Documentary Movies

Football Rwanda, Fields of Memories

More than 15 years after leaving the country, Eugène Murangwa, the former goalkeeper of the most popular club in Rwanda and national team, returns to his native land to pass on the values of a sport which saved him in 1994 to the young people of an association that he created with former football players. Illustrated with previously unseen archives, the film throws a new light on the history of Rwanda through football, a sport which served the “civilizing” mission of the colonizer, allowed the Hutu Power to mobilize the youth and helped the reconstruction of the country after the genocide.

Madre

Madre brings a poetic and powerful portrait of the story of a Venezuelan refugee mother living in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Stories converge in a journey marked by sorrow and achievement, homelessness and refuge. The film dives into the nostalgia of the Venezuela that inhabits Ambar’s memories, but which is not the same Venezuela that Brazil knows.

Rahan rata

A comedic information film from the Ministry of Finance. A barrage of questions from a reporter led by Lasse Pöysti reveals where inflation is lurking.

ABC Nunca Más

The largest childhood tragedy in the history of Mexico, not only marked the lives of 49 families who lost their sons in the fire at the ABC child care, but that of an entire nation. Following the incident, parents of children killed and injured in the fire seek to rebuild their lives while seeking justice.

The Great Buster: A Celebration

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.

Residence

This is the story of Dona Virginia, an elderly woman who awaits the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place, her past and her memories.

Chameleon Soho

From dawn till dusk in the bohemian heart of London’s West End. This 1979 portrait of the people and places of Soho catches the neighbourhood towards the end of an era. There's some great footage inside an Italian delicatessen and of assorted street characters. It's a fascinating glimpse into this walled garden of cosmopolitan life on the cusp of the gentrification and commercial interests that have since broken its borders.

Rough Diamond

Climber Philippe Ribière was born in Martinique. Abandoned and subsequently adopted by a large family in France, Ribière underwent numerous surgeries to improve the functionality of his limbs. Yet today, he is the first sponsored climber with a disability, an elite athlete, and the founder of the "Handi-Grimpe" association. Returning to Martinique with the ambition of climbing the famous Diamond Rock—an uninhabited island located two kilometers off the coast, whose shape inspired its name—holds deep symbolic significance for him.

Black Angels

Kino/Kritik. Über die Wörter, den Sinn und das Geld von Filmen

Brother Forever

A documentary about the phenomenon of the Brother duology and its place in the country's cultural code. Directors Anna and Grigory Selyanov explore Balabanov's legacy, rare archives, and routes from Moscow to New York to understand how these films united several generations of Russians.

The Forest Maker

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and challenges ideas of conventional reforestation with his simple yet effective method.

Ship

Ship is an overnight cruise on the occasion of a birthday celebration of Algirdas Stravinskas, the star of Lithuanian choreography in the former Soviet Union, culminating in a dance performance by a young contemporary dance troupe. On the cruise, the universal urge for beauty and creativity unites those who have already become history and those who are yet to make it.

Syrialism

A documentary that explores the complex feelings of survivor's guilt felt by an enigmatic Syrian man living in Norway.

The Gleaners and I

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

Public Bodies

An essay on prostitution constructed in two layers: four interviews and the interventions of four contemporary dance choreographers, who explore its formal dimension through movement.

Exemplary Behaviour

Audrius Mickevičius puts the horribly disfigured face of his murdered brother at the start of his film. It is almost a meditation about the question whether a final act like murder can be atoned for in a temporal order – and whether the passing of time allows the victim’s family to forgive. Mickevičius uses the example of two lifers (one of them gets married and wants to have children, the other pours his whole passion into an idea of craftsmanship) and a philosopher with prison experience to make that strange state of suspended life comprehensible.

Force Majeure

The film follows the Norwegian rock band Kråkesølv while finishing their sixth album in 10 years. In a series of flashbacks from their earlier days, we see an uncompromising band that revolutionized Norwegian rock with lyrics in their mother tongue.

Punx

A documentary following Norwegian punk, new wave, post punk and hardcore music from 1977 to 2015.

The Magino Village Story: Pass

This rural documentary features poet Jin Makabe. Thoughts about agriculture, memories, landscapes.