A compelling exploration of African resilience, tradition, and pride set against the vivid tableau of the Omo Valley, t…
This film, the Rise of monumental graffiti breathes new life into Paris' urban landscapes, as artists transform bland, …
In this Experimental Documentary, siblings Alexandre and Jeanne confront their haunting past and the trials of emigrati…
This documentary experiences the humble yet profound world of cheesemaking in Cantal, where rural life and filmmaking i…
Inside Mediapart's vibrant newsroom, filmmaker Naruna Kaplan de Macedo unearths the hidden intricacies of investigative…
Five hopeful migrants, trapped in Ceuta, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, grapple with mounting anxiety as they stand just…
Through years of exploration and introspection, the filmmaker seeks to understand the elusive concept of freedom, not j…
Within the heart of Paris, the Bibliothèque Publique d'Information unites an unassuming community, as diverse individua…
In the wake of a crippling stroke, a tenacious jazz legend fights to regain his drumming prowess, mentor one final prot…
Captivating, experimental, concise. This story of emigration and family is told through the lens of this short film sho…
This art documentary follows the extraordinary life of Gabriel Pitteloud, a Swiss artist and stone sculptor who, after …
In this short documentary essay, filmmaker Antoine Fontaine delves into a forgotten archive of 16mm film belonging to a…
From Mumbai to Quebec, this eye-opening documentary takes us around the world to show us how people on the margins are …
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
An integrated team of specialists is at the center of palliative care, accompanying people of varying ages on their jou…
Defying an ancient rule, a young woman enlists in a Napoleonic guard that re-enacts historical scenes where only men ca…
In this hybrid short film, visual artist Michael Poetschko films a group of young people who turn an abandoned office i…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
After being found dead in his room, the painter and photographer Pierre Molinier left behind a peculiar body of work. T…
This fascinating musical documentary explores the career of Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, with a particular focus on he…
Through equidistant materials, from dance competitions in Brittany, France, to nuclear tests in Polynesia, experimental…
A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
This first installment of the Accentus Music trilogy explains how music and the great composers were forever changed by…
Is the electric car our best option for a sustainable world? Filmmaker Jérôme Piguet tries to uncover the (inconvenient…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
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…
Tour Du Faso, Africa's top cycling race, where foreigners and locals try to be the winner on a route full of unforeseen…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
In World War II, a psychiatric asylum in France not only had to deal with the Nazi invasion. Its staff also pioneered …
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
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…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
When a man discovers he is suffering from an incurable disease, he embarks in a kind of farewell journey filming everyd…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
Shot in 16mm in the best style of the informational ethnographic documentaries of the 1980s, this is a portrait of the …
Shot on 16mm film, this short documentary is a fleeting glimpse of the iconic Aligre market in Paris. You've never seen…
Trying to beat an algorithm he considers unfair, a young bike courier with more than 20,000 kilometers pedaled makes hi…
Best Documentary Films
