Documentary Movies

Querido Fotogramas

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks to a mosaic of voices represented by people who make films, those who write them and those who consume them. The documentary pays tribute to the readers of “Fotogramas” helped by the leading figures of Spanish cinema, who will read to the camera the most representative letters received at its offices in the history of the magazine.

21 Year Old Seung Ha's Secret Diary

A sexual film that revealed the activities of Seungha, who made her debut as an adult film actress after working as an idol singer.

The Farmer

Eight years ago director Daan Jongbloed stumbled upon an abandoned farm, which surprisingly was inhabited by 97-year-old farmer Peer. The peacefulness and sobriety in which Peer lives fascinated Daan tremendously. His view of Peer’s rural lifestyle is rather idyllic, but to Peer this is reality. Why does he live the way he does? Who is Peer and what’s troubling him? In an attempt to understand Peer and his perception of life Daan has followed him on and off for the past eight years. Peer cautiously reveals a glimpse of his lonely life and disturbing past.

Kristos, The Last Child

Of the thirty inhabitants of Arki, a windswept island in Greece’ Dodecanese, Kristos is the last remaining child and the only student of the small elementary school. To finish compulsory education, he needs to leave Arki and move to a larger island. However, his family cannot afford this and his father wants him to become a shepherd like his older brothers. The child’s teacher, Maria, cannot accept this situation and is determined to find a solution to further his education. Will Kristos stay on the island or will he leave Arki to continue his education on the other side of the sea?

Dokumentation einer Unzweckmäßigkeit

This film follows a climbing tour in the Alps, one of the most difficult tours in the world, in a stark and detailed manner.

Puñeta

Invites us to reflect on language, violence against women, human pain, and the possibilities of expression in colonial and contemporary Puerto Rico.

Cinema 500 km

From the only country in the world with no cinema theaters, a movie young fan crosses borders for the first time ever so he can watch a movie in a cinema for the first time.

Memòria Zero

Heat

From the mind of Canadian ripper, Antosh Cimoszko (who brought us Spots) comes yet another montage of quick feet and tight VX1000 filming titled Heat, filmed in the the rugged terrain that is NYC featuring Dylan Fulford and Will Blakley. Antosh and his crew are arguably some of the most productive dudes up in Canada right now and have been hitting the streets like crazy.

Malanka's Wedding

A documentary drama about Maria Kutyr, a resident of Chapayivka (Zolotonosha district, Cherkasy region), whose life reflected the fate of Ukrainian women from the World War II generation.

How Do You Do

About prostitution in late USSR. Who are they? Why are they doing it? Are they ashamed? What do foreigners feel and want from it?

No Jungle!

Evacuation Romance

Everyone knows that Perm is a theater and ballet city. Here is the famous opera and ballet theater, the famous ballet school, whose graduates dance at the best stages of the world, and grateful, understanding and appreciating art public. But, probably, not everyone knows that all this began in the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, when the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) theater and the Vaganovo Ballet School were already evacuated from Molotov, which was already practically blocked by the fascists of Leningrad, to the city of Molotov (then Perm was called). Then this evacuation novel, which continues to this day, began

Eyes

A short documented visit to the ophthalmologist by Anhar Salem

Nuevas Raíces

After fleeing the war in Ukraine, several families rebuild their lives in a village in Seville. Through different conversations and introducing us to their day-to-day, Nuevas raíces shows their process of adaptation, resilience and rooting in a land that, without seeking it, also begins to be home.

The Farewell

In his graduation documentary for the Cuban film school EICTV, Alejandro Alonso Estrella portrays an elderly former miner still living on the premises of the mine where he spent his entire working life.

Fuel for Life

Margit has left her life, career and apartment in a big city and moved to a small island Hiiumaa to grow nettle. She believes there's a power in this plant that we don’t know how to fully use yet. Having researched the nettle and its qualities in various laboratories, she is sure that it’s possible to put Estonia on the world map with the plant that many consider to be just useless weed. But are only faith and enthusiasm enough to break through as an entrepreneur?

The Eye Was in the Tomb and Stared at Daney

Through a series of text, clips, and sounds popping up on a simulated computer screen, French researcher and filmmaker Chloé Galibert-Laîné investigates the noise that terrified Daney, as well as those that have scared her; the result proving its success by, spooking us in turn.

Sadan Hanım

Chubai. Speaking Again

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representative of Lviv underground culture of late 60s early 70s.