Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
In a village divided, a dedicated caretaker seeks to rejuvenate an abandoned Catholic seminary, once a vibrant center o…
A man returns to his small village in Azerbaijan with a strange animal: a European cow. The arrival of the animal unlea…
Ana, a seller of religious calendars and rosaries, Zorka, her inmmediate contender, and The Square we they work, are an…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
This is the real life story about two former enemies who become blood brothers for life: Zahed Haftlang was an Iranian …
After being deprived of an ancient totem more than a hundred years ago, an indigenous family of the Easter Island sets …
Inspired by Depression-era folk songs, filmmaker Shelley Saywell and singer and activist Lorraine Segato set out to doc…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca are the main characters of this story. Poetry and music are the places of thei…
Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s white South African family tr…
The frenzied last decade of the West Berlin underworld, before the fall of the Berlin wall, was always famous but we ha…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film takes us into Casa Roshell, an underworld where the art of feminization and trans…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
Four mountaineers return to K2, the second highest mountain in the world, following the tracks of their parents, who pe…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
The image of a model on the box of an inflatable hair-dryinghood inspires the filmmaker Susanne Helmer a curious and im…
This film portrays the youth with fewer opportunities in Brussels through a public vocational school where the students…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
Reminiscing about the days of the repressive cultural revolution, the Chinese artist Mu Xin tells us in this documentar…
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
What is the future of learning?. Indian professor Sugata Mitra brings an innovative approach to education based on a de…
Pawel dedicates his life to finding the ideal sound hidden in everyday objects: wires, old toys, screws. This is a shor…
Three marching bands prepare for the traditional Mardi Grass parade in New Orleans, America's most musical city, and on…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Trapped in a gray and monotonous country, a girl dares to think of crossing the wall that separates her from what is ou…
A foreigner arrives in Cuba to elucidate what for him is a riddle from the western point of view: Why in Cuba can you g…
How do those who cannot see with their eyes conceive the world? What other perspectives of what surrounds us can we lea…
The inhabitants of a town in southern Belgium have clever ways of commemorating the First World War every day.
This gripping investigative documentary attempts to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a prisoner of war durin…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
According to statistics, 95% of all incarcerated people will come home. Director Tamara Perkins follows three men in th…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
Just twenty-four hours before the fight begins, a group of amateur women boxers prepare for their first time in the rin…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
Two exceptional female athletes and devoted mothers who use the power of water sports to defy gender inequality and cre…
Seen trhough the lens of her own daughter's camera, this film documents the grieving process of Mette Hannibal after he…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
Experience an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the groundbreaking HBO TV series "The Sopranos", as iconic stars re…
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
Best Documentary Films
