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Popular Documentary Movies
Stone in the Well
The Stone in the Well is the effort of those who realize the colors in the world to guide those who lose their light. The documentary, which is the voice of helping people who have isolated themselves from the outside world, aims to reach those who cannot hear the music, cannot see the sun, and who are behind locked doors.
Schellack - Eine schwarze Scheibe verändert die Welt
Alturas
In the glistening light of the vast Andean mountains lies the village of Contay, three hours away from the nearest bigger city. The myth here says that who dreams of snakes, will argue with their husband the next day. Dreaming of music, brings good news instead. This is the home of Elisa Taboada and her family. She is campaigning in the regional elections as a community speaker, aiming to bring more attention to women’s rights.
Correspondence
In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.
Zakura
Zakura is a bright seven-year-old Bedouin girl. In a few years her father Arafat must marry her off. Traditions say so.
Ice-Cream Killer
After reading an article in an old newspaper, an anti-social boy decides to interview some people and then kill them with poisoned ice creams.
Guerrières
Ingrid Falaise reveals the touching story of five women who fight for their integrity and their lives in order to change the course of their story as well as that of other women living in similar situations. These women want to change a failing system and their struggle goes beyond their personal quest.
To Teach a Bird to Fly
This experimental nature documentary by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts depicts climate change and the wave of extinction from the point of view of our near future. Actually, it depicts the age we live in now, or rather its fateful consequences.
Cidade Correria
Cidade Correria is Brazil pulsating and radically collective. Encounter with the overflowing of everyday urgencies, contradictions and potencies through the voice and birth of Coletivo Bonobando.
Born in the North
Nadia and Nikolai Fyodorovich's job is to save children in the North. They are both air ambulance doctors, but with different experience: Nikolai Fedorovich has been working for more than 40 years, and Nadia-3 years. About the difficult everyday life of doctors – a documentary by Anna Katorina.
Parquet Courts – On Time!
A celebration of Parquet Courts' 10th anniversary, including a live performance at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, archival footage, and interviews.
Der größte Gegner ist das Klischee - 50 Jahre Frauenfußball
Language of the rain
At the age of 15 I left my home in Ñuu Savi. I began my training and interest in learning the language my family speaks. Now that I return, my father has passed away; and with him his tongue.
15 Days
15 days before the Christmas concert in Sunday school. Sasha and Tikhon, pupils of the school, will spend all this time with their parents, argue with them at family evenings with or without a reason, and gradually begin to realize that the "children" truth can be more true than the "adult".
Home Arrest
A documentary series about living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project participants are people from different countries who have different attitudes towards forced seclusion and are ready for a lively discussion. “When it's time to close at home, it's time to open up to the world,” is one of the series' slogans.
Yellow Trails
An identity picture and the memory of Contla village through its Día de Muertos festivity. Celebration where the making of traditional bread, an offering colocation, and the embellishment of their family get mixed with mysticism and the yearning of the people community, preserving a tradition that interweaves for moments as a remembering in the México's heart.
Fram – Forward
Why do we do incredibly difficult things that have no practical application? Is there a parallel between geographic and artistic exploration? Fram is a documentary and travel film about two friends journeying to the end of the earth, in order to make a dance film in the arctic wilderness of Svalbard. En route, they explore the history of our ideas of the Arctic, along with the grand questions of life, art and our place in the world. Sharing their love of discovering new geographic and artistic frontiers, choreographer-dancer-filmmakers and outdoor enthusiasts Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio take the viewer on an engaging journey to a place where few have been and even fewer have danced.
All I Need is a Ball
Paloma Pujol, footbag world champion, is the only female freestyler in Spain. She’s 31 years old and knows that soon her body will not respond to the demands of this sport. But she can’t retire without knowing that other girls are following her steps.
Poilean
Solar meditation in the middle of a field of sunflowers, where vision and touch complement each other in a sensory immersion experience.
Puto Paraíso
Guadalajara is a diverse city. Through six stories of the LGBTIQ + community, a reflection on inclusion that celebrates diversity is built.
Aos Olhos de Uma Criança
Caetano, Cecília, Iaracy and Stephany, with their different geographical contexts, social classes and ethnicities dominate the narrative of the short documentary, "In the eyes of a Child" to present the world with their experiences, their looks and feelings about this moment of social isolation triggered by the COVID-19 virus.
AKÁ
Adolfo, a young Rrámuri, feels the need to document everything around him, becoming the first videographer in his community.
New Gods
User LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.
Balcony
A week before Independence Day, Elad’s entire world is falling apart. A breakup urges him to move out and find a new place, On the balcony above “Occupiers Street,” While confronting traumatic memories from his past, He seeks to reconnect with the people close to him And with those observed who remain somehow distant. Feeling socially invisible, On the most patriotic week of the year, His feelings of guilt and social isolation reach a climax.
Wilfred and Alexandra
A double portrait against the background of the past war: two participants of the Second world war-a former Wehrmacht soldier Wilfred and Alexandra, who lived in the occupied territory-talk about hatred, fear and death, which failed to destroy them.
Point Symmetry
Lisa Rosowsky and Ute Gfrerer are two Boston-based middle-aged women. Both women share their love for art and their sad family histories. Ute’s father was a German soldier and a member of the Nazi Youth, and Lisa’s father of Jewish descent survived Auschwitz. At one point, Lisa and Ute decide to turn their tragic memories into something beautiful and organize an arts evening dedicated to their fathers. Lisa is an artist - she creates pieces that explore her relationship with the Holocaust. Ute is an opera singer, who chooses to perform works of Jewish composers that were once banned. Together they host several events in Boston.
I Maid a Mistake
A heartwarming documentary about YouTuber Anthony Padilla's journey becoming an anime cafe maid to learn the truth about the highly taboo and misunderstood form of entertainment.
Footage on the Highway: a short film by Adam Lumir
An experimental film constructed of strange footage of a highway.
The Free Ones
The Free Ones is a full-length documentary feature which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hopes and fears during this six-month transition period.
Our Friend Jon
Before Jon Hernandez passed away due to complications stemming from Sickle Cell Anemia, he was writing a horror film he wanted to make with his friends. Upon his untimely death his friends (all whom have their own disabilities) decide to make the film in Jon's honor, even though they have no clue where to start. This is that story.
Lázaro
Lázaro is a film that portrays the journey of a father to the depths of his mind and the places where he built his life. Upon learning of his illness, he decides to bring his family together: a wife that he was separated from for twenty years and who returns to care for him, and a son who returns from a long journey to be by his side. An attempt is made to mend a broken bond, to unite a family in the moment of parting.
London Knowledge
Since 1865, no cab driver in London has been able to omit “The Knowledge”. It requires the memorisation of 320 routes, an achievement that takes years, but has been made into a joke by the robot cars of the future. A flesh-and-blood cabby “interacts with people from all walks of life,” according to a brochure by Transport for London, and that’s “a lot more than just taking people from A to B.” Visually fascinating, Colson traces his interviewees’ mind maps of the city using the mapping technology of robot cars.