Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
An evangelical man returns to his Dominican provincial town, where he must face the difficult consequences of his fathe…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
In this short film, the voices of workers in the Argentine textile industry cooperatives tell their stories of belongin…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Three women tell us how their enlistment in the Los AngelesPolice Department poses the challenge of completely changing…
Despite its prosaic appearance, this will be the only documentary that will tell you, in great detail, about the life o…
As nostalgic as it may seem, there are thousands of Lego collectors in the world who make stop-motion home movies with …
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
A group of adventurous cyclists set out on an almost impossible quest: to ride more than 1,200 kilometers across Japan …
A lonely young Californian man obsessed with Steven Spielberg embarks on the adventure of filming his first movie, whic…
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
One of the ways we can stop climate change is to recycle wood. This documentary introduces us to the revolutionary urba…
This episode of UN In Action shows how a new invention in Africa can turn Methane released from cow dung into gas for c…
This episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
In the interiors of a remote Tibetan monastery, five-year-old Hopakuli faces the rigorous day-to-day life of this relig…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
A girl draws a sketch of her schoolyard and explains how this space is divided between boys and girls at recess every d…
Sault Ste. Marie I-500 is an annual snowmobile race held in Michigan, United States. After two years of cinematic invol…
The true story of Bowling Legend Bob Perry, who battled, drugs, alcohol, the Mafia, and federal prison to emerge as one…
Despite being HIV positive, human rights activist Ortwin Passon is preparing a thesis to defend the right of people lik…
A young farmer and a gang of teenagers wander the prairie. A farm. A flooded cemetery. The sunset. Some ruins. Experime…
Looking for the meaning of life, a filmmaker travels to Tokyo and discovers 63-year-old Yamada-San, an irreverent chara…
Filmed in 1982, this iconic documentary follows for a year and a half the people of a remote community in North West Ne…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
Surreal, mesmerizing, explosive. In this short documentary, the pyrotechnic rituals of a Mexican village light up the n…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
An observational film about how life moves on a bicycle path in Latvia named after Alfred Rubiks, a former communist pr…
Much has been said about the golden years between the wars in Paris, a place par excellence for artists and bohemians o…
Following the thread of an omnipresent narrator, this hybrid film takes us to the dreamy Irish countryside, a setting o…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
Shortly after Trump was elected president, an Indian immigrant is killed in a hate crime in Kansas. His widow carries t…
On a balmy summer Virginia night in 1995, three extremely promising young people would get into a car: only two would e…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
Filmmaker Joel Allen Schroeder embarks on a personal journey to discuss America's most famous comic strip, Calvin and H…
As the world's largest medieval battles championship approaches, a group of Argentinean warriors of this fantastic spor…
Best Documentary Films
