This Oscar-winning documentary follows the incredible feat of Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, the first man to descend M…
Conceived as an essay film, we follow a man in a suit walking through Tokyo on an existential journey. We hear a voice,…
This funny animation takes us through the diverse voices that make up the Bronx through the music and the street object…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
Looking for the meaning of life, a filmmaker travels to Tokyo and discovers 63-year-old Yamada-San, an irreverent chara…
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
The sixth film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight saga introduced US soldiers and audiences to Japan's invasion of China and…
Using footage filmed by intrepid cameramen, in the middle of the firing line in battle, this propaganda film documents …
Filmed at the height of the Covid19 pandemic, a chorus of voices, including those of health care workers, paint a horri…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
In this documentary, Cristóbal Jodorowski takes us into the world of psycoshamanism, a new current of healing that mixe…
Featuring star motorcyclists - like Steve Mcqueen himself - this Oscar-nominated vintage documentary immerses us in the…
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the …
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
A Mexican director. A white American actor. What can happen in this fifteen-minute conversation about race and privileg…
Didn't know flying motorcycles existed? This adventure documentary follows two intrepid microlight aircrafts riders as …
It took five athletes a lifetime to complete the Oceans Seven, the swim challenge that consists of crossing the seven g…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
A new season of the Polish women's soccer league is about to begin. The goals are high, but these players will give the…
Father and son travel a long distance from the Czech Republic to a Russian city. So close together but so far away at t…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Mark Inglis reached the summit of Everest with both legs amputated in 2006. But his achievement was tarnished by allege…
When a film crew arrives in Ghana to shoot a film about supposed child witchcraft, the ethical dilemmas of the filmmake…
More than forty years after the tragedy, this documentary film rescues the events of the 1973 gay bar massacre in New O…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
A collector embarks on a road trip to complete the world's largest collection of nintendo video games.
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
What is so poetic about the rite of swimming from a beach to a buoy? Filmmaker Fernando Spiner takes us to his hometown…
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
When a beaver plague gets out of control in the harsh territory of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, a couple of biologists …
After being a sexually abused child, Dave Ohlmuller embarks on an adventure to bike from Chicago to New Jersey to raise…
A stolen camera is the tool that a director of a theater group in Dakar needs to shoot an LGBTI film with his actors. B…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
As a parody of the democratic system, a group of political science students runs as candidates in the Croatian parliame…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
In this experimental short film, a man traverses British landscapes that discourse on modern civilization, the control …
Amid the recurring political tensions that plague the Crimean peninsula, a group of workers struggle to keep a once-com…
Narrated by Game of Thrones star Iain Glen, this documentary takes us through the majestic forests of Scotland to disco…
Filmmaker Arsenio Cadena points the camera at his father, a 73-year-old tailor who has an obsessive passion: climbing t…
As artificial intelligence develops at a rampant speed, the human craft could be supplanted by this virtual wisdom. Or …
In November 2017, a devastating earthquake hit western Iran. It took only 13 seconds to lose everything. This is a flee…
This fascinating documentary retraces the contemporary history of language creation for cultural products such as the G…
Best Documentary Films
