The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York marked a milestone in the beginning of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. Th…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Daniel Burmeister, a bearded film buff, goes from town to town making ultra low-budget films starring the locals themse…
The Yongsan tragedy in South Korea claimed five lives that could have been avoided. This documentary delves into the de…
Blending footage from the pre-COVID19 world and during the pandemic, this film delves into the lives of a motley crew o…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
An international dispute is seen through the life of an Uruguayan woman. In this tragicomedy, Mirta is torn between two…
With the landscape of the Balkans as a backdrop, this documentary follows a family of Aromanians, an ethnic minority tr…
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
This musical documentary discovers the origin and contemporary presence of music from Argentina and Uruguay. Starring L…
Filmed in black and white, with animated brushstrokes inspired by his work, this is an intimate, yet irreverent portrai…
An American writer travels to Russia and discovers the lingering effects of Holodomor and The Great Famine - the Soviet…
Have we ever asked ourselves about the way we inhabit our cities? This film exposes the city habitat by contrasting it …
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
This documentary, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, is a visceral portrait of the irreverent youth of a small tow…
Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
A veteran botanist and his faithful disciple go into the Colombian jungle to examine its flora. This intimate film docu…
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
In the midst of a Cuba undergoing major changes, a young athlete is torn between committing herself to her track team o…
Every year, millions of birds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to their winter homes in Africa's tropical wetlands.…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
Jovica, a young man from Kosovo, among other things, dreams of emigrating and having a girlfriend to start a family. Bu…
In bucolic rural Germany, the lives of four German teenagers are about to change. Childhood is behind them and the firs…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Javier Heraud, poet and guerrilla fighter, lost his life at the age of 21 in the jungles of Peru, in 1963. In this docu…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
Seen from an European point of view, this ethnographic documentary is an educational and exciting journey through the i…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
Little by little, two characters take shape on the screen through objects, sounds and flavors. Who are they? What unite…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
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, …
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
Best Documentary Films
