Documentary Movies

Real Boy

REAL BOY is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find his voice-as a musician, a friend, a son, and a man. As he navigates the ups and downs of young adulthood, Bennett works to gain the love and support of his mother, who has deep misgivings about her child's transition. Along the way, he forges a powerful friendship with his idol, Joe Stevens, a celebrated transgender musician with his own demons to fight.

Dom/Home

Reflection on the relationship between man and nature, told by world-famous polar explorers and ski mountaineers.

Cathair Chorcaí

A portrait of the history and people of the city of Cork, Ireland.

The Soviet Garden

A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.

Uzelai

Short film about Basque artist Jose Mari Uzelai.

The Magic Life of V

Haunted by childhood traumas, Veera is trying to become more independent through live-action role-playing. As she guides herself and her mentally challenged brother through worlds of multiple roles and identities, witches and wizards, she finds the courage to face the demons of her own past and her abusive father’s legacy.

La emperatriz de México. Retrato de una cosmopolita: Marianne Frenk Westheim

Documentary portrait of one of the last survivors of the German-Jewish exile in Mexico: Marianne Frenk-Westheim. Translator, writer and great connoisseur of art, she lived in three centuries and in two very distant cultures: her first 32 years in Germany and more than 70 years in Mexico, her second homeland.

Queen Nanny

Queen Nanny documents the struggle for freedom by the Jamaican Maroons, led by the indomitable 18th century military genius, Nanny of the Maroons.

Beautiful Noise

BEAUTIFUL NOISE is an in-depth exploration of a music movement in the late twentieth century, a fascinating period when some innovative musicians mixed guitar noise into conventional pop song structures while maintaining a philosophy of letting the music speak for itself. Although many of the people interviewed are notoriously press shy they have opened up about their music and experiences from over 20 years ago, how they defied the rules and became sonic innovators that have inspired so many.

XXX

I thought it would be a symbolic, cathartic experience. Initially, it was a response to the violence of certain representations. I thought that perhaps, by confronting them with an inverted image of violence, we would obtain something akin to a repaired image. It's a film-laboratory, somewhere between staged scenes and documentary, that attempts to grasp where violence goes in the reserves of our consciousness.

Unfinished Diary

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.

Brasília: Planejamento Urbano

The planning of the city, linking its architecture to its topography and the reasons that allow it to have normal and continuous traffic, eliminating the circulation problems of all major cities. Details of the buildings destined for the Government, the residences and the commerce. (Brazilian Cinematheque)

Flamenco Flamenco

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.

FlorCaveira

Part of the "I Love My Label" documental project dedicated to independent music labels from Portugal.

Clouds

An open invitation to look at the sky.

The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn

“A Song Reborn” reveals the extraordinary 1994 reunion of Paul, George and Ringo, 24 years after The Beatles parted ways. A true collaboration became possible when Yoko Ono handed them an unfinished John Lennon composition. Crafted from never-before-seen studio footage, this short film captures the three Beatles rediscovering their bond as they shape John’s song into the GRAMMY-winning “Free As A Bird.”

Caquinhos

In-touch

Debut short films of Belarusian documentary filmmakers, united by the topic of a social role of internet in modern life.

Planeta Petrila

In Petrila, a Romanian mining town, an ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive.

Val

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.