In Mexico City, 9 out of 10 women have been victims of sexual violence during their journeys in the public transportati…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
This documentary is a delicate accompaniment to four septuagenarian women in their constant and emancipatory habit of s…
This episode of the UN In Action shows how through women's empowerment the Fund for Agricultural Development helps coas…
Did you know that more than a third of homeless youth in the United States belong to the LGBT community? This short fil…
This documentary follows five adults in their daily lives and in the extraordinary world they enter every weekend, when…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
In Guimbereru, a small village in Benin that seems lost in time, a young man from the community begins a personal searc…
With a “direct cinema” approach, this film follows Peipei, a young female artist who does not conform to the institutio…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through a meticulous observational approach, this short film takes us to a village in the Bulgarian Balkans to show us …
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
A filmmaker films his own family and asks whether he is a good son. The scenes we see next comppose a cinematic explora…
Did you know that millions of people eat insects on a daily basis? This documentary demonstrates how this habit can hel…
In the midst of a mythical and beautiful Mongolian landscape, this film follows Kuma, a young Kazak man who wants to fu…
This documentary follows the last days of the show Gardenia, made by a group of transsexuals and drag queens in the aut…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
A man who killed his life companion in a jealousy fit tries to live in isolation after serving a seven-year sentence. B…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
This is the fascinating portrait of Corradino d’Ascanio, the inventor of the helicopter and the most famous scouter in …
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
A Finnish filmmaker finds her own national identity alongside the Wayuu people and its cosmovision, in the desert betwe…
Through a bold accompaniment to the crew aboard a trawler in the Barents Sea, we witness their hard days, their hopes, …
In the Philippines, an innocent man faces the death penalty in a controversial murder case that separated two families …
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This documentary unveils with irony and diligence the connection between business, politics and sport in Donetsk, Ukrai…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
This short film follows Floh, a passionate Belgian accordionist that expresses her rebellious spirit through her songs.
Discover eleven love stories in old age in Montevideo, Uruguay. Among experiences of violence, disappointment, hope and…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
This short film is a portrait of Didou, an 88-year-old Algerian man who preserves the memory of his deceased wife on th…
This film tells the story of Raul Castells, an indomitable Argentine social activist who fights incessantly against the…
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Directed by documentary master Michael Glawogger and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, this film deals with the ex…
An observational approach allows us to follow a young Argentine in his first months of military training in the army.
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
In Roshmia, the last natural valley in Haifa, an elderly Palestinian couple prepares a final standoff with the local au…
Young Mohamed Bouazizi never knew what would happen after he set himself on fire in front of a police station in Tunisi…
Since 1898 more than 2.000 people have been exonerated of a serious crime in the U.S. This documentary tells the story …
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
With the premise that the legal system in the United States makes sustainability illegal, this film demonstrates how pe…
This is the epic tale of John, a maverick Midwestern farmer, as he stands amidst a falling economy, vicious rumors and …
Filmed in a grainy black and white, this short film makes a portrait of Jurgen Blin, a retired German boxer who fought …
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
Best Documentary Films
