1. Beyond the mall (Más allá del mall)
Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. The Marvellous Spiral (La espiral maravillosa)
Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
3. Corazón de padre (Corazón de padre)
Who is Joseph of Nazareth ? We get into a trip around the world to find out if this mysterious man is still more active than ever. Through emblematic places on the five continents, through