Documentary Movies

AN OCEAN

The trembling starts in his neck when Markus gets closer to the images that have chased him for 49 years. Now he steers his motor home south, as far away from his past as possible.

Reflexión ciudadana

I Know That Voice

Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.

Revolution from Afar

Sudanese-American poets and musicians engage in performances and a conversation around third culture identity and the revolution in Sudan, from which they have been physically cut off.

Final Account

A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Pallae: Womanhood Story

Choreographer Nam Jeongho's Pallae: Womanhood Story premiered in 1993. Five female dancers spend the night washing clothes and bathing together at the wash place, which is the backdrop stage, for the performance of Pallae in 2021.

Cleoniki

Centenarian Cleoniki lives in the mountains of Evrytania, singing and narrating stories from the past. Kostas and Giorgos, two of her eight children, live with her. Everyone is awaiting the “Sotiros” (Savior’s) traditional feast, when the little village teems with life once again.

Sanne

The accidental finding of a journal from 1956 led to the search for its owner, Susanne Luzian. After her tragic death at twenty-five, somebody logged it in her journal to bring closure to her writings. Through a portrait of the city of Chascomús and interviews with her relatives, "Sanne" explores the importance of personal writing and leaving our mark on the world.

Mothertruckers

Mothertruckers is an insight into the untold story of female truck drivers. Taking place after Brexit and during the UK transport and fuel crisis, it addresses the conflict of being a female lorry driver in a male-dominated profession and explores the romantic idea of finding freedom on the road compared with the hard work and unconventional lifestyle of being a lorry driver.

Trucker Convoy

Documentarian Claire Dooley travels with a convoy of American truckers protesting the emergency orders that shut down America beyond the COVID 19 pandemic. Join the journey from California to DC.

Stelvio

Standing proudly amongst the pantheon of cycling’s most revered mountains, the Stelvio boasts some of the longest and most challenging climbs in bike racing. Relentless switchbacks over impossible gradients beneath extremes of weather. It is on the relentless, technical, and often treacherous slopes of the Stelvio where the most famous and revered battles have decided the fate of the Giro d’Italia’s coveted Maglia Rosa. Jon Shubert explores the history and legends of the Stelvio and the surrounding regions, meeting people whose lives have been shaped by the mountain, and ex-professional Adam Hansen joins him as he makes his own attempt to conquer the coveted mountain.

Constantinopoliad

Created by Sister Sylvester and Nadah El Shazly, Constantinopoliad is a collective reading and audio work. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

Dixit

The film is the confrontation of archival material rescued from the television news of the last military dictatorship in Argentina between the years that go from 1976 to 1983 and the documentary tour to different places in the City of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires , Córdoba, Tucumán and Neuquén, in the so-called Clandestine Detention Centers (CCD).

The Biggest Little Farm

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.

Elsewhere

The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. A journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere, with no commentary added. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest, stones, swamps, mountains, the sea, forests, a South-Sea atoll. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century.

Russian Chelsea

Enthusiasts from Russia take on the challenge of restoring one of the most famous British football clubs, which has fallen into decline. Their journey is marked by cultural differences, organizational hurdles, and skepticism from those around them. Gradually, a personal initiative transforms into something greater — an attempt to prove that a love for the game can transcend borders and bring together people with vastly different perspectives.

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The Last Summer

A monochromatic drama portraying the youth in Moscow. These individuals arrange concerts in deserted structures, host clandestine boxing matches, venture into nature, and remain uncertain about how this summer will conclude amidst the backdrop of war.

Antelopes

'One day, on the Moroccan shores, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes together threw themselves into the sea.' - Marguerite Duras

La orilla de un testigo

The shore of a witness delves into the Buenos Aires waterfront, into memories filled with both tenderness and pain—memories that are incomprehensible without including those who inhabit it, the ones who turn their backs on the city to gaze at the horizon offered by the river.