In September 2021, 1500 white-sided dolphins were slaughtered in Skálabotnur. This documentary navigates both waters to…
Almost twenty years after appearing as a young boy in "Ten", the famous Abbas Kiarostami's film, Amina is now a transge…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Set in the suburbs of Cairo, this short film follows a man dedicated to pigeon fighting. His dilemma lies between embra…
This hilarious short film shows us a side of Gibraltar that we would never get to see if it weren't for documentary fil…
In a time when women seem to be juggling the demands of career, family and beauty standards, a new overall fashion tren…
An essay on the tale of the famous photographer Francis Reusser. A personal story and a brief history of image, spannin…
After a past as a drug dealer and drug user, "Plusmacher", a young German rapper, navigates life with what keeps him go…
On April 29th, 1992, Latasha Harlins was killed in South Central Los Angeles. Her death ignited the LA riots, yet her …
Metanoia means to expand and change the way one sees. In this documentary, conductor Simone Menezes travels across Ital…
In their own voice, the former miners of the uranium mines in a Gabonese village tell us how they were forgotten by the…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
In this video art, multidisciplinary artist Samuel Bester makes a free, experimental and sensually charged interpretati…
A group of men sculpt the immense figure of a saint. The act is a display of white particles and movement throughout th…
This short film follows filmmaker Heilika Pikkov's grandparents. They both renew their vows as a couple in their old ag…
Four individuals find relief and isolation from the hostility of the streets of Paris in a newly opened low-risk drug c…
Nina, the director of the film, returns to her small rural village in Potosi, Bolivia. Around her, myths, rituals and s…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
After being disappeared by a fascist group in 1960, this film by the Master Jacinto Esteva about the emigration of Span…
Bob Comber dreams of becoming the first person to cross the Sierra Nevada Wilderness Park in California in his wheelcha…
Sergei Loznitsa, a master of contemporary documentary filmmaking, makes a delicate observation of the bodies of men and…
Two famous Bolivian sculptors embark on the most challenging adventure they have ever experienced: transporting a 164-f…
Tiina and Ülo live among various colorful objects accumulated throughout their life. This film tells the story of a dee…
14-year-old girl Khatemeh has run away to a women's refuge and is seeking a divorce from her husband, a man twice her a…
Director Andrew Lancaster delves into his family's past and brings to light the case of his uncle Bill Lancaster, an av…
This film follows filmmaker Laurent Hasse as he embarks on a journey from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern …
This HBO documentary film explores the issue of domestic violence and its impact on survivors. The film follows the sto…
What was the world like before human kind set foot in it? This short film contemplates the apparently unspoiled landsca…
Through a walk through a cemetery, a narrator reflects on how society and politics impact the individual dimension of t…
What is it like to return to the place where you were born 30 years after leaving? Filmmaker Régis Sauder returns to th…
USA, the land of the possible. This free visual essay deconstructs the imaginary and mythology of the United States as …
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
Have you ever heard of cumbia music? This exciting road movie follows a group of filmmakers and musicians as they trave…
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this documentary sheds light on one of the most tumultuous times in Chile’s history and t…
Sensory, gripping and, to a point, claustrophobic, this documentary takes us into the world of a group of scientists on…
Photographs, travel videos, a female voice-over. Filmmaker Nora Särak creates a colorful and fresh collage to talk abou…
This is an emotional family portrait that surrounds the Mexican indigenous troubadour and social leader Jaime Martínez.…
Mystical and visceral at the same time, this short documentary presents a poetic approach to the culture of berry plant…
Three women, a wife, mother, and daughter, reveal the powerful transformations of grief into art through intimate cinem…
Former Yugoslav territories, 1980s - 1990s. Time of abrupt political changes and war. Behind all this there was a sound…
In 1976, a 19-year-old daughter of a senior Communist official in Slovakia was found dead and raped. Since then, seven …
Doctors, scientists, patients and families unite in a single cause: to eliminate cervical cancer. This documentary show…
In less than fifteen minutes, Victor conducts a cinematic experiment to investigate the nature of his body. To others, …
At the border between Italy and France, migrants hope to cross northwards with the help of the locals. In the meantime,…
This poetic documentary follows the rehearsals of the renowned Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris as it prepares to pr…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
Best Documentary Films
