Documentary Movies

Cicerone

A young aspiring screenwriter takes a ride along to research his script. But this is no ordinary ride along: he’s researching for a gangster film. And he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Melting Point

Infuriated by the lack of professionalism of the Malaysian Ice Hockey Federation, the young passionate star players suffer under its iron fist.

Floating

Yang is a 30-year-old itinerant singer with a complicated love life, illegally busking in China's big cities, trying to evade the authorities. Which he does, for a while...

Cosmopista Maxakali-Pataxó

Filmed on the routes between the Maxakali territory and the territories of Pataxó de Barra Velha and Reserva da Jaqueira Porto Seguro, which go through different regions currently occupied by national society, but that were once crossed incessantly by the indigenous peoples.

Papercut

A young woman rediscovers a letter from an old friend, forcing her to reconcile with the past.

Edelsmederij Begeer

Dutch Koninklijke Begeer corporate film showing their processing of precious metals and stones.

Wändari

Amid the impressive biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon, the indigenous communities of Madre de Dios are threatened daily by illegal gold and timber extraction. It is a fight to the death to preserve their identity and the memory of the Wändari, their territory.

Walker on Water

A film about Kristiina Ehin, the beloved and internationally known modern poetess of Estonia. Her honest, beautiful and painful sharings reveal to us what experiences she has had to go through to grow into the woman and poet we know her as today. The film contains topics that Kristiina agreed to share for the first time during the filming of "Walker on Water".

Zakura

Zakura is a bright seven-year-old Bedouin girl. In a few years her father Arafat must marry her off. Traditions say so.

Ying and Bai

The Documentary record the life of a panda, Ying, and his Trainer, Bai, in their small residential room inside China Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe. They both share a life behind bars where the outside world is out of reach and only accessible through a television.

Creativ

Creativ was an avant-garde jazz duo performing under the oppressive regime of 1980s communist Romania. Due to state censorship, they could not release albums in their own country - and yet they became pioneers of free-jazz in the West.

Fernweh und Flugscham - Wie wollen wir in Zukunft reisen ?

The Circle

The Circle is a documentary about the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100m underground. It is a 27km particle accelerator used by physicists to study the origin of everything. Results and interpretation of the collisions of particles will revolutionize our understanding of the Universe and how it began. The Circle leaves the scientific aspect of the experiment and makes a journey above the ground. We follow the 27km circle in an existential search for local people with an opinion about what's happening below.

Melek Leaves

In 1970, Melek Tez came to Berlin as a young worker from Turkey. A confident woman, she first countered racist resentments and remarks with irony and wit. Jokingly, she even referred to herself as a "Kümmeltürkin", a derogatory German term for Turkish migrants. Yet after fourteen humiliating years, her fighting spirit has given way to resignation: Melek Tez is returning to Turkey. Blending documentary, interviews and re-enacted scenes, director Jeanine Meerapfel chronicles Melek Tez' life experience.

New Life

Parenthood is an adventure like no other, not least in the world of adventure, where reward is constantly measured against potential risk. From fear of losing sponsors to the challenge of maintaining their expedition-led lifestyles, “New Life” chronicles the journey of The North Face’s Caroline Ciavaldini and James Pearson and documents the shifting priorities that come with raising a son in a world that revolves around climbing and outdoor exploration.

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.

Si ingenting

The rap artist Kamelen has in recent years become a celebrity in Norway. Of course because of the music, but not least because of a rough lifestyle and several meetings with the police. In the movie Si ingenting, we get to know Marcus, the man behind the artist name Kamelen.

Journey Diary

The film was inspired by Mieczysława Nogajewska, the prewar proprietress of "Foto-Elite" - a well-known photo studio in the city of Gdynia. WhenWorld War II outbroke, Nogajewska lost her entire livelihood; she spent many years wandering around Poland in search of a safe place to live and reopen her studio.

Felvidek – Caught in Between

In her documentary on Hungarian-Slovak relations, Vladislava Plancíková focuses on the word "felvidék", which refers to the now non-existent northern part of Austro-Hungary. In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her Slovak-Hungarian family and of visual references to historical events, she follows the eventful and today often taboo history of the post-war fate of Hungarians on Slovak soil. The abstract topic grabs our interest not only through the witnesses' testimony, but also by using thre novel technique of animating real objects, including a number of contemporary and modern photographs.

Variations ordinaires

Roubaix, a city with an industrial past, is today one of France’s most destitute areas. During six months of shooting in public places, the filmmaker asked the townspeople to think of one or more things they had been told in the past and that had somehow changed them. Through thirteen sequence shots and microscopic images, she then constructed a sort of cartography of micro-transformations of human trajectories, a poetical study of the dynamism of individuals. In between the extraneousness of the images and the intimate closeness of the voices, the ambiguous space of the singular/plural identity is offered to the experience of the public.