Documentary Movies

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915: Hunting Hispanics

On August 3, 2019 a racist murderer, hating Mexican people, committed the ultimate hate crime. 915: HUNTING HISPANICS is a full length feature film that closely examines the El Paso Walmart mass shooting. It provides a complete analysis of what happened that day, as well as an exploration of many overlooked angles.

Twin Sisters

In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended up in an orphanage and were put up for adoption, at which time the authorities apparently decided that it was a good idea to separate them, and to keep silent about the fact that they were twins. Twin Sisters tells their story from the perspective of both sets of adoptive parents: one from Sacramento, California, the other from a tiny village in picturesque Norway. Through a series of coincidences that they later attribute to fate, the parents meet each other during the adoption procedure in China and launch an investigation that reveals the little girls are sisters.

Cimarrón

An observational documentary short film about the spirit of the forest: the Iberian wolf.

Saigon, Kosovo

An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity. Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.

Ramba Zamba

Ramba Zamba: a theater with handicapped and non-handicapped people/actresses and actors, which has been living and working on inclusive integrative togetherness impressively every day for thirty years now. The film accompanies the mentally and physically impaired actresses and actors for six months through the theatrical production of the play GOLEM, from the beginning of rehearsals to the premiere. In doing so, the film is also partly influenced by the portrayed persons themselves, quasi inclusively co-determined, by them capturing their own view and perception, their view of reality itself on film.

300 Souls

Daily life in a Marseille overnight shelter. Caught between last-resort solutions and feeling trapped, three hundred men try to thwart urgency.

Mona Lisa identity

All the different identities of La Gioconda portrait are finally explained in a new compelling docufiction. Four women, four leads that we will follow to shed light on the real name of the figure that inspired Leonardo da Vinci. A journey through the Renaissance of Italy that will touch the four ladies’ hometowns: Florence, Milan, Urbino and finally Basilicata, the never-seen site of the Monalisa’s burial. With the support of historians and researchers, we will analize exclusive materials and recent excavations to sketch the features of the figure who still fascinates millions of people.

The Spirits Diary

Mario Haber was a sound engineer and a dedicated brandy maker. For over a decade, he had been recording colorful conversations and sounds in his house and around the alcohol fermenter. The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of his audio recordings.

The James Dean Story

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.

Comunismo Futuro

The film Comunismo Futuro is a vertiginous journey through the twentieth century, whose trajectory is retraced twice: first from the point of view of the Russian Revolution of 1917; then again through the twenty-first century spiral of folly.

Adventure Lovers

They made the first films about the king of animals, the pygmies of the Ituri forest, the first aerial photographs of Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro... "Lovers of Adventure" recounts the incredible lives of Martin and Osa Johnson, who, in the first half of the 20th century, opened millions of Americans to the unknown.

Scars

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

Visual Acoustics

Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.

Noticiero Cultural Deportivo Prisma

News from Peru.

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.

Mercado

Mercado portrays the daily routine of the workers at the Santa Fe Fruit and Vegetable Market, a twenty-two thousand square meter property with great employment impact in the area. A visual journey from hard work in the field to sale in the market.

Housing Problems

The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.

Mud Road

In South Ethiopia, an ambulance driver has to bring a young lady to the hospital for delivery, but the nearest one is 300 km far from the village. It’s a long journey along a road full of mud.

The Flight of the Stork

Soumaya grew up in Barcelona, and the emotional distance between her and her mother, who is originally from Algeria, often feels vast. That tension is evident in their somewhat prickly conversation about praying and Ramadan. Things shift, however, when Soumaya decides to visit her grandmother in Algeria.