Documentary Movies

Xalko

A small village in Turkish Anatolia slowly becomes a ghost town as families move abroad, leaving behind a group of dedicated women who keep things running, in this rare document of the hidden consequences of migratio Xalko is Director Sami Mermer’s birthplace, as he returns from his new home in Canada to reconnect with his relatives. Along with the help of Co-director Hind Benchekroun, the film is afforded an intimacy and honesty that doesn’t come easy as the women divulge the details of their private lives and frustrations. They eschew sentimentality for a grounded look at an increasingly unfamiliar way of life.

Crías

In the lowest of the literary underworld, forgotten, our teenage diaries live badly. Crías builds an archive with these invisible writings, imagines ways to dialogue with him and collects his destruction. A feminist film-zine that alchemizes personal shames through communal discourses, while reconciling with the process of writing and rewriting life, diary work and creative work. We live by counting on each other.

Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio.

Casa Coraggio

Sofía travels from La Plata to Los Toldos, her hometown. During her stay, Sofía will assist her father, who is in poor health, with the funeral work being done by Casa Coraggio, the family business. In the history of her ancestors, each one has had to take on this responsibility and continue a legacy that spans more than 120 years. Amidst an atmosphere of life and death, Sofía struggles between following tradition or choosing a new path.

Arizona

A contemplative and poetic short film depicting the otherworldly landscapes of North American deserts.

White Guitar

The story of an unfinished documentary about Alfredo Zitarrosa and that of his director, Francisco "Papico" Cibils.

Philippe Bouvard, une vie de rires

Delhi Dreams

Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul are scared of losing their homes. They live in Kathputli Colony, Delhi’s largest community of traditional artists. Puppeteers, singers, dancers and daily wage workers from all over India live here. But the government has decided to demolish the colony and resettle the people in high rises. Kusum, Vijay, and Rahul soon find themselves at the centre of a spirited and creative resistance movement against the government’s plans.

Leegstaand monument

Documentary about the monument Joods Werkdorp.

De stichter

A documentary about the first Belgian king, Leopold I.

The Sweet Bread of Exile

A documentary about classic Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's time of exile in Berlin, Germany.

A Devil with Harpoon

The story of Lars "Faen" Andersen, the man who killed the most number of whales in history

Bonnie Scotland

Travelogue released on September 25th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Noti Salud

News from Peru.

The Dread

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and illnesses as there are residents in the village. 65 year old Jorge can also cure the most dreaded ailment of them all, the much feared espanto.

Tasting Freedom

'Tasting Freedom' documents the struggles of asylum seekers in Britain for recognition of their basic human rights and investigates abuses on asylum seekers in detention centres and prisons. The documentary gives a startling account of how people who have come to Britain to find freedom are instead persecuted.

São Silvestre

This short film was made as a study for the feature film "São Silvestre".

Living memories

Living Memories is a documentary film that traces the history of the director’s neighborhood and native country, Haiti, through a personal and engaged perspective. Brick by brick, through encounters and wanderings throughout Port-au-Prince’s neighborhoods, archival photos, graffiti, and animations, the filmmaker introduces us to architect Léon Mathon and the residential architecture of the early 20th century. Over the ruins of her family home, Dominique, the director's mother, an architect like her father and grandfather before her, searches through her memories and significant places for traces of the past and the history of her country. Many of her landmarks are no longer there. From this tragedy arises a quest — a need to reconnect memory and history to understand the present better. The filmmaker follows her mother during her journey, capturing her reflections and conversations and documenting them to bring memories back to life.

#BLESSED

C3 is an Evangelical church that opened in Toronto in 2013, quickly amassing a large following amongst the city’s young, hip and tattooed. #BLESSED offers an intimate look inside this fast-growing millennial church and follows the process of selling salvation in the 21st century as Pastor Sam and his team grow the church from two locations to three, living out their mission to save as many Torontonian souls as possible.

Salinger

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.