In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
What happens when a traditional musician and a heavy-metal rocker come together to create something unique? In this doc…
This music documentary delves into 15 years of history of the famous Macedonian band Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici (Cult…
The town of Kiruna, in northern Sweden, is collapsing due to mining activity. This documentary follows its characters a…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
Unveiling a little-known version of the beginning of World War II, this informative documentary brings to light the her…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Chinese descendants in Serbia may go unnoticed in a rural farm, small retail stores or as employees in a mall. Will the…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, …
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
In a small village in western Russia all the inhabitants celebrate a day in which the mourning for a dead person turns …
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
This episode of UN in action shows how the UN tries to recover the city of Mosul (Northen Irak) from devastation and ex…
This episode of UN In Action is only a quick look at what the UN agencies are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisi…
For the first time, a forest route stretching from Germany to Romania is the scenery of a bikepacking race. This docume…
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
A Russian folk tale about a woman saint gives way to a performance exercise by a group of young women inside a house fu…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Pablo Lecuona, an Argentinian with visual disability, introduces us to a digital library that has adapted hundreds of t…
This is a portrait of a young Chinese man filmed over the course of several years, from his fervent patriotism in his s…
Amid the idyllic landscape of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Redz works every day on his small plot to earn a livi…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
With a grainy and visceral look, this documentary follows the irreverent Jay Wade, a steamfitter in New York who has a …
This short film takes us to post-apocalyptic New York built on a famous video game. Together with a group of snipers, w…
This experimental short film reflects on the points of view that exist on reality through a kind of "guided tour" by a …
Using footage filmed by intrepid cameramen, in the middle of the firing line in battle, this propaganda film documents …
The artistic boom in New York during the 70's and 80's through the personal experience of a group of friends and artist…
This propaganda film commissioned by the United States government was shown to the troops that would occupy Germany jus…
Interspersing footages of the present and the past of Finland, this experimental short film uses various editing techni…
The sixth film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga introduced US soldiers and audiences to Japan's invasion of China and…
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
Three people that have suffered racist and fascist attacks in Germany during the last decades decide that these crimes …
This documentary was conceived to enter the mind of an elderly Armenian suffering from Parkinson's. Through Cinema, we …
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
In the third installment of the Why We Fight series, director Frank Capra describes Hitler's deceptive strategy to conq…
Desert, mythical, twilight. This visual contemplation is a kind of silent western about life in the landscape of Alente…
Best Documentary Films
