Poetic Documentary Movies

Through an unsent letter, the author travels through time and recalls moments when love affected him intensely. Evocative images explore how pain and...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

Ibuka follows Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple, at the very beginning of the civil war and the massacres that swept through Rwanda in 1994....

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

A day in a retirement home.

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place...

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political...

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

A man's virginity causes the stock market to collapse and doom the world.

Filmed during lockdown 2020, ‘de Luz/Of Light’ explores fleeting perceptions and cyclic rituals of Portuguese coastal landscapes,...

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

The rise and fall of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Vukotić - the only Yugoslav Oscar-winner and one of the founding members of the Zagreb...