Documentary Movies

La Patria

Get Busy

A documentary following the Swedish hip-hop group Advanced Patrol, after their member Chafic's tragic suicide.

Jäätants

Pěstování semen

Sensitive Data

Spaces of terror, produced by massacre or disappearance, do not belong to far away galaxies, or to some kind of no one’s land, but are inserted in our everyday geographies. We coexist with them, often without seeing or perceiving. They have a voice and things to tell, so let’s start listening.

Cracolândia

Based on intense research - and seen through different realities, that of those who study it, that of those who try to contain it and that of those who live in it -, the film opens a debate about the largest and most impacting scene of crack use in an open area of ​​the world: Cracolândia, in São Paulo. The work analyzes the causes of this evil and its progressions, in addition to the combat tactics already carried out in São Paulo, opening a parallel with those applied in other countries.

A piacere

The struggles of an franelero in a little town in Southern Italy

Justice In Translation

Lupita is a pioneer in the training of interpreters for Chihuahua’s justice system. This short accompanies her from the Tarahumara Mountains to the inside of prisons, where she assists those who speak her own language and explores her commitment in facilitating their trials.

Nos Empreintes

Habit

There are as many paths as there are people. Some choose to be carpet salesman, others choose to be skiers. These behaviors are part of life's routine, and consciously or not, we're all slaves to it somehow. But you can't have the result without the process- you must get up to go down. Let this be your field guide to the minutia, the frivolities and of course the addiction to pure, uncut, freedom. Go ahead, scratch that itch. Because after all, we are creatures of HABIT.

Hondarrak

The ruins of a falling apart care system frame the stories of two women whose job is to always be. Wait. Always.

Chichirimico

Second documentary feature by cinematographer Daniel Avilés.

No Peito, Na Raça

Feminino Cangaço

The Specialist

Composed exclusively of the footage recorded by Leo Hurwitz during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, A Specialist is a courtroom drama painting the portait of a zealous bureaucrat who has immense respect for the Law and hierarchy, a police official responsible for the elimination of several million people, a modern criminal.

Edges

Paolo is a 22-year-old boy and experiences a constant sense of inadequacy and ineptitude, due to his complex relationship with his mother, unaware of his homosexuality, and to the conflict he has with his hometown, Lanciano. Driven by a great desire for emancipation, he decides not to give up and to interview those who have remained in the province and continue to fight just like him.

Sign Space

Sign Space follows the installation of an art exhibition. From the building of false walls up to the moment the exhibition opens its doors to the public, the film tracks the many considerations, both formal and procedural, that go into staging an art show.

Mère-Bi

Mère-Bi is a 2008 documentary film about Annette Mbaye d'Erneville by her son, director Ousmane William Mbaye. The first Senegalese female journalist, she was deeply involved in the development of her country. Both an activist and a non-conformist, she fought for the emancipation of women from the beginning.

The Kalash of the Hindu Kush

In the remote valleys of the Hindu Kush live the Kalash people, the smallest ethnic minority in Pakistan. With a distinct culture and polytheistic religion, they are said to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s troops. But modern life is reaching their valleys and their culture and way of live is under threat.

Mašinka

Documentary film about one of the last forest railways in Remetské Hámre, which transports workers and carries wood.