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Popular Documentary Movies
It's Not Your Fault
A micro-documentary depicting the minor (or not so minor) inconveniences of the designs of everyday things.
I Am Sick
Somewhere in new Thailand a place is forced to dream the old Thailand, caught between both within the heated river a overworked boat starts to desperately sing through the water, air and beyond its last breath that evensurely turns into a mechanical unearthly cheap scream... Aware that no one is in pain only it is sure of its destination as somewhere but green. Somewhere blue. Somewhere, Desperately, Sinking, Sickness.
Motor Boys
Portrait-documentary about William, 12 years old and passionate about mechanics. Throughout this short-film, he brings us into his own world and share his latest creation.
Joshua Tree
During the pandemic, the parents of Joshua had the idea to make a movie about their 14-year-old son with severe autism, and his remarkable progress over the course of six months.
Made in the Cell
Created during Carter and Ben’s ISS (In School Suspension) as a documentation of the day and examination of the isolating effects of it, Made in the Cell is an amateur documentary about shenanigans and boredom.
Thirty-Second Season
Normand lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been living isolated in his Parc-Extension appartment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walks in with his camera.
Glowey
Joey's friends have claimed that he's had a "Glow Up" over the past couple of years. Sam and Brandon go to the streets to find out if it's true.
i-485 (Vanishing Point)
i-485 (Vanishing Point) is a document-zine, and a (desktop) performance performed over several zoom meetings during the pandemic. It investigates a friend’s green card marriage that took place in Las Vegas back in October 2019. Photographic images are arranged, juxtaposed and attached to the i-485 form, a form designated to be used by a person in the United States to apply for lawful permanent resident status.
Heaven and Hell: Creating Cocos Create
Food influencer Coleman Green gives a documentary filmmaker a rare look into the making of Cocos Create.
How to Carry Water
Shoog McDaniel is a fat, queer, and disabled photographer working in and around northern Florida’s vast network of freshwater springs. For over a decade, Shoog’s photographs have transformed the way fat people view themselves and how a fat-phobic society views their bodies. Bringing Shoog’s photography to life, director Sasha Wortzel immerses audiences in a world of fat beauty and liberation, one in which marginalized bodies—including bodies of water—are sacred.
Goodbye Words
In the aftermath of a death, a home is cleaned out; the accumulation of a life is removed in bags and recycle bins. But what becomes of the collection of books? Laura Rantanen’s resoundingly moving and wistful documentary reflects on the end of life, what lingers behind, and the moments when a book breaks through the monotony to open the world around us.
On Parole
Tysir is 15 when released from prison on parole. The only one waiting for him is Yonatan, a social worker from the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority. Yonatan tries to help Tysir to beat the statistics where 3 out of 4 teens return to prison. The deal, which seemed attractive behind bars, becomes a rocky journey in an impossible reality.
RTÉ Investigates: Ireland's Unregulated Psychologists
Barry O'Kelly shows how easy it is for someone to call themselves a psychologist in Ireland today.
Janet Devlin: Young, Female & Addicted
Following former X-Factor star Janet Devlin as she embarks on a journey to understand the impact her alcohol addiction had on those closest to her and how problematic drinking is affecting other young women in Northern Ireland.
What Remains, Genesis
Early 2048, Google, which now owns the bulk of the planet, finds a remedy for death in the form of a digital immortality application. Reserved for a rich and powerful male elite, the programme’s source code is stolen by a group of hackers who make it available to everyone.
Stoker
This first-person film is a letter to my sister that I have never met, as well as an act of reconciliation with my father and the inevitability of death. Three different formats in five decades of life compose a cinematographic mosaic that walks the tightrope of the interplay between the joy of life and the contemplation of existence.
The Actors of Cannes
"The Actors of Cannes" is a documentary film project that showcases a painful part of Kosovo’s history – the spring 1990 school poising of 8400 students by the Serbian government. The mass poisoning of Albanian Kosovars targeted students, teachers, citizens, even young children in preschools.
The Fire Brigade
A group of Malian refugees trained themselves to battle relentless bushfires, protecting their camp, their livelihood, and Mauritanian locals in a short documentary by David Alexander.
Dokunmak Tabu
Lives that pass by without loving themselves or anyone, without meeting pleasures... The experiences we have or have not experienced turn into traumas that manifest themselves in different parts of our body. Is it possible to make peace with traumas?
Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat
The inspiring journey of the most remarkable neighbors whose help you hope you never need - volunteer firefighters - as they encounter heart-breaking challenges and exhilarating triumphs to fulfill a single mission: serving their community.
Mighty Penguins
Meet Special K, Peanut, Charlie, and the rest of The Brentford Penguins, a soccer team with a difference: all the young players have Down’s Syndrome. Mighty Penguins follows Coach Allan, the players, and their families as they prepare to be the guard of honor for a premiership match.
Cinema's First Nasty Women
This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. Cinema’s First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet.
No Stranger at All
Through a collection of incomplete fictions, this film portrays Delhi, India, in times of lockdown and unrest. Priya Sen constructs a kaleidoscope of resilient voices that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria.
Déjà vu
At an exhibition opening, artist Shuang Li receives messages from her virtual doppelgängers.
Seven Days of Autumn
There is a quiet paradise in one of the valleys of the Verkhoyansk Mountains beyond the Arctic Circle. Two people have been living there, away from people, for 30 years. They have almost everything: a house, a lake, dogs and horses, but they have never heard each other's voice.
Mitgefangen
How do prison sentences affect the family members of those who have been incarcerated?
A Maths Problem
On January 2023, the Prime Minister of the UK stated that it should be mandatory for the children of Britain to learn Maths up until the age of 18: with no remorse for how this would damage the future of the nation's creative industry. This film was produced to showcase how unbelievably unnecessary this proclamation would be if it were to be initiated. You're welcome.
Regard Silence
“I love poetry because it makes me feel like my mind expands.” In Regard Silence, that's the very first sentence expressed—in sign language of course. Watching the poems signed by deaf people in this film has a similarly mind-expanding effect. That’s because sign language—the Mexican version in this case—is a very different means of communication than written or spoken language.