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Popular Documentary Movies
Paper of Asao
The documentary narrates the life of Asao Shimura, a wandering artist, bookmaker, and papermaker from Japan. He traveled across Japan to learn and share his passion for traditional papermaking. Until he came to the Philippines and decided to build his handmade paper dreams in the tranquil mountain of Sitio Poking in Benguet.
Looking for El Santo
The granddaughter of original El Santo producer Jorge Garcia-Besné and the archivist behind the restoration of the first two El Santo pictures travel to Havana, Cuba, to clandestinely visit the locations where the original films were made, and granddaughter Viviana realizes the trip was as much of a journey to chart her family evolution as of historical cinema exercise. Filmed almost entirely on iPhones to avoid drawing the attention of the authorities, it is also a brief portrait of a resilient population faced with a daily struggle to feed themselves under a severe embargo from the West.
Number One
Twelve-year-old Arianas is preparing for the Lithuanian championship of Standard and Latin American dances with his partner. The couple must understand the world of adults - learn to demonstrate masculinity, feminine seduction and self-selling. But is that enough to win the championship?
Mut Me Lule
Two villages in two nations are contrasted with each other. Two people live here: the maternal grandmother and the paternal grandfather talk a lot, but not with each other.
Professor Gibert
After graduating from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Grigory Gibert did not stay in Moscow but moved to Krasnodar, where he became the leading expert on the history of cinema in Southern Russia. Over 30 years, he educated thousands of students. Now, Grigory Gibert is embarking on a journey to his roots in Yakutia to find his father's grave. This journey is the most important film for him.
Recognition
A talented Buryat artist, working with stone in a unique technique, diligently contributes to his beloved Buryatia. His stones intricately and gracefully encode ethno-cultural motifs, mythology, and the uniqueness of the Buryat people. Will he have the opportunity to implement a significant monumental project, in addition to his small indoor works? This question troubles him, but recognition comes unexpectedly.
A Medic
This film tells the story of a young, 22-year-old doctor who decieded to work in a valley with severe climate conditions, where no other doctor agreed to work.
Kat Ellinger on American Gothic and Female Hysteria
A visual essay on American Gothic and Female Hysteria, produced by Radiance Films for its release of "Messiah of Evil".
Tales from Donbas
The author of the film lost her home for the first time back in 2014 and has been calling herself a tumbleweed ever since. Now she returns to her childhood memories and, over the course of thirty minutes, introduces the audience to four stories about the main industries of her native land. The film uses footage shot during the director's last trip to Donbas, where many places no longer exist.
Nasrin
Nasrin; a wild rose, purged of its share of dry branches tries to flourish in Iran.
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[Un]Settled
In a village from the Republic of Moldova, a girl tries to navigate her relationship with her grandmother who insists that she should get married and settle down. Focusing on her grandmother's presence, Siretanu records the trivial day to day life, observing the deployment of domestic space and female identity.
A Home on Every Floor
An art documentary based on growing up and a poem by artist and social debater Hanna Asefaw. A visual coming-of-age story from a council house in Grünerløkka in the late 90s that depicts memories, nostalgia and looking back on a childhood, with Hanna's voice as the mainstay. A unique insight into human tragedy and warmth – across cultures and class.
Record of Life: Those Who Fought in the Okawa Tsunami Trial
On March 11, 2011, Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City was engulfed by a tsunami, and 74 children, or 70% of the school's children, were killed. 51 minutes elapsed between the earthquake and when the tsunami reached the school. The school was informed of the tsunami and a school bus was on standby, but students did not evacuate. Okawa Elementary was the only school that suffered a large number of casualties in this earthquake. This documentary follows the lawsuit that followed the disaster, where the parents sought the truth behind the tragedy.
Hortulus Farm: Where History & Horticulture Meet
Hortulus Farm is an 18th-century farmstead, public garden, and horticulture education center in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The farm once functioned as a major dairy operation until the Great Depression. In 1980, famed garden and event designer Renny Reynolds and garden author Jack Staub restored the property with 24 exquisitely designed flower and vegetable gardens and a horticulture museum.
Constellation of Peter Chardynin
The film tells about the life and work of Russia's first professional film director Peter Chardynin.
Three Museums on the Shore
In ancient settlements on the banks of the great Yenisei, the traditions of personal, personalized museums are being revived. For the tourists of the cruise ship, this is a far distance and wild exotic, and for the indigenous people it is their homeland.
The Silent Witness
Tomiko Morimoto West reflects on her time as a 13-year-old girl in Hiroshima and recounts what she witnessed, how she survived, and the impact of the experience.
