This beautiful hybrid film navigates between documentary and fiction to illustrate, from their imaginary, the changes f…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
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…
In a remote rural village in southern Italy, a family prepares for the slaughter of a pig as part of a traditional ritu…
Because of his small stature, no one gave a dime for Calvin Murphy's NBA career. This is the narrated story of how this…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Behind stars like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, a pianist, a drummer and a guitarist formed a trio that left their mar…
At 85 years old, Lucy tells us with passion and eloquence how as an transgender person she managed to navigate the most…
Produced by BBC Music, this True-Crime documentary is an in-depth investigation behind the murders of rappers Biggie an…
Respected in both North and South Korea, renowned composer Isang Yun dreams that music can one day reconcile the two co…
With farmer suicides on the rise in India due to the appalling conditions for growing crops, could an NGO make up for t…
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
This documentary takes us into the reality of Libya after the revolution that overthrew Gaddafi, through the life and w…
Made by Academy Award-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro, this intrepid film tells the story of the Dallas Cowboys Ch…
With humor, avant-garde spirit, and eloquence, this documentary reviews the fascinating life of the prolific French com…
This multi-award winning documentary is an incisive yet simple portrait of a Neo-Nazi in his seemingly harmless everyda…
Filmed entirely remotely, this documentary that mixes dramatizations and expert testimonies sheds light on how to preve…
Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nic…
With their golden years behind them, two fifty-something boxers from the north of Brazil decide to invoke their histori…
In the late 70s, the Khmer Rouge regime killed around two million people in Cambodia suspected of being “internal enemi…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
Scientists, doctors, natural and surrogate mothers, hospitals, fertilization labs. This fascinating documentary explain…
Faced with the government's plan to build the Great-Western Airport in the Nantes area, France, opponents of the projec…
In the absence of images of the case, Palau's former president explains in a short interview what really happened to si…
In this musical documentary, Allan Miller, the Oscar-winning director, takes us on a journey through the musical evolut…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
Through technology and various present-day experiences, this fascinating educational documentary revisits the relevance…
Maya has grown accustomed to being a hairless teenager. After being diagnosed with Alopecia areata, Maya tries to find …
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
In the fast-paced style of those TV documentaries we all love, this film is a gripping expedition to the Chernobyl Excl…
At a street market in Croatia, people try to find the best locally produced groceries. Filmmaker Ana Hušman studies the…
Psychedelic, strident, etheric. This is how Lima emerges in this portrait of the Peruvian capital through a kaleidoscop…
This educational short film is an inspiring portrait of resilience and collaborative community work through the experie…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
Filmmakers Wambui Ndegwa and Cole Lewis make the Kenyan reality visible through the story of a family that began adopti…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Through the resource of typing descriptions of emotions at the surface of the skin, this experimental documentary takes…
The final installment of the Accentus Music trilogy focuses on the political edges that traversed the world of academic…
The bars on a famous street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, host a competition for blues musicians, the renowned The In…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
This documentary makes visible the life of Branko Črnac Tusta, a puck-rock icon who became an activist for labor rights…
How often do you listen attentively to the sound of birds? This fleeting short film is a provocation for contemplation …
The second part of the Accentus Music trilogy aims to make visible the brilliant young Russian composers of the early 2…
Inspired by the writings of Finnish diplomat G. J. Ramstedt, this documentary is a journey to Japan and Mongolia to ref…
Bittersweet testimonies of music students are heard while, in front of our eyes, handmade animations try to evoke their…
Being transgender in the Brazilian army in the middle of the last century was an experience that had hard consequences …
Best Documentary Films
