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Popular Documentary Movies
The Silent Disease
An intimate story of a family hit hard by addiction. They bond as they try to understand addiction as a disease, not a choice.
Lillian Finds the Zombies
Zombies return due to pending matters yet to be settled: in this case, issues related to land exploitation and family relationships through time. Set in Negaunee, Michigan, filmed outdoors with a great sense of playfulness, the movie is narrated in the present while questioning the past and thinking about the potential for a different future.
Lil Estonia
Under the direction of Soundcloud and radio DJ Siim Nestor, something is happening in Estonian music that has not been seen or heard in a long time. A new wave. New characters. New Estonia. Lil Estonia!
Let Go
The most difficult moment in parents’ lives is when their children leave home. Valentina and her long-awaited and selflessly raised son Ruslan, live in a small Latvian town. Ruslan is now a teenager and a talented young pianist. The town they live in is too small for him to develop his talent, so he should head to Riga to continue his studies. Through this film we follow along the experience and the feelings of the mother who should let her son go - and leave her.
Dear Mom
An empathic observational documentary unveils the everyday life of a terminally ill woman. Despite the paralyzing pain and the unfavourable prognosis, she keeps learning new things and builds a relationship with the woman who lovingly cares for her day and night. The trauma of the impending final farewell transforms into a strong bond between the two women. The fear of death intertwines with the feelings of closeness and gratitude.
Death of Soldier
Truong Minh Qúy’s found footage film brings together multiple scenes depicting soldier’s deaths in Vietnamese propaganda films, revealing aesthetic patterns that speak to a nationalist agenda while hinting at a broader value system within Vietnamese society.
Anti-Corpos: Pieces of a Queer Tour
In 2019, the queer-punk band Anti-Corpos decides to return to Brazil and undertake a north-south tour. The film is a portrait of this journey, being guided by the impressions and feelings of the band members.
Corvo
Corvo tells the story of how with no threats, no weapons and no violence, the magician and stunt artist, Robert J. Williams, robbed 13 banks in 2012. With unconventional narrations, untraditional reenactments, magic acts and stunts, the documentary thoroughly analyzes the sequence of life events that led to the execution of these robberies.
Paraíso
Two men measure the heights of pine trees. A woman listens to what the trees are saying. The children of the village set up the camp. A cloud of digital dots reveals the forest. The pines have said that we can ask. They always called this place 'Paraíso'. Machines will come soon.
Almost Famous: The Unchosen One
It was the late 1990s, and 3,000 young actors around the world were scouted for the role of a lifetime. On the ride home from school, Devon Michael’s mom told him he’d be auditioning for "The Phantom Menace," one of the most anticipated movies ever. From 3,000, the producers narrowed it down to three, and soon Michael was at Skywalker Ranch doing a test screen with George Lucas and Natalie Portman.
An Evening with Laila
A short documentary about the life and true story of Laila Abdulaziz, a pioneer of music in the Arabian Gulf and staple of Kuwaiti history who had a vision for the future that no one was ready for, not even herself.
The Silent Willow
Uterine fibroids affect Black women three times more than women of any other race. After being diagnosed, the filmmaker sets out to explore health inequities and find out why so many Black women are as silent as the growth.
Le silence de la mer, une édition dans la Résistance
Open mountain
On 19 July 1929, in a village in Colombia, a group of shoemakers fought to improve living and working conditions in the country. They called themselves "The Bolsheviks of Líbano, Tolima". Their revolution lasted only one day and there was an attempt to erase their trail. The women of this village meet Aura, an anarchist grandmother, with the feeling that their rebellion is still going on.
One More Day
Malgorzata (Maggie) is 50 years old. She was born with a condition called muscular dystrophy. A few years ago she stopped even moving her fingers altogether. Teamed up with Krystian (Chris), her life partner and a motorbikes lover, she sets out on a journey of a lifetime during which they try their best to slowly tame the inevitably oncoming death.
All That Is
In September 2020, the filmmaker lost 95% of her belongings in the fires that devastated Southern Oregon. With a pandemic engulfing the world in flames of its own, she embarked on a poetic journey to make meaning of the losses and to see what emerges from the ashes
Peninsula Tour
Peninsula Tour departs from Seoul and travels through the “Asian Highway” into China. This tour finds the worlds dis/continuity through air and land, virtuality and reality, old and new technologies. The tour ends up with an unexpected encounter of a German traveler who visited North Korea. The film reflects the hypocrisy and the deception of globalization, freedom and unification today through a stranger with similar experiences.
