8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
This propaganda film commissioned by the United States government was shown to the troops that would occupy Germany jus…
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of four different metropolitan cities: Bombay, Mexico City, Moscow and New …
When filmmaker Al Díaz discovers old films from his parents' trip to Italy in his youth, he begins an essay on memory a…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese filmmaker documents the radiation-free zone.…
What to do with the widest waterfall in Europe?
In Doel, Belgium, only a handful of inhabitants remain after several decades of decline. Weird and humorous, this docum…
The film takes us into the third class wagons of the Moscow-Vladivostok train, which crosses Russia on the most extensi…
Committed to the passion that as a child pushed him to flee home, Nigua is determined to carry out the project of his l…
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
Are we losing our sense of community in an increasingly unsustainable world? In this film, a small community in Austral…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
In their struggle to defend their human rights, the African street vendors who work in the streets of Barcelona underta…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
Grandma has died but left a diary. The last time she wrote, it was the day before her death. How much can we learn abou…
A filmmaker returns to his parents' home, where a ghostly presence has much to say about a mother and a father facing t…
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…
After forging a strong and close relationship throughout their life, two sisters face the unveiling of a past that had …
Arina, a Russian girl, crosses the border from Turkey to visit her father, a Kurdish man who lives in the tense calm of…
After being diagnosed with cancer, and amid the tension of the political crisis, a Syrian man begins a family explorati…
Eighteen-year-old Josefin travels from Sweden to Peru in search of answers. According to a family myth, her aunt was a …
Premiered at the prestigious IDFA, this documentary follows the Swedish rapper Silvana over several years through her w…
A young Russian woman fights along with the LGBTI community against a law that discriminates homosexuals. But her love …
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
A globetrotter who went from being a science student all over Europe to a respected Catholic priest in Germany. This do…
This independent film is a biopic of Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray and the making of his multi-award-winning de…
Incredible as it may seem, exorcisms take place every day in present-day Poland. But what is really behind the return o…
Welcome to the Hotel Nueva Isla. Once a luxurious hotel, now this decaying building houses souls from the Havana fringe…
This film invites us to a hypnotizing experience in a slow motion world. A high speed camera allows us to feel the move…
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
Only seven minutes long, this is the most extraordinary portrait of a young transgender man you will ever see on the in…
It's David's birthday and his friends have prepared a night out in a hotel room. Between drinks and pizzas emerges the …
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Childhood follows a group of children in a rural kindergarden for a year. The film portrays a genuine learning process …
Against the backdrop of the gray Soviet architecture of St. Petersburg, drag queens of various generations come out to …
The inside story of drug lord Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son.
In 1976, a 19-year-old daughter of a senior Communist official in Slovakia was found dead and raped. Since then, seven …
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
Inspired by a film by Agnes Varda, this experimental short film features actors and actresses to stage and reflect on g…
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
Best Documentary Films
