In this award-winning documentary, survivors of the Srebrenica Genocide talk about the events leading up to the mass mu…
This Documentary chronicles the struggle of a family and hundreds of elephants in Botswana as they navigate the threats…
With the motto "Keep It Small, Keep It Simple", a movement of small independent pubs is swarming in the UK to try to ke…
Independent, disjunctive, incisive, this documentary makes an invisible portrait of Bansky, the most important - and an…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
Trapped in a gray and monotonous country, a girl dares to think of crossing the wall that separates her from what is ou…
Daniel MacNee can't remember what the weather was like yesterday. Nor can he remember his own past. Since a devastating…
Premiered at Locarno, this short film by multi-award-winning filmmaker Laila Pakalniņa is a visual testament of the lan…
29 years old Italian Enea really wants to have sex. As Italy doesn’t offer any legal solution to the desire of a person…
Four people who have opted for plastic surgery to correct their bodies tell us about this experience in their personal …
This film follows Arvo Pärt, the most acclaimed contemporary composer, in the staging of one of his compositions in col…
In post-genocide Rwanda, young Clementine's escape from home thrusts her into Kigali's dark underbelly, but amidst life…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
The inhabitants of a tourist area nestled in Chilean Patagonia are the faces of contradiction. Tourism flourishes while…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
This film essay presents five different atmospheres and stories in a planet that is torn between decadence and resistan…
When a female AI artist, sets out to explore masculinity in art, she inadvertently reveals a profound societal critique…
With his usual sharpness and critical sense, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck makes a revisionist essay about the interne…
Shot on three continents, this unique documentary follows the pioneer of avant-garde composer John Cage through miscell…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
A city is wrapped by fireworks at night. A cell phone goes out into the streets and films the face of a street boy. It …
Silent, incisive, radioactive. This short film, screened at Rotterdam and Locarno, follows the daily life of Sergey and…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
Clinging to their land, Matsumura and his old father remain in the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear plant. F…
Filmed over four years, this short film follows a group of young men who, amidst doubts, laughter and twists, give thei…
Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society with her famous experiment about racism. What start…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
This is the portrait of Ali Badri, an elderly Kurdish man who has learned to enjoy a humble and loving life despite his…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
Five hopeful migrants, trapped in Ceuta, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, grapple with mounting anxiety as they stand just…
MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning poi…
This film, winner of the Grand Prix of the prestigious Cinéma du Réel, documents the life of the young soldiers who swa…
A small village in Papua New Guinea faces the dilemma of leaving its ancestral lands due to the threat of a flood cause…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
Sixty years after being buried by Nazis in Poland, a Roma woman rises from her grave to tell us about the racism her pe…
Cell phones, paintbrushes and chance encounters. In Shanzhai, Hong Kong, this unusual story is spun by a group of copyi…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
In Amsterdam's outskirt trailer village, the city nomads—misfits and idealists—forge their own destinies, their stories…
American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) lived and ran with the Tarahumara Indians…
The inhabitants of this small rural village in the north of Portugal may have emigrated to another place, but here they…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Best Documentary Films
