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Popular Documentary Movies
I've Lived Under Five Dictatorships
The hero of the film, violinist Helmut Stern born in Berlin in 1928. “I lived under five dictatorships. The first was German, Hitler’s, the second was Japanese in China, the third was Soviet in China, the fourth was Chinese communist, because there was already a civil war and we had communists, and the fifth... guess... These are the conductors", he says. The story of Helmut Stern, his forced trip around the world, his odyssey of a Jewish refugee recalls the story of Voltaire's Candide, who was expelled from his home. Life made him a cosmopolitan and democrat.
This Is Endometriosis
In this intensely personal documentary, Georgie Wileman shares with us the challenges of her years-long struggle with endometriosis, a most nebulous chronic illness. As part of her healing, Georgie turns her camera on fellow sufferers, finding beauty in their collective experience.
Manchester in the 1970s
Talks about life in early Manchester and interviews people from abroad and what difficulties ethnic minorities faced when they first arrived to work and start a life in a new country.
Ringing Out
A small community of Bellringers discuss the decline of bellringing and what the practice means to them.
Birder
In the last 20 years, Daniel Garza has managed to photograph 850 of the 1107 species of birds that inhabit Mexico. Through his observations he has realized the urgency to preserve them.
Tekoha
On September 6, 2021, private security guards burned down a Guarani Kaiowá house at the Ava'te Tekoha ("place for living the culture") in the Dourados Indigenous Reserve in Mato Grosso do Sul. The act was captured on video by the Guarani Kaiowá.
Yarokamena
Yarokamena, a Uitoto indigenous person, organised an armed resistance to rubber exploitation in the Amazonas. He invokes the spiritual and cosmic forces of war, releasing its destructive power from its container creating a spiral of betrayal and death. Director Andrés Jurado will be present in both screenings.
Honeycomb Image / Archive Cladding
The renovation of a 1930s building in Copenhagen becomes an object for reflection on its historical relationship with the marble quarry in Greenland where the marble of the facade originates.
Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff!
In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to film their daily lives. The result: working, playing, walking, hanging around, smoking, listening to music, singing, dancing, feeling desire – being teenagers.
the unraveling of time
An American Folly. Clear the deck, light the lights....it’s showtime, folks.
The Exhibitionists
Four friends dare to get locked in the National Gallery and discover only 25 per cent of art in the Australian collection is by women. Raiding the vaults, they uncover forgotten works of art and scandalous tales of sexism.
Atardeceres
The life of José Vicente, a 83-year-old turner, archaeology and mountain lover, who decides to move away from his family and environment to start his last chapter surrounded by nature in loneliness.
Like People, They Change Too
Told through episodes, the filmmaker describes the places where they used to go with their late grandfather. As they revisit these places, they notice that the lands are no longer the same.
Mixmania: 20 Years Later
After having glued hundreds of thousands of young people to their TV sets, what were the repercussions of the MIXMANIA craze and what legacy did it leave? In MIXMANIA : 20 ANS PLUS TARD, Bianca Gervais revisits this unique phenomenon that marked an entire generation by hosting a conventum evening with those who lived it 20 years ago.
Tangled up in You
Older citizens from a little German town meet refugees in an upcycle-workshop. There they not only create new clothes out of donated knitting ware, but also form new connections with each other.
Pitch
The gig economy falls under the microscope as two filmmakers create ad videos that they then try to sell to the company’s representatives. Prejudices are both confirmed and come to shame in a film that with humor and acuity moves between different narrative levels.
Solastalgia
A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for Violeta Mora’s quest: how does one remember a landscape that is no longer there? She then interviews those who do remember it, in an attempt to make the lagoon reappear.
Contents Inventory
Every lamp, every cup, every gadget—insurance companies often require homeowners who have lost their homes in a fire to take an inventory of every object they owned. But of course this list can never show what is really of value and what is not. This is precisely what filmmaker Irene Lusztig asks about.
Global Levitations
A fabulous link between the most boring World Cup in history and the discovery of a previously unknown molecule with the exact same structure as the stitching in a classic football.
I Am One of the People
Harmful chemicals are disproportionately affecting Black communities in Southern Louisiana along the Mississippi River. I am One of the People is an experimental short film exposing the environmental racism of “Cancer Alley.”
Flatbread Files: The Case of Timothy Abernathy
When a sad, lonely man is frightened by his dead roommate possibly haunting him, he enlists the help of the Flatbread crew. Together they all document their time in the haunted apartment.
The Brightest Moment: A History of One Exceptional Elementary School
This is a story of courage, vision, and love. A dedicated band of educators and parents met the challenges of poverty, desegregation, inclusion of special needs children, and high-stakes accountability. Their determination to embrace these events reshaped their lives and resulted in public education at its finest. A story for the ages.
Niko Omilana: America's Most Racist Town
When attempting to uncover the truth about Harrison, Arkansas, prankster Niko Omilana impersonates a BBC reporter to befriend the locals and get closer to KK leader, Thomas Robb. Concluding with a prank at Robb's expense.
I Want to Sleep, Masturbate and Cry
“I want to help people fight not with death, but with life,” says Elina, a clinical psychology student. But only a video camera helps the girl to fight with her life, which she turns on closing herself in her room.
Early Winter
Paris, early winter 2020. While some are forbidden to go out, some others are trapped outside. Two taggers are painting a graff against the new global security law on a motorway tunnel wall. They are interrupted by a resident of the area, who leads us to discover an underground
Mom and Animals
An animated documentary about the difficult but very fascinating life of a person and his pets
Broken Wings
Broken Wings is the story of a one-winged American black vulture named Adonis, and the two women in his life: Jayne, a charismatic waitress who has fed him every day for 10 years, and Ann, her spiritually-minded roommate.
Mississippi Creates: Tyler Keith
Tyler Keith plays punk-inspired rock and roll influenced by his love for Mississippi and Memphis musicians, authors, and filmmakers. Tyler's story is told through oral history and two of his songs performed in their entirety at the Lyric theatre in Oxford, Mississippi.
Men In Sync
A short documentary exploring the gender inequality that male artistic swimmers are facing in the Olympics, including intimate interviews with Spanish mixed duet Pau Ribes and Emma Garcia, and legendary American male artistic swimmer Bill May.
Merveilleuse planète - Snowdonia au pays de Galles