorani people, Muslims settled in southern Kosovo who historicall…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
Three women, a wife, mother, and daughter, reveal the powerful transformations of grief into art through intimate cinem…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
This documentary closely follows a Roma family from a humble neighborhood of Macedonia while they make a living amid ec…
What is it like in a city where there is not a single cinema for ten million inhabitants? Faces and voices from Kinshas…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
Best Documentary Films
