Documentary Movies

VALKYRIES

De stichter

A documentary about the first Belgian king, Leopold I.

Die Kundin

Where Did The Fathers Go?

The children who were sent to Siberia in 1941 have not seen their fathers – in their memories they recollect: “My father was arrested, he was sent to Vyatlag camp. He died there in March, 1942. He was not convicted. Father was tried in the autumn of 1942, when he was already dead, Moscow Troika verdict: 10 years in prison and confiscation of property...”The railcar moves along overgrown rails. For 70 years, the twelve participants of the journey have wanted to go to the places from where their fathers did not return. Among the harsh nature the tension on their faces shows.

Anayeli

Anayeli is a young indigenous nahua with epilepsy and lives in the Sierra Negra of Puebla. On her day to day, she faces the condition she’s had since she was a little girl, rejection from a mother who left her when she was born, and the sexual abuse she suffered since her teenage years by many members of her community. She goes out to know the world that surrounds her, clinging to a dream: the celebration of her fifteenth birthday.

Aloni

A young student heads back to his village during the COVID-19 lockdown to collect ethnographic material for his thesis, but as quarantine stretches on, the rituals and everyday scenes he records start bringing back childhood memories-leading him to piece the footage together into something more personal.

Moacir

Estilo Libre

After spending five years in prison, rapper Matías Escobar moves to the calm of a beach resort during the off-season. The sea, old friends, melancholy, and loneliness plunge him into an introspective limbo where writing and songwriting flow.

Laughing in Afghanistan

Karim Asir, the Afghan Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of bombs and disasters, gives performances using laughter as his only weapon. When the Taliban takeover, Karim is threatened with death. After a series of adversities, he manages to arrive in Greece. We follow his life adventure, and through his story, we explore the issue of laughter – in Afghanistan and beyond.

Corsica, Naturally

Charlie, Wendy and Holly are joined by Regis, Jocelyne and Armelle investigate the naturist opportunities on Corsica. They visit the lovely seaside resorts of Bagheera and Villata with their splendid beaches and numerous facilities, before heading to the mountainous resort of U Furu where waterfalls and sparkling pools provide enchanting delight.

Mariana

In 2022, Mariana (36) is imprisoned for drug trafficking—a desperate act committed to support her child amid economic instability and a crumbling family life. Behind bars, she finds time to confront her past and seek redemption. The arrival of the 2025 Jubilee Year offers her a glimmer of hope for a fresh start. Upon her parole in December 2025, Mariana reaches a profound realization: her true duty as a mother is not measured by the money she provides through crime, but by the love and presence she offers her child.

Olho Animal

This is the story of a film-making dog. In a series of return trips between Brittany and Lisbon, the protagonist, along with a producer, conjures up a film through the prism of ethology, in search of the sincerity of the animal gaze. An animal comedy that includes hundreds of images of dogs that have appeared in films over the history of cinema.

Layer of Destruction

In 1972, to provide Athens with water, a bold project began, involving the creation of an artificial lake from the water of Mornos River, leading, however, to the destruction of the Velouchovo village, and the ancient town of Kallipolis.

El General

The glimpse into the life of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles. Past and present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. Time is blurred in this visually arresting portrait of a family and country living under the shadows of the past.

Gebroken Kabul

Brasília: Planejamento Urbano

The planning of the city, linking its architecture to its topography and the reasons that allow it to have normal and continuous traffic, eliminating the circulation problems of all major cities. Details of the buildings destined for the Government, the residences and the commerce. (Brazilian Cinematheque)

Adrift

Shot in only one night following the experiences and methods of the Situacionists about redifining the urban scenario, Adrift tries to find new meanings in the city landscape, to catch furtives atmospheres, to treasure instants, to integrate the chance in a journey that, in retrospective, asumes a new, autonomous form. In that sense, it's an experiment that uses the streets to perform a human comedy in perpetual movement.

Eloy de la Iglesia: Film Addict

A dauntless film director, an enfant terrible in his early days, confrontational with censorship, always pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression, chronicler of the darkest corners of the transition, De la Iglesia will fall into the clutches of drug addiction, being forgotten and sometimes repudiated for more than a decade before eventually shaking off the ostracism to make films once again, that habit he could never kick.

Skateparks

Between poorly paved roads and hidden parks are the spaces created for the enjoyment of those who are passionate about four-wheeled boards. Skateparks proposes a day trip to these places, approaching their architectural designs that defy gravity and those young people who by chance, by leaving home or by stubbornness when taking a trick, inhabit them.

Ingrid

An intimate portrait of a body.