Documentary Movies

Unforgivable

The latest documentary from Salvadoran director Marlén Viñayo (CACHADA: THE OPPORTUNITY) profiles Geovanny, a ruthless hitman for the 18th Street gang, as he serves his sentence in an isolation cell in El Salvador. But in prison, Geovanny is guilty not only of his crimes but of an unforgivable sin under god and gang: being gay. A powerful follow-up to Viñayo's award-winning 2019 feature CACHADA: THE OPPORTUNITY, this astonishing short film shows an aspect of gang life that is seldom seen.

One Take

Members of Thai girl group BNK48 share the ups and downs of preparing for the 6th Single Senbatsu General Election.

Dino Birds

Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today's only living dinosaurs.

Der Darß - Küste der Kraniche

Hans Goetze is not just the mayor of the picturesque coast village Ahrenshoop, he is also a famous painter. His portraits of people and landscapes sell to tourists all over the world. But the most common object of his paintings are cranes, who have a protected living place on the island of Darss. Every fall, tens of thousands of these large and majestic birds gather in the shallow waters of the baltic sea to prepare for their migration to the south. The film covers a full year of living on the island of Darss with the cranes coming and going.

Língua - Vidas em Português

Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.

ULTRA

A glimpse into the world of Universitatea Cluj ultras, as they demonstrate their impact on the local football culture.

The Secret Centre

The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this documentary about spies in fact and fiction, produced for British television.

Retrats

After the Civil War, between 20,000 and 30,000 Spaniards went into exile in Mexico. This was the country that welcomed the most exiles, after France.

Krzysiek Kieślowski

If Nobody’s Playing

The beginnings of the band "Bernajs Propaganda" through the daily challenge of living for music are shown along with a depiction of the underground history of the Skopje rock and roll scene, for its authentic urban sensibility and inexhaustible creative energy.

Algo Fayó

Erasmo 80

The 80th birthday of Erasmo Carlos, pioneer of Brazilian rock, in never-before-seen images: the Tijuca gang, Jovem Guarda, international success, Roberto Carlos and his influence on behavior.

Phenomena

A psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe, guided by a filmmaker’s immersive practical experiments that transcend into a deeply hypnotic audio-visual experience of awe and human connection to the natural world.

Genderless

Everything is political, even something as insignificant as a bathroom. The struggle to occupy spaces represents the struggle to reaffirm one's very existence. This is why we explore why the creation of gender-neutral bathrooms in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters is so important in a country that leads in hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community.

Cancer Alley

The untold story of the most contaminated place in America and the people who live there. Running through St. James, Louisiana, there is an 85-mile industrial corridor, commonly known as “Cancer Alley” — home to some of the largest petrochemical plants in the country. The ones who cannot leave are anywhere between 50 to 500 times more likely to get cancer than the average American.

Stolen House

"Stolen House" is a documentary short film that follows the migration story of Mark, a Russian photographer, and Katya, a Ukrainian artist, to Argentina. Through narrations, staged scenes, and archival material, fragments of their lives, feelings, and motivations are explored.

Keep Smiling!

This is a story about four men looking for missing soldiers. What is dragging 30 year old great friends to long forgotten war fields? To give an answer to this question would be to find the meaning of life. With sincere emotional touch the film is following the way of an unknown soldier back to his family and motherland after more than half a century. The events of the film take place at the same time as the second war in Iraq. The film is based on a novel „Diggers” by Viktors Duks, nominated for the EPPI Award in 2003.

Osmanen Germania OGBC - Rockers oder Boxclub?

They are considered the fastest growing rocker-like association in Germany. According to own data the "Ottoman Germania" already have more than 2000 members.They are happy to expose their brutal and arbitrary ideals. They attract a lot of young immigrant men. They have close relations with the AK parti in Turkey. They chant; son kan damlasına, to the last drop of blood.

I Married Adventure

A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, "I Married Adventure" stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name. Osa portrays herself in studio-produced scenes which bridge the transition between actual documentary footage segments as the film recounts the Johnson's nine world expeditions to Africa, Borneo, and the South Seas. Jim Bannon, a Hollywod stuntman who lent his voice to many western's including Red Ryder, Don Clark, and Albert Duffy narrate this adventure classic that compiles the very best images from the Johnsons' original feature films.

The Look of Silence

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.