Documentary Movies

Inside Look: Hamnet

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the making of Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet," a powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of one of Shakespeare's most timeless masterpieces.

Spirit & Truth

From the creator of Calvinist comes a documentary about how God wants to be worshipped.

Périphérique Nord

A car aficionado, filmmaker Paulo Carneiro travels 2000 kilometres to meet car enthusiasts of the Portuguese community in exile. In a pop and urban universe, Périphérique Nord explores this shared passion and the freedom it provides for these exiled persons who seem to finally find (once again) a territory of their own.

Capital retour

A body in search of meaning, or the other way around. Moving, nomadic and mutant figures.

Sour Grapes

Controversy erupts when an unassuming young man floods the American wine market with fake vintages valued in the millions, bamboozling the wine world elite, in this humorous and suspenseful tale of an ingenious con on the eve of the 2008 stock market crash.

Cousin, cousine

Mariama and Damouré, two cousins, are in Venice looking for a relic—or fetish—lost a long time ago, as in one of Gentile Bellini’s famous paintings. Moving from the Grand Canal to the Niger River, the two mischievous cousins reveal to us that the relic is none other than the ritual ax of Dongo.

6th Player

Documentary film the Sixth Player follows basketball fans and their emotions throughout the European Basketball Championship in Riga in 2015. Basketball is being played for the fans and can't be enjoyed without the atmosphere created by the fans. The film follows different basketball supporters simultaneously - locally well known actors in a bar, parents of the players in the arena, random people near the big screens in the main square, veteran basketball experts at their homes, injured players following the games from their rehabilitation centre and many others. EuroBasket 2015 was a unique situation for three post-soviet neighboring countries - the Baltic states, as they were drawn into the same group in the preliminary round and everyone could witness the unique unity between these friendly countries.

Twice Colonized

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But can she both change the world and mend her own wounds?

The Velvet Underground

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.

Bico

A lyrical documentary captures a small mountain village in Portugal, showcasing its timeless essence amid historical changes. As men leave for stone-cutting work, women take charge in their absence, surrounded by snowy mountains and wandering sheep and cattle, with dogs guarding against wolves.

Madrid, Ext.

A film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid as a great visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations where commerce and fauna, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

Sfumato

Painter Bernard Legay spends his nights and days in a desinhabited world, gathering the silent matter his work is made of.

Truck Mama

“My family was shocked when they found out that I'm driving,” says Eva, a Kenyan woman, as she sits behind the wheel of a truck, heavily pregnant. She botched up her school years and was the only one in her family not to graduate. Pretty foolish, she admits in hindsight, but now she is glad to have chosen a profession she can be proud of. She sees more of the world than her brothers and sisters do.

Ângela

Ângela, like all street vendors, makes the place where she passes through the station her place of stay. Your days are uncertain and full. We know the long paths that take us between preparing food and the personal and family life that we take care of when selling these products.

The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman is a documentary film scripted and directed by Elina Kivihalme. It depicts the reality of Finnish agriculture and forestry during the war years, when the home front relied entirely upon the work and endurance of the women. All farm work, caring for the children, woodcutting and other forestry operations were undertaken by the civilians, as the men in their prime were on the front.

Nobody Dies Here

Como Se Fosse da Família

Áurea and Vander, maids all his life, reflect on the new law regulating the profession.

Western Stars

The incomparable Bruce Springsteen performs his critically acclaimed latest album and muses on life, rock, and the American dream, in this intimate and personal concert film co-directed by Thom Zimny and Springsteen himself.

Não Matarás

A Brazilian documentary that shows the cruelty of animal testing in cosmetics and drugs, as well as the obsolete use of vivisection as an educational method.

Kinbaku

In Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, man will tie a rope around it. This sacred quality of the tying can be applied also to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual, artistic connection between the people who are doing it