Documentary Movies

Kainai

On the Kainai (Blood) First Nations Reserve, near Cardston, Alberta, a hopeful new development in Indigenous enterprise. Once rulers of the western plains, the Bloods live on a 1 300-square-kilometer reserve. Many have lacked gainful employment and now pin their hopes on a pre-fab factory they have built. Will the production line and work and wages fit into their cultural pattern of life? The film shows how it is working and what the owners themselves say about their venture.

The Mermaids

A video essay by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on the standardization of beauty through mass media.

Snuggle

Snuggle explores different generations' views on aging and death through the experiences of three families struggling with elderly caretaking and imminent loss. Commissioned by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the moving documentary was shot over two years, bearing witness to the difficult journeys and decisions of life and death confronted by ordinary people. The Lees face multiple tragedies in a short period of time as the patriarch, himself tormented with illness, deals with the grief of losing his daughter and wife. His son hopes that he will soon find peace in heaven. The Chans live in an elderly home and rely on their unmarried middle-aged daughter who has long carried the financial and emotional pressure of caring for them. Lam Siu Ming duly carries out filial responsibilities for the only family he has left, the cancer-stricken mentally disabled mother who abandoned him as a child.

Ouroboros

This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film's central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.

I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore

In Taipei’s dreamscape, Tao’s incomprehensible love for Shin drives her to create painful memories. Meanwhile, Melih, burdened with self-blame, longs to connect with the perpetually drunk Ping.

Temperatura wrzenia

A report on the Polish all-female expedition to the Karakoram led by Wanda Rutkiewicz.

Kapten Seger

Caroline Seger has hung up her shoes after an unparalleled career as one of the greatest female soccer players ever, both on and off the field. In this documentary, we get to follow the national team captain at the end of the last season, with retrospectives on his entire career. A unique career in Swedish and international football through her leadership and fight for equality in the sport.

Eye Opener

Jane Elliott, an internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed Exercise in Glasgow, Scotland with thirty-five volunteers from across the United Kingdom. Many of the blue-eyed participants were shocked at their own reactions to what for many of them was the new experience of being powerless. Many of the brown-eyed participants were shocked at how easy they found it to go along with what was happening even though they knew it was wrong. They all have a better understanding of the systematic nature of racism as well as the awareness of how their actions or inaction can reinforce and perpetuate it. Eye Opener shows this exercise is as relevant and necessary in the UK today as it was in Riceville, Iowa in 1968.

Das Spiel ihres Lebens

Pulsão

Pulsão addresses how political culture in Brazil has changed in the last seven years as a result of a series of political and technological events that exposed the dark side of the use of social media.

Monogamia

Can intimacy exhaustion in a monogamous marriage be avoided? Love is no longer present in my parent’s relationship. Echoing my own marriage, the question arises if there is a way to keep the spark.

Neseyka: The Youngest Daughter

The meeting of a giant inhabitant of the free nature of the Arctic with people is always a bright, unusual event. Once, walrus walrus Neseyka fell ill and was forced to come to people for help. An old Indian proverb and Russian fairy tales say the same thing: if you save an animal from death, it will never forget it.

HyperNormalisation

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…

SportsCentury Greatest Athletes: Wayne Gretzky

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Observational documentary recording everyday life in Finland in 1983.

Parrot

Balanced on a perch, the parrot is encouraged to imitate the sounds of human speech.

Transitory

Diego Tejerina, a prisoner with temporary releases, uses his knowledge of sociology to reflect on freedom and confinement.

Vietnam, Fête du Têt, le Passé Retrouvé

Unofficial: JUDO

A documentary about the relationships built within a sport: the perspective of "we all are different", together with the importance and understanding of friendship, win, loss, pain, talent.

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