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Popular Documentary Movies
To Know Her
A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mother.
See Us
Two sisters celebrate the range of abilities of different communities by bringing all of their stories to light through their multi-platform organization TRU FACES.
Arbres et forêts Remarquables, un univers à explorer
Merapi
Respected Chilean film director and moving image maker Malena Szlam (winner 58th MIFF Shorts Awards) considers our sense of place in a hypnotic, abstracted moving image work of horizons, mountains and natural forms.
Where the Land Sounds
Motivated by family memories, a filmmaker returns to the land of his mother to reflect on his identity and deep cultural heritage.
i ran from it and was still in it
I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of familial loss and separation. Kae wades through deep emotions surrounding the death of his father and the sudden relocation of his children, repurposing intimate family scenes from his personal archive by pairing them with online media from a variety of sources to explore how the autobiographical model can potentially extend beyond the personal.
Vander
A daughter tries to find the lost connection with her father through the only photo she has.
Un Gros Câlin
A play on Chantal Akerman's 1976 film "News From Home," this film is a series of filmed images of Bloomington Indiana and Washington D.C. backed by a years worth of messages from the director's grandmother read aloud by the director herself.
Elsa
Six-year-old Stanley has a year left to be Disney's Queen Elsa to his heart's content, before formal education starts.
Jean-Michel Frank - Tragic Genius of Art Deco
Jean-Michel Frank designed style-defining interiors in the 1920s with the timeless ideal of simplicity. He worked in Paris with artists like Giacometti and Dali, and designed interiors for millionaires like Nelson Rockefeller and Templeton Crocker. The documentary tells of an amazing but tragic life of the innovative interior designer.
The South is My Sister's Skin
A short documentary that follows Zenzele Ojore's coming of age with the American South as its backdrop. Horizon Award Winner 2019. Sundance Ignite 2021.
Anticline
Plucked from the ground, we flew over the landscape. In the blink of an eye everything has changed. A hundred-meter chasm extends below us. We suddenly fall into a vortex. The machines, which appear to us as prehistoric creatures, have taken control. We are transported, pulled, cut and deposited by rusty shovels choreographed by hydraulic rods, under the vibration of the engines that impose the rhythm and accelerate the time.
Alvaro LÓPEZ
A documentary film by Tomás Utillano, made in Buenos Aires, during the brief stay of Álvaro López (Los Bunkers) in the capital of Argentina in 2014. From the spontaneous meeting of three strangers, Álvaro's songs emerge, which accompany and give meaning to the meeting and the film.
Long Live Carinthia!
Živela Koroška is the substantive continuation of the film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the plebiscite in 2020 (One Hundred Years Since the Carinthian Plebiscite), and shows life in Carinthia after the plebiscite.
Friends & Benefits
Butch, dyke, with tattoos and a skinny green mohawk, inseparable from her wheelchair, she would roam around Camden with her lesbian posse. Diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) since her late teens, she lived her life in a way many able-bodied people would covet. So, what was it that allowed her to have this quality of life despite her disability?
Girls Gotta Eat Dirt
Three of Colorado's shreddiest ladies show us what they're made of in this short film, presented by jorts. Avra Saslow, Delilah Cupp, and Clare Hamilton are best friends, roommates, and riding partners who make the most of every berm.
Out Of Mind
Having moved on from the tragedy of his mother's death surprisingly quickly; with the help of neuroscientist, Prof. Adam Zeman, artist, Amy Right and a host of others around the globe; Alex Wheeler finds himself journeying into the depths of his mind to uncover the fascinating roots of his emotional detachment from people and events.
Markus Eder: The Ultimate Run
Markus Eder, arguably the most versatile skier on the planet, combines and progresses all sub-genres of modern freeskiing like never seen before.
Safe Space
Safe Space is pieced together from numerous YouTube clips of ballroom events from the early 1990s. Ballroom culture is created by trans and queer people of colour in response to a society that marginalised their presence.
Yade Ayyam
" Yade Ayyam " is a documentary about one of Mohammad Reza Shajarian's last journeys and musical works, introducing musical instruments that he made.
It's All Your Fault!
This short documentary raises the question of ideal friendship. While filming her girlfriends, members of a musical collective known throughout the city, the director feels that she can strengthen their friendship.
The Final Touch
A mortician explains the embalming process while considering a family’s last moments to say goodbye to their loved one.
Harrods at Christmas
Some of the most expensive and unusual items ever sold in Harrods are shared.
The Outsider
Michael Shulan was once a struggling novelist who owned a storefront space down in NYC's trendy Soho neighborhood. The attacks on the World Trade Center changed his life forever. He & three friends turned his Spring Street space into a now-famous crowdsourced photo exhibit called "Here Is New York." For five years, he was known as the world's leading expert on 9/11 photography. Then, the lifelong outsider was invited to be part of something big. Shulan was named the Creative Director of the National 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero. This is the story of his dream job and how it turned against him. His vision of an open, inclusive, participatory place for America to engage in the painful, personal story of 9/11 goes wrong. His role as creative leader turns into a daily battle to keep his vision alive.
Palermo Sole Nero
Dennis and Ibra live in Palermo without knowing how long they can stay there. When Ibra disappears, Dennis sets off to look for his friend in the town under the gaze of the patron saints.
The Little Moon
"Where the last house faded away in the wheat, there lived a little girl, who walked at night out in the fields, with a bucket of water to mirror the moon." It's a true story based on Tonino Guerra's poem, about a girl who lives in a remote Lithuanian village. This single farm holds her entire world: family, beloved animals, and the watchful moon.
Gaze
In a process of open negotiation with the film crew, the protagonists explore in their own way the question of how they live their gender identity, focusing on how they manage it in relation to their perception of themselves and others. As the discourse unfolds, the universal nature of this inner confrontation becomes palpable.
Grilled Queso
A night in the life of a couple working in a food truck in the busiest areas in Austin.
Car Ride (Baker Act Version)
The recounting of a dissociative car ride, with all audio overdubbed to avoid Florida’s Baker Act, which allows for anyone expressing suicidal thoughts to be hospitalized against their will.
We’ll Be Together
“This film is my attempt to learn about my father from his diaries. From the 1970s to the 1990s he, Yura Diversant, a well-known figure in the Moscow hippy community, published a samizdat magazine called Svoboda and created the political art group Svobodnaya Initsiativa (Free Initiative), trying to fight the Soviet system. But this is not the most important thing in my film. For me he is, above all, my father, and I never had the opportunity to get to know him before.”
He's the Only One
The history of the creation and formation of the innovative online bank of Central and Eastern Europe - Tinkoff. This is a story about how to create a digital bank without branches, and then turn it into a lifestyle ecosystem.