Documentary Movies

The Year: 2022

A look back at the top stories, trends and entertainment obsessions that defined the last 12 months.

Odyssey MD

A year-long journey during which the camera observes how life develops in various parts of the country, in towns and villages on both sides of the Dniester River. The main character of the film is Moldova—picturesque and unique, happy and sad—like some other post-Soviet states, it is a country of contrasts. Often called a land of fertility and magic, it is even more often misunderstood, and for some people it does not even exist.

Trouble Sleep

Fred, unemployed graduate like many young Nigerians, is starting a new job as a taxi driver. As for Akin, he taxes commercial vehicles for the national transport union. They both operate in the rich urban landscape of Ibadan, in which Alain Kassanda’s camera choreographs the multiplicity and perpetual power relations at play.

The Turkish Sultan Mehmed V Resad Visiting Bitola

Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.

That´s What Music is For

Documentary about “Os Mulheres Negras” , the world´s third smallest big band, discussing music, aesthetics and creation in Brazil from the 80´s till nowadays.

Suddenly Homesick

The successful filmmaker Yu Hao is always on the move and travels the world from Beijing, until she falls in love with idyllic Appenzell – and moves to Switzerland for love. Through the lens of her camera the Chinese discovers the unknown Appenzellerland and meets people, who live in harmony with nature, cultivate traditions and are rooted in their homeland. These encounters confront Yu Hao with strong doubts, for she has never felt at home in just one place. Can this change in Switzerland?

Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных

Pista

One dance floor, many bodies, a sound that moves through them.

Amadeu

Vaši eatnamat

When two different cultures meet in Hammerfest, Norway. The second is old nomadism based on a large annual cycle, another contemporary urban culture that has risen around the oil and fish industry. The collision of these two cultures is inevitable but absurd.

Atlantic Drift

An ongoing series of skateboarding web shorts by Jacob Harris focusing on the worldwide travels of Casper Brooker, Chris Jones, Mike Arnold, Nick Jensen, Remy Taveira, Sylvain Tognelli, Tom Knox and more.

MYURBANEYES

A film about urbanity and Indigeneity dedicated to Kamala Todd's child.

Nematoma komanda

"Invisible Team" is a 10-minute long film about the people who take care of Kaunas "Žalgiris" outside the sports fields, which is why they usually go unnoticed. What happens in the arena a day before the match and what work are done by the hundreds of "invisible" people who make up the big team of "Zalgiris"?

Why Not

Focal Distance

A lonely, aging photographer lives in a little town where the traces of the communist era are well-preserved. Love, loneliness, senility, sadness, tiredness, memory, reminiscences, offence… Life becomes black and white when the end is closer, when colors bleach; paper turns yellow and only in the memory faces and smiles are still bright and varied in colors.

Now!

Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s.

The Referee

Swedish soccer referee Martin Hansson had a successful journey towards his big dream in life, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Then one dark night in Paris on November 18th, 2009, all hell broke loose.

Kapr Code

This film traces the life of Jan Kapr, a prominent Czech composer of the 20th century. A documentary opera with an ambitious libretto and playful and refined editing work, Kapr Code is an unexpected celebration of creativity that shakes up our ideas of biography and pays tribute to the importance of resisting homologation and censorship through art and creation.

Être vivant

A male voice describes, with ruthless precision, the physical and mental journey of a man who has just become homeless.

My Daughter

A father and daughter have lost touch. They used to take trips to the cinema, discuss music and politics. Until her interests began to change; then her looks; then her way of speaking. And one day she told him she was going to a wedding party in Denmark. Instead she started a new life. As the wife of a jihadist living in Syria.