Documentary Movies

Khaneh Ma: These Places We Call Home

An examination of cultural identity presenting three generations of Iranians divided across three continents.

Los Constructores

Dynamics and order of the bricklayers carrying out a construction job with cement and bricks.

Vestigios

Documentary about pre-Columbian art whose aesthetic and utilitarian values are intimately related to its myths and history.

Moon Safari

i was home with my kid and, all of a sudden, i get a voice message from raquel — i hadn’t heard from her in a long time — so i listened to it, and she tells me all these things and then she asks, do you remember moon safari? and i’m like, of course, of course i remember moon safari

Touran khanom

Touran Mirhadi (Khomarloo) is the founder of Farhad School, the Children's Book Council, and the Encyclopedia for Young People. She was also actively involved with close to 20 other institutions dealing with child development and education and supported the formation of dozens of others. She is known as the preeminent architect of childhood institution and the mother of modern education in Iran. This film follows the efforts and preoccupations of Ms. Touran Mirhadi in the last four years of her life. It shows how she strove to enrich the field of child education in Iran to the age of 89, always maintaining that peace was to be cultivated at childhood.

To Hold a Mountain

In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

The Last Duel

Two geniuses destined to define an era collided on the same stage. This documentary explores the origins of the rivalry between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi-the moment their confrontation transformed Spanish football and forever redefined greatness in the modern game.

The Mallet

In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.

Rockstar Avilés

Musical documentary dedicated to the first Peruvian guitar, Don Oscar Avilés. It tells the history of the Master through the testimony of family, friends and musicians who had the privilege of being witnesses of part of his 90 years of Peruvian life and 75 of artistic life.

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

An inside look at one of the most anticipated movie sequels ever with James Cameron and cast.

Daughter Of The Baltic Sea

Anastasia is a russian women, born in the ashes of the Soviet Union and in the early days of internet. She lives in France for several years. As her father suddenly died, Anastasia feels the urge to find her place, somewhere, in this new reality.

Murder At Cinema North

A young Holocaust survivor who descends into crime; an Italian-Jewish engineer who wants to see a movie; a German Christian who forgives her husband’s murderer because of her Buddhist faith; and a Jewish woman who carries on an affair with a Nazi and exposes members of the resistance so that she and her children may survive: their fates intersect when two bullets are fired into a queue of people waiting to see “A Man Escaped” at Tel Aviv’s Cinema North in 1957.

Mayor

The documentary Mayor is not only a story about the legendary Branko Pesic, a great builder and visionary, who created the greatest symbols of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, but also about a beloved citizen of the capital, more popular even than Josip Broz Tito.

Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia

An audiovisual study on the utopian territory of the Ukrainian nuclear cities. The film is made of TV and film chronicles of 1970-86, filmed in six Ukrainian nuclear cities. The construction of nuclear cities, the nuclear power plants satellite towns, has started in the USSR in 1950s, in Ukraine in 1970s. The building of these new type cities was accompanied by the hype of the 'eternal' kind of power conquest and recreation of the utopian Lenin's images. The nuclear cities embodied the leading ideological, city planning, ecological, and scientific ambitions. In 1970-80, when the Soviet state was going through the social and ideological crisis, the nuclear cities were the reservations of the Soviet utopia. This is a film about overcoming the contradictions of the final USSR years, based on the image of a utopian nuclear city.

Récits d'une jeunesse exilée - J'ai marché jusqu'à vous

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and proved to be a tough, quixotic opponent to the power structure that wanted to depose him. When he was forcibly removed from office on 11 April 2002, two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace.

Tomorrow

Prisoners of Tales

In Hungary, more than 50 percent of all inmates end up back in prison within 5 years from their release. The tale therapy was launched in 2010 in the Heves County Remand Prison in Eger, and since its inception, more than 100 women have taken part in it. Out of them, only one went back to prison. The 26 minute-long animated documentary, which was the director's graduation film at the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest, introduces the tale therapy through a particular tale and everyday life of two imprisoned mother. We discover the prison life and also the desires and change in these two women through their stories and the tale. Even though they are locked up in prison, viewers can embrace their imagination and created worlds they utilize to get closer to their children's forgiveness.

Willow: Behind the Magic

Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the making of the hit original series.

25 Years of Solitude

Love and death. The 1992-1993 war, which in Abkhazia is called the Patriotic War, ended long ago, but the small sovereign unrecognized state is unable to overcome the military syndrome. I want love so much! In the mountain village of Achandara, Lavrik Akhba, an actor of the Abkhaz drama theater, captain of the second rank of the border fleet and a farmer, is trying to help his friend Tuta find a bride through a dating site. But suddenly he himself, a war hero, a lover of books and women, is covered with love of such strength that it turns out to be more destructive than that terrible last war.