In the heart of Belarus, a black sheep director's journey to confront familial grievances becomes a profound exploratio…
Bridging two generations of filmmakers, this intimate journey revisits a remote Greek island, encapsulating its transfo…
An Emotional Quest Bridging Cultures and Discovering Identity.
An Intimate Exploration of Life, Death, and Expanded Consciousness.
In this Black and White Documentary, two artists traverse America, capturing the essence of locomotives, passenger stor…
This is a Short animated compelling journey through cultural immersion and language learning, vividly portrayed by a te…
This Documetary is an intimate portrayal of women navigating the trials and triumphs of life during the Covid-19 quaran…
A young film director travels back to his home country, Venezuela, to create a film based on his estranged father's lif…
Discover the heartwarming story of a rural Minnesota family's creation of a unique baseball game that has brought their…
Is a powerful documentary that follows young adults fighting for shared parenting and family court reform to reunite wi…
Is a documentary that takes you on a purrfectly delightful journey into the glamorous and cutthroat world of cat shows.
Unleash the transformative power of hope as three courageous women share their raw and deeply personal stories of growi…
Filmed over 9 years, I, AFRIKANER is a challenging and intimate portrait of a filmmaker’s white South African family tr…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
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 house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
Have you ever thought about how you got here? We really are what our parents did for us. In this film, a son and father…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
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…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
A captivating portrait of a remote rural village in Cuba takes place before our eyes. At the same time, a touching dial…
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Best Documentary Films
