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Popular Documentary Movies
Hijack 139
There once was a man feeling sad and in pain, so to get some attention, he hijacks a plane! But seizing an aircraft is quite the chore, so he guzzles a beer. And another. Then a few more. What happened next might seem unbelievable to you, but make no mistake, it's all quite true. Story about the incident on a Braathens SAFE's flight 139 on June 21 1985.
The Cemetery
Relegated to the middle of an industrial zone in the suburbs, the Muslim cemetery of Bobigny dates back to the colonial era. Fatima Kaci makes it the set of encounters, rituals, voices and presences of its visitors. Fragments of a common memory between France and Algeria erupt from the spoken dialogues and within the hollow of the silences.
Poetry from the Swamp
Underground Belarusian poets read their own verses inspired by the experience of living in 2020s Belarus. Sometimes poetic fiction and harsh reality collide in the picturesque backgrounds.
263 Nights
This Belorusian animated documentary is narrated by the People’s Artist of Russia Aristarkh Livanov. It is an actual story of the 26 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto who have voluntarily confined themselves in the basement, short on food and water — and waited for the Red Army to arrive. They have spent the terrible 263 days and nights there. The youngest son of the stove maker Pinchus Dobin, who built that heaven-sent and hell-bent basement, is still alive.
Dasha Had a Dream
A documentary dream of a girl who cannot wake up from a traumatic but alluring past, where she was close to her loved ones.
In the Car
This is an experiment about recording a long lens of a space, two people, and a device. The director and producer are the boyfriend and girlfriend present in the car, and the GoPro placed in front of the car realistically records the daily conversations, arguments, kisses, and tears inside the car. The experiment lasted for a month, with misunderstandings, emotions, rationality, restraint, and helplessness.
Fem.Doc
Where did the stereotypes come from that the "clock is ticking" and a woman must necessarily give birth to children under the pressure of social opinion before the age of 30? Forced pregnancy, reproductive violence and its victims — in the documentary "Fem.doc ".
Arne Jacobsen’s Modern Denmark
Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Denmark’s greatest architects. His ideas were ahead of their time and often received criticism, but today, 50 years after his death, Arne Jacobsen's schools, town halls and libraries are still with us, and they define modern Denmark.
Inside Mexico's Most Powerful Drug Cartel
"Tens of thousands are missing, many more murdered. So why are Mexico’s violent drug cartels operating with impunity? We go inside the most powerful cartel to meet the footsoldiers. Corruption, they say, goes right to the top. Produced in collaboration with Ben Zand and Vice TV."
Never give up Laura Rogora
Laura Rogora is a special person: the strongest female climber in the world and she’s only 19. Now she is on the way to the Olympics Tokyo 2021 for the first time ever.
Uragano negli occhi
Five years of work, a one-hour movie, two zines with more than a hundred coloured pages. Hand screen-printed cover, 350 numbered copies. These are the numbers of URAGANO NEGLI OCCHI, a true story (self)built in the sweaty and smoky corners of the illegal Milan of occupations and hardcore punk concerts. Dozens of voices, interviews, flyers, illustrations and photographs describe a heterogeneous community of individuals, squats and collectives that in recent years has experienced an explosion of vitality, moving with enthusiasm and determination in the contradictions of the metropolitan city of Milan, affirming an unprecedented approach to Do It Yourself practices. An entirely self-produced narrative and visual project, conceived, developed and finalized in our spare time, with a lot of unexpected events in between.
In Search of the Valkyrie
The story of the writer's life and work, telling about the search and finding the Way, about the fusion of reality and fairy tales. The hero finds answers at the junction of two worlds — material and spiritual. In his books, he gives the reader the opportunity to see this facet as well. So what is hidden between the lines? The film will answer the main question: where is the truth here, and where is the fiction?
Under The White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made
Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts, which has been qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks – now subjects, and not objects – would say. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. Under The White Mask is limited to the elements already existing in 1958.
Cess
Cesur is a commissioner who has worked in various places in Kemeraltı for 25 years. While telling about his experiences since his childhood, he goes on an exploration in the colorful streets of Kemeraltı with his camera.
The Time We Have Left
If you knew today what our changing climate would do to your family in 30 years, what would you do, right now, while there was still time to act? This short film examines the human experience of survival during a time of transformation destined to be inscribed forever in Earth’s geological record.
Blackburn Sings Christmas with Gareth Malone
Choirmaster Gareth Malone travels to Blackburn, one of the areas hardest hit by Covid-19, to stage a concert with local musical talent that brings the whole town together.
Faces
'Faces' is a short documentary in which several young people discuss the joys and challenges of being mixed race against visuals of an interracial couple in the throes of embrace.
Awakening
Awakening is a semi-documentary, semi-fictional film that approaches the journey of it's main character, who cannot find peace he seeks in the urban life, along with the various disconnections he encounter in human relations during this time, and seeks the source of the escape he demands at a different point each scene.
Para Dan
A correspondence filmed during the health crisis in Ecuador. This letter documents both the notions of refuge and tragedy while discovering the news of missing corpses in hospitals collapsed by the pandemic.
Dad
What is it like to grow up under the rigid control of a strict and meticulous – if not downright puritantical – father? A funny, yet heartbreaking, snapshot of a childhood, overshadowed by disapproval and discipline.
4pm, Coffee
Daily afternoon ritual. Made with the help of my partner, Patrick Londen, and featuring Katoosh.
Modern Korea – Doing Our Best the People's Network
This Is Not Our Fault
The Brazilian constitutional rupture is recurrent and lurking. In this documentary-essay, the Tupiniquim coup framework is revealed.
27A
A documentary journey-essay about memory and home. The film's director Daria Likhaya returns to her childhood home and her trip is followed by veracious stories. A spotted dress, a KAMAZ left in a courtyard, a woman's face in the window—every detail becomes a source of memories. The impressions of strangers are intertwined and mixed, the border between the virtual and the real becomes blurred.
Blue Distance
Occupying gaps in memory and history, Blue Distance serves as a personal and poetic intervention into the filmmaker’s familial immigration story. The film places in communion the mythic powers of cinema and the production of personal and cultural histories. Underpinning these tensions is the immigratory reality of occupying stolen land while trying to secure one’s own actualization.
The Bad Man
A documentary of the life story of a violent and bloodthirsty young man from Kachin, Myanmar, who casually discusses killing as if it were not his own story. His past of a non-voluntary, military life has cost him a great deal and completely changed his post-military life. With all the wounds and experiences, he is now considering which path to take for the future.
Blooming in the Desert
Three women in Raqqa, NE Syria, are rebuilding their future after enduring incredible violence. First, the Baath regime wanted them in the house, then the violence of the Islamic State. Since October 2017 when the SDF recaptured the city, they had the opportunity to organize themselves and pick up new roles in society.
Vanya at Large
A political prisoner convicted for terrorism at the age of 17 gets out of jail after a decade of hard labour and tries to catch on to being free in today’s Russia.