Hammoudi’s Dream
Mohammed—nicknamed Hammoudi—is 14 when he flees Syria. He and his older brother leave their mother and sisters behind and mainly walk all the way from Syria to Europe. It is a long and tough journey on which they encounter dangerous obstacles such as minefields, wild animals and violent border guards.
Angry
Some kids get very angry. So angry that they can no longer be home or in school. Parents and teachers call them bad. But are they? We meet some of these kids in the children's hospital at the psychiatry ward. Animated images accompany their voices as we discover why they are here, why they are angry, and how it makes them feel.
Heimat
Halfway between a documentary and an artistic installation, Heimat, starting from the creative fragmentation of the Last Letters from Stalingrad, a collection of letters written in December 1942 by German soldiers besieged in the Stalingrad sack, is a sensorial and universal investigation of that very mysterious object that is the memory of Home: a mysterious, elusive object, always on the verge of fading. In Heimat, the paste of old family films, brushstrokes of color and chemical residues of decomposing film coexist. A reality that becomes oneiric, almost hallucinatory.
Lost Dans l'Paradise
Lost between the trail, the forest and the factory, northern Québec’s youth wander as they ask themselves what the future will bring.
The Story of a GOTS Seed
Where do the T-shirts come from? A short stop motion story on the sustainable fashion journey of cottonseed. From a farm to a shop, watch the beautiful transformation. Discover what Global Organic Textile Standard means for the planet and its inhabitants.
Planktonium
Nature’s wonders not visible to the naked eye are revealed in a documentary shot through a microscope lens. It shows to the viewer various kinds of plankton, a ubiquitous form of life, without which life on Earth wouldn’t exist. The vivacious movements of the water microorganisms are accompanied by the music of Jana Winderen, a Norweigan artist, composed using the sounds of water organisms, waves and icebergs.
The Venture of a Family Business
On the early pandemic of Covid-19, Adel's family struggles to maintain livelihood as her mother had her work terminated by the office. The family consist of 5 kids to protect. So by then, they decided to open a family business, lead by her mom as she knows the best about food. With everyone helping around and discussing the future of the business, it led to many adventure for them as family.
PRH: The Beast from Soča River
Punk Rock Holiday documentary, 'The Beast From Soča River', gives an exclusive insight into the festival’s first decade. All its ups and downs and everything in between, that made Punk Rock Holiday into what it is today - one of the wildest & most unique festivals in Europe. The documentary takes you on a journey of Punk Rock music, stage dives, skateboarding and endless adventures on the Soča River. Fletcher from Pennywise simply called it “The best festival in the world,” so who are we to disagree? Get your Melonball and popcorn ready and just enjoy the ride!
Nuisance Bear
Documentary study of the polar bears who draw tourists to Churchill, Manitoba.
No Place Like Kasama
A Chicago couple pushes through the trials and tribulations of opening a business in the middle of a pandemic in a portrait of a Filipino restaurant finding its roots during a turbulent time.
Observatory.01
The elaborate audiovisual installation is a kind of imaginary "trialogue" between cosmic bodies in our solar system, specifically Mars, Mercury, and Venus. The supreme sound and visual rendering defined by technology contrast with the poetic diction pervading interplanetary communication. The universe may be a desolate place, but it's the proverbial human touch that gives it so much more.
Of Course!
Yasha is 14 years old, and he plays in the band Zavodoy, which he created two years ago. Zavodoy perform at fashionable Moscow venues, participate in collaborations with famous artists and record their second album, but Yasha does not lose her childlike spontaneity. His life is shown through the usual formats for his generation — including screenlife.
Of People and Food
Every year in our country, 17 million tons of usable products end up in a landfill. Part of the problem can be solved by foodsharing-saving food written off from restaurants and stores and distributing it to those in need. Every week, Ekaterina prepares food from the saved products for distribution from the Night Bus of the charity organization "Nochlezhka", young people from the TRIGLINKI community pick up products from vegetable bases and production facilities and deliver them to lonely old people. This film is about them and other food-sharing activists, their successes, problems, and dreams.
Soeurs
This intimate work, whose delicate touch is deftly contrasted with the violence of its subject, explores the liberating power of creation. A moving and carefully constructed film, as devastating as it is hopeful.
