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Popular Documentary Movies
Between the hotel and city hall
The hotel overlooks the city hall. The city hotel returns the glance. Glances bounce off each other, become directions and points headed towards, together, and outwards all just one frame apart in between the hotel and city hall.
Anerca, Breath of Life
Markku Lehmuskallio has devoted a large part of his documentary work to the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle. In this latest film, co-directed with his son Johannes Lehmuskallio, he composes a fascinating poetic ethnography inspired by the singing, dancing, forms of contemporary existence and, above all, the vital breath of these nomad communities mistreated by History.
Stay If You Can / Go If You Must
A portrait film of two female contemporary Hong Kong artists shot over ice and smoke, in which these two substances reflect the real-life, turbulent events currently playing out in the ill-fated Special Administrative Region of the PRC.
Arica
A Swedish mining giant, Boliden, is accused of having dumped 20000 tonnes of toxic waste in a poor neighborhood in a Chilean desert town.
La vida dormida
Back in the ‘90s, the wife of a Menemist politician recorded her husband’s public and private life on video. In this rigid, patriarchal family’s present day, Agustina and her aunt Bibiana build a story based on mystique and disenchantment, with tensions and silences that oscillate between love and power.
The Сity of the Sun
On a night train, a father tells his son a bedtime story. The day after, they will arrive in Siberia, 500 km away from the closest village, to follow Vissarion, a self-proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus. With his delicate voice, the boy shares his fears and fading memories. An intimate look at the dark nature of sectarianism.
Battleground
Battleground is an intimate look at our current political divide, as seen through the eyes of two grassroots activists in the pivot counties of the Lehigh Valley, PA. Tom Carroll is a Trump delegate, and a Tea Party Chairman. Greg Edwards is a Black pastor, and a progressive leader supported by Bernie Sanders. When their paths collide, we realize that they have much more in common than meets the eye.
The Rainy Season
A documentary about joys, sorrows, ups, and downs experienced by the civil society activist, Lee Eun Taek.
Kindergarten
A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning English, giving up your culture and a part of yourself.
Se habla de Gabriel
Documentary essay based on portraits of five women, their different ways of living motherhood, challenges and particularities.
Mic Drop: The Culture of Christian Hip Hop
Tracks the culture and journey of Christian hip hop from its formation to its present-day millennial influence that has caught fire once again as a "grassroots movement" among indie artists and fans across the globe.
Gevar's Land
A patch of garden on the outskirts of Reims, far, very far from his orchards in Syria. During four seasons, Gevar learns how to farm this new land that waits for no one.
Birthmark
"Birthmark" - is director's documentary journey - physical and metaphysical. Maria's mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, when the girl was two years old. Now Maria documents her journey to occupied Crimea in search of crucial answers - could her mother have more bearable life and how to get there, why the illness becomes a stigma and what are the ways to being together, but not just physically. Maria in search of Mother, under the sign of birthmark.
La Fabrique du Mensonge : Les fake news au pouvoir
Darkness Outside
Participation in the qualifying stage of the European Championship is the only chance for the visually impaired football players from the Belarusian national team to step out of the darkness and present themselves. However, the sportsmen meet considerable obstacles on their way, and only mutual support and inner light help them move towards their goal.
Company Town
A Canadian union and workers in a GM plant mobilize to save it in what will become the fight of their lives.
Haturnir
"Haturnir" is a documentary film, following Liam Ronen "The CEO" - a high school student who arranged the soccer tournament that eventually succeeded in becoming an outrageous empire. The film captures the fights, conflicts, COVID-19 influences, and competitions in this event.
Transgender Experiences in School
Seven trans and non-binary young people from across the North West area of England discuss their experiences of being transgender in their school.
Hôtel Régina
The Hotel Regina used to be an emblematic place in Touluose, with lavish settings and staircases that retain all the splendor of the 1950s in their architecture. For more than four decades, its owner, Madame Sicre -an old woman from a bourgeois family- began to rent his forty rooms to those who were looking for fast and cheap accommodation. Today, after several years in command of the building and completely exhausted, she is forced to give up the property. A young real estate agent is moved and accompanies her. However, a possible remodeling of the neighborhood threatens to turn the stories that keep the walls in ruin.
Deep in Time’s Crevasse
How can we visualise the past without perceiving it too much as a historical fact? This film uses a clever combination of archival material and oral history to bring memories of a transgenerative trauma and the associated pain to the surface.
To Escape from the Mystics in Summer
An improvisational, experimental short film, edited on intuition.
Rio Submerso
Between hangovers and floods, the film proposes a reflection on the relationship between Rio de Janeiro and the forces of water from images of archives and soundscapes that evoke conflicting aspects, however constituting a city that, formed by grounding processes, seems have as destination the submersion.
Dictee
This text explores the dislocation between mouth and language in the Asian diaspora. It charts both the breakdown and breakthrough of language vis-a-vis the mouth.
The White Massai Warrior
For the first time in history, a white man has been invited to become a Massai Warrior. The Massai of East Africa are one of the last tribes on earth to live as they did hundreds of years ago. Benjamin will live among the tribe, sleeping, hunting, and surviving in the bush. He will get to know their culture, their customs of dancing and playing, and learn how to conquer the dangers of the wilderness. Will he be able to become a true Massai warrior? To become a Massai is a great journey into the unknown.
Desastres naturales
The encounter of three movies, three territories. A personal story that portrays, through experiments revealed by images and extracts from a diary, lived meetings and inhabited places filled by forces of nature, colors, incidents and struggles.
Tu deviendras hétéro, mon fils
Assuming your homosexuality when you are American, as surprising as it may seem, is not necessarily straightforward. In the United States, 700,000 homosexuals have already undergone so-called conversion therapy. These therapies, which go by name only, promise to "fix" a deviant sexual orientation. Led by religious or pseudo-scientific communities, they do not hesitate to use humiliation and physical violence to achieve their ends and to change a person's inner identity. Conceived as a road movie, stretching from Alabama to California, this documentary immerses us in the world of conversion therapy, with powerful testimonies from victims and activists.
Haeberli
A portrait of a happy cynic and lateral thinker who has persevered for years in a legal dispute over his dilapidated house with authorities in the luxury spa town of St. Moritz.
Statue Island
An 8mm tour of some of Staten Island’s lesser known statues, and the factoids behind the memorials, culminates in a giant Hummel figurine. But why? Because.
Memoryscapes - Il gesto delle donne.
An archival compilation dedicated to a longtime neglected gesture, women's work, captured on film by small-gauge movie cameras during the Twentieth Century.
Tweetators
What if you take some of the most absurd tweets and quotes of certain politicians literally? And how could the statement "If there are no vaginas, it would be useless." be visualized in this case? A look at the most absurd word creations and phrases from everyday politics.
Singing for Loneliness
The tastes of the audience change rapidly, and in the end they are trapped in this trap of human civilization, exhausted, and even forget who they are...
