This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
In a small village in northern Iran, the life of the inhabitants revolves around Barre, a fighting bull that sustains t…
This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
This award-winning documentary follows the anarchistic punk band Pussy Riot in its struggle against president Putin’s c…
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
Two teenagers explore love, fear and passion amid the seemingly calm French countryside.
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
The Israeli filmmaker Tommer Heymann uses his video camera to document the relationship he has with his mother, a daugh…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
After his sudden death, in this documentary the famous Bolivian rapper Abraham Bojórquez (Ukamau y Ké) comes back to li…
This beautiful documentary tells the reunion of four Chinese musicians who reminisce the golden years of the symphony o…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
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…
Fall and Winter is an epic and spectacularly photographed journey across the U.S. in search of what is causing our unfo…
Today, more kids are going to adult prisons with longer sentences in the United States. This films poses a serious look…
The inside story of drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son.
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
As farmland is becoming scarce, large corporations secure their control through the land grabbing business. This docume…
Captured with a beautiful black and white film grain, this short film documents the process of a vinyl pressing plant.
This documentary follows the renowned clown Robert Gorodetsky around the city of St. Petersburg, a portrait of the less…
Is it absolutely necessary to abandon our artistic vein when society pushes us to find economic stability? This documen…
Through the diary written by his grandmother during her days of work in an ammunitions factory during the Second World …
This documentary explores how art and creativity can be vital values to end injustice and achieve peace in conflict zon…
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Karine is a professional embalmer. As the one in charge of freezing life in an inert body, every day is a battle for pe…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
This documentary takes us to several countries to show us how Muslim men around the world are challenging the tradition…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
Best Documentary Films
