In the wake of a crippling stroke, a tenacious jazz legend fights to regain his drumming prowess, mentor one final prot…
The people of Visaginas, a Lithuanian city created in the golden age of the USSR, face an uncertain future because of t…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
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,…
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
Serene and educational, in this documentary the colorful inhabitants of Misiones, a border region in northern Argentina…
In this short film, a man enters a forest where dilapidated houses hold stories of his past of vitality and loneliness …
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…
Set somewhere in México, in this short film ancient spaces apparently dynamited by time appear in front of us. Unexpect…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
With the premise to achieve a kind of lyrical collage, the renowned Spanish filmmaker Jacinto Esteva makes a prismatic …
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
Through the daily lives of three traditional farmers in the Cornwall region, this documentary portrays contemporary rur…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
In this documentary, the fog is the element that unites worlds and characters very different from each other. A film es…
In a remote rural village in southern Italy, a family prepares for the slaughter of a pig as part of a traditional ritu…
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
This educational short film is an inspiring portrait of resilience and collaborative community work through the experie…
Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
Only documentary filmmaking can give us a frank and warm portrait like this one, the one that the director Marcelo Diaz…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
Over the course of two years, this documentary follows a group of workers in the south of France in the biggest challen…
A team of teenagers from the Czech Republic visits Morocco to play friendly ice hockey matches in that country. And whi…
Alternating between still photographs and cinematic still shots, male figures appear in various Nordic landscapes. In t…
"Ebram" was an Iranian guitarist and composer who, after dying in suspicious circumstances, became a myth and an inspir…
Woochul is just one face among the 600,000 soldiers in the South Korean army. This documentary follows this young man d…
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
How dominated are we by computers and big data? This observational documentary dissects the day-to-day life of a financ…
After 12 years in power, a controversial mayor of a Greek town will do the impossible to get enough votes for his candi…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
When he arrives at a rehabilitation center for birds, Antonin, a man suffering from persistent fatigue, begins to see l…
A theater group composed of peasant women from rural Turkey embarks on a journey to a remote town in the mountains of t…
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
Using cinematic techniques, the performance of the crucifixion of Christ interpreted by ordinary people in a village in…
In the decadent town of Gonzalez, Texas, no cultural event attracts more attention than the traditional cattle auction.…
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
In the inhospitable desert lands of northeastern Mexico, a community of ranchers prepares to migrate to a new home in t…
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