Underneath the glamor of a successful fashion designer's life in Shanghai, Chen Chen navigates hidden complexities and …
This Documentary is a meditative exploration of our profound connections and interactions with the natural world, promp…
This art documentary follows the extraordinary life of Gabriel Pitteloud, a Swiss artist and stone sculptor who, after …
What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin no…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
Immersed in the heart of the wild, filmmaker Roman Droux and bear researcher David Bittner show us what life is like fo…
In this beautiful film essay, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films the landscape outside his studio window for s…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
This is a making-of film like you've never seen another. The documentary follows the making of a film about the rise an…
Vertiginous, unpredictable, withering. These are the ways in which multi-award-winning filmmaker Thomas Imbach films th…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
Poetic, contemplative and testimonial, this documentary gathers the impressions of hundreds of Central African men, wom…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
This is a fascinating insight into the life of Swiss skier and Olympic medalist Lara Gut-Behrami. From the peak of her …
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
Four young Chinese artists united through an artistic project compose a unique panorama that give us a glimpse of the e…
This documentary follows Wu and Tang, two young Chinese trying to find their true passion in life amidst the pressures …
Drawing on memories of his childhood vacation in Belgrade, Swiss director Nicolas Wagnières films an iconic hotel in th…
In a public park, an army of crows emerges from the mist. A camera films them. A gun is fired. Is this short film a kin…
Through the lives of two Pakistani men, one dedicated to the spiritual life and the other a defender of an ancient musi…
Premiered at the Berlinale, this film follows two Cuban boys in their minimalist - and full of freedom - everyday life,…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
Through still pictures and textual resources, a short story unfolds: the encounter between a western explorer and a Nig…
A young woman goes out into the street in the middle of the night. We hear her voiceover and we feel very close to her.…
Five transgender people reflect on their experience overcoming the binary conception of genders and tell us about their…
This documentary reflects on outdoor film screening in today’s China. Several people of various origins and ages give t…
Filmmaker Stéphane Goel goes out in search of answers about the existence of an idyllic place after death. Several Swis…
Following the quest of Alfred von Rodt, a Swiss who sought to found a kingdom on the Chilean island that inspired Robin…
Stefan Theiler has an interesting theory. He believes that any individual or sociological problem of the human being ca…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
A legendary icon of folk music, a singer who was the source of inspiration for Bob Dylan, this essay-documentary is a p…
After living in Paris for years, Arash, a demotivated young Iranian, visits the coasts of France with his friends, who …
Arami returns from Europe to Paraguay to take care of her elderly mother, who suffers from epilepsy and Parkinson. Clou…
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 curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
For the protagonists of this film, life on land is on hold. On board a cruise ship, normality has other rules. This sho…
A group of Yodelers in the Swiss Alps must face unprecedented fame, and an impending presentation in Shanghai becomes a…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Two lifelong friends decide to spend a summer on a farm in the Swiss Alps. What could go wrong? Well ... almost everyth…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
This documentary shows all the facets of Alexandro Jodorowsky, cult filmmaker, mime artist, performer, comic writer, cr…
This documentary rescues the work and life of Adolphe Appia, a visionary scenographer who laid the foundations for mode…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Best Documentary Films
