In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
For artists in 1960s New York, Greenwich Village was the place to be. Featuring interviews with stars like Woody Allen …
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This gem is the first documentary feature film about Robert Frank, with exclusive access to the places, memories and wo…
With direct access from the inside of the war against ISIS, this documentary follows two leaders of a group of Shiite v…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
Although apartheid ended more than twenty years ago, young people in South Africa are still fighting to eliminate discr…
After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop Idol has come to Afghanistan. This timely film follows the dramatic stories…
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
This beautiful documentary portrays a small ethnic community in Udmurtia, Russia, and its unique singing, a precious ar…
AleksEy and Valya are a couple that don't see each other often. He is a truck driver, and Vaya is used to wait for him …
Iraq Paper Scissors follows a unique transformation from uniform to pulp, from battlefield to workshop, and from warrio…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
Compassion and redemption are discovered by a man as he manages a mental asylum run by its own patients in Juárez, Mexi…
Halfway between videoclip and documentary, in this short film Violeta and Guillermo dance, kiss each other and talk in …
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
Prolific musician Petra Nachtmanova embarks on a journey from Berlin, through the Caucasus and Turkey, to Iran, in sear…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
A portrait of Paulo, a flight attendant who in the after-hours world is internationally known for personifying Gazelle,…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning poi…
This may be the most powerful portrait of a man's loneliness you will ever see. Inspired by the novel "Moby Dick", livi…
Palm D'Or winner Ken Loach directed this provocative and sensitive document on the poetic and artistic side of the Mine…
This film documents the situation of rescued dogs in Northeast Canada and especially in one of the animal shelters that…
This is the story of Allan and Patrick, two surfers that grew up together in Montauk, New York, who used to transport M…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
This documentary by filmmaker Rama Rau is a journey as raw as it is impressive to the golden years of the burlesque sce…
Through a stunning cinematography, in this documentary we follow two explores that embark on an unprecedented winter ex…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
Are we really sure that planet earth is round? The intrepid Mike "Rocketman" Hughes prepares to go into space on a rock…
This is a unique portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, wife of the great filmmaker Joris Ivens and a reference, along wi…
Saul's dad took him to work with him on a hot Summer day in 1950. What could go wrong? More than 60 years later, in thi…
Best Documentary Films
