Surrounded by southern pine trees, in the solitude of the Chilean mountains, Juan lives every day resisting the imminen…
Two octogenarian brothers return to their native Poland. One is a painter, the other a scientist. Despite their differe…
With the beautifully photographed urban world of Dublin as a backdrop, this film reflects on the evolution of Skateboar…
We embark alongside Bill Viola, the greatest video artist of this century, on his twelve-year adventure of crafting his…
South of Buenos Aires, in a coastal city, there is a public school in the middle of a forest, where its students have a…
A series of bold collage and remix creators from various areas spark a discussion about the existence of these art made…
In October 2017, Juan Martín Guevara traveled to Bolivia to be present at the events commemorating the murder of his br…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This experimental short film is an observational study of the Alps and how the human trail permeates their geography.
In Cochabamba, Bolivia, the surroundings of an urban landfill were declared uninhabitable due to their levels of contam…
This is the last film of Andreas Voigt's "Leipzig Series". The filmmaker shows how the lives of a group of Germans have…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
The arrival of new members to the workplace of a blind man who leads a group of food tasters poses an unprecedented cha…
A 26-year-old Kurdish-German woman returns to Turkey and becomes the mayor of her city, near the border with Syria and …
This curious cinematic investigation-conversation oscillates between Paris and Portugal to inquire into the "Danses Mac…
This short film premiered at the prestigious IDFA takes us into Ostend's Ibis, a boarding school where children with be…
"If today would be a great adventure, in 1948 it was an epic" says a certified voice in this documentary about the bigg…
A glimpse into the soul of Teresa Smith, an African-American mother who through her profound singing finds a way to dem…
Jaki is 27 years old and has to deal with... well, everything that entails. A hybrid short film about a state of mind i…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
This mid-length documentary shows us how a Mixed Martial Arts ring is seen from the eyes of Anna Azovskaya, a mother an…
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
After spending 30 years of his life working in an iconic industrial factory, Marc Coton begins a journey of introspecti…
This documentary follows the difficult path of African-American politician Bakari Sellers in his quest to become the fi…
Danka makes a living cleaning the fifteen rooms of a hospice in Berlin. This film makes a portrait of her, a woman who …
The arrival of a magic car creates a change in a small town in Iran where children often drop out of school due to the …
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
Retired in the peninsula of Kamchatka, Russia, a war correspondent abandons his lifelong profession to shoot films anch…
In this semi-animated documentary, the artist Christoph Faulhaber questions our current digitized world through his own…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
The inhabitants of a neighborhood in Belgium unite in a great civil mission: to find and renovate a house so that the m…
Five years after the Egyptian revolution that overthrew the Mubarak regime, four young Egyptians look back on that even…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Through interviews with experts on both sides of the Atlantic, this film visits various natural history museums and zoo…
Four war veterans who confronted each other during the war between South Africa and Angola face a reconciling reunion a…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
During a radio show, the inhabitants of a city share intimate revelations on the eve of the end of the world according …
With almost no budget to shoot, filmmaker Lee Salter conducts an in-depth investigation into the implications of the ph…
This episode of UN in Action portrays how climate change has forced communities in Madagascar to seek better opportunit…
Mladen and Maja seek their space in a society that rejects them. They also want their independence from the health syst…
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
Through a series of interviews, this documentary portrays the stories of men who have had to confront an unforeseen pre…
The sketches found after the death of Sarah, a drawer of faces without body or sex, detonate the analysis of these stro…
This documentary surrounds the creative process of the painter Bernard Legay, a man who isolates himself from civilizat…
Best Documentary Films