In the late 70s, multimedia artist Stephen Seemayer documents the life of the young artists who began to inhabit the ab…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
Conceived as a kind of documentary tragicomedy, this film takes us into the microcosm of a private resort in the Domini…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
Immersed in the middle of the Colombian jungle, surrounded by nature and the violence that gravitates in the area, Mr. …
Amanda and Viengsay, two young Cuban women, strive every day to continue their careers in the demanding world of ballet…
On the eve of the presentation of their next work, a piece about black homosexuality, this poetic documentary follows a…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
This documentary tells the compelling story of a mother and daughter who resolve to uncover their wartime past buried h…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
India’s invisible majority are poor yet literate in their own traditions and increasingly online. Ocean in a Drop is a …
Used by millions, YouTube is already the container of the world's imaginary. Filmmaker Dominic Gagnon makes a collage o…
In this classic of the late forties, the director Sydney Meyers captures the harsh life of a black boy from Harlem that…
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
An exorcist, a horse breeder, a stuntman. These are just some of the amazing characters you will meet at the electric a…
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
Black Sun is a documentary based on the life of filmmaker and painter Hugues de Montalembert who was violently attacked…
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
This inspiring documentary follows Suraj, an 11-year-old boy who works in the coal mines of northeast India, a confinem…
Banned in his home country, this documentary by young filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol is a crude and experiential gaze …
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
Two men seem to be condemned to remain for hours in a small room with no windows. One is a detective, the other one, a …
Two ordinary family men take on a challenge seemingly out of their reach: to go across the island of Tasmania for two w…
The move from elementary school to high school is tense for any child. But most children only have to leave behind the …
Marah, Noor, Mona and Betty have something in common, the love for speed and for their country. In this action-driven d…
A group of young dancers whose members are immigrants from the former Soviet Union try to win the International Breakda…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
This film is a gloomy, dream-like document about what remains of a Jewish state created by Stalin for communist Jews in…
The Madman and the Cathedral is a documentary about one man’s dream to build a cathedral with no construction experienc…
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable tes…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
This documentary takes us into the fascinating work of Amancio Williams, an icon of modern Argentine architecture.
In the ruined cemetery in Gorlice, in Southern Poland, there is the grave of the tzaddik, a holy master, forgotten year…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
In a journey through the images of Lebanese mass media in recent years, the contradictory portrait of a country that li…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
Through exclusive interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, this documentary tells the story of the first image captured of …
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
Best Documentary Films