Eve After Dark
From Super Bowl LVI recognition to ushering in the rap group N.W.A, Eve After Dark explores the legacy of the first hip-hop club on the West Coast.
Back to Our Homeland
A group of older Cabécares from Talamanca rediscover their past when they visit for the first time since they left the indigenous territory of China Kichá, in Pérez Zeledón, where they were born, grew up and left. In the process, they get to know the generations that did remain in the territory and that are currently in the process of fighting for the recovery of the land. "Returning to the land where we were born" is a documentary that deals with the memory of dispossession and the current struggle for the recovery of lands of the indigenous community of China Kichá.
Chamán
The old Shaman makes his last trip to the Amazon jungle in search of a special beeswax for arrows that he learned to make when he had not yet been contacted by Western culture
El declive de los supermercados. Un modelo en extinción
Maisons et hôtels de légende : Auberge du Père Bise
Night Audit
Empty hallways, check-in desks, and liminal spaces are the background for hotel employees to reflect on the ups and downs of working the night shift.
Obsolete
In the bustling city of Mumbai where life never stops, a couple decide to end their life, becoming India’s first couple to appeal for Euthanasia. Living together for over 53 years in a tiny space, in a 100-year-old Chawl, they are ordinary citizens seeking to get their voice heard in a world that doesn’t see them. We delve into their inner and emotional worlds to explore what lies beneath this profound choice, one that challenges societal beliefs in karma, afterlife. The film intimately follows their daily life as they await official response. Framed within immediate spaces, inside their room and the vibrant community outside their door, with its non-stop motions of life makes them feel trapped. This ethnic microcosm, reveals universal themes of love, loss, freedom, dignity, ageing. An unexpected crisis brings the couple to a crucial crossroad. Will they succeed in their quest?
Tip/Alli
The documentary Tip/Alli explores the work, life, and influence of feminist science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice B. Sheldon, 1915-87).
Ohio Walnuts
A feature documentary about Ohio-based artist Sparks McFly and his friends as they attempt to conceptualize, write, record, and produce a rap album over the course of just 7 days.
The Bravery to Blossom in Darkness
A group of extraordinary children, a school lost in the Tanzanian mountains and many legends. How are they intertwined and what might their stories have in common? But above all, where does the courage to blossom in the dark lie?
Inside the BoduMas
Eid al-Adha is the "feast of sacrifice", it commemorates the end of Haji, an annual muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Muslims all over the world celebrate the feast by sacrificing an animal, usually a goat. In the Maldives, the celebration and the sacrifice is related to a Big Fish, the "BoduMas", and takes place through various cultural, sporting and religious moments, that unite the island communities.
Expédition Sarawak 93
In 1996, Rémy Schejbal, a seasoned spelunker, assembled a small team and headed to Malaysia. His goal: to photograph the largest cave in the world for the first time.
Dancing Free
Three choreographers at the beginning of their careers selected for the first edition of the LAC Lugano Dance Project festival.
Dolls Don't Die
The art of making the inanimate move, talk, laugh, dance, cry was perhaps the most prized inheritance Madhab received from his father; he lapped it up and made it central to his existence. As he helplessly witnesses the fast fading popularity of the puppet theatres and his own team is nearly defunct, Madhab fears that he is heading towards obscurity. Dolls Don’t Die chronicles the battles and dreams of a man who is caught between the rugged realities and the ecstasies of a passionate artist. It celebrates his lonely, gritty fight, which he put up simply to keep his artistic practice alive.
The Killing of JFK: Minute by Minute
A dissection of events around the assassination of President John Kennedy, charting the timelines of head of security Roy Kellerman, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jackie Kennedy.
Consuelo
Presented as a documentary, the film revolves around scenes from the life of Consuelo, a 71 year-old widow, captured through the lens of her grandchild for what she claims to be a school project. The two women speak and interact as they work together to make the film. Along the way, they reveal to one another the small desperate ways they hold onto things that have since slipped away from their grasp.
Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
Professor Alice Roberts uncovers the science being used by computer scientist Professor Brent Seales as he utilises cutting-edge technology to read hundreds of carbonised scrolls that were buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
Blind Mr. Shiratori Goes to See Art
Kenji Shiratori, a blind man, visited an art museum for the first time on a date with his girlfriend. That day, as he listened to the words spoken in front of the work, he began to think, Maybe it's possible to see art even if you're completely blind.
Why the Long Coffee?
In the winter of 2019, to overcome my fatherly pain, the filmmaker captures the hospitalization of his son Nathan, on the threshold of his uncertain entry into adulthood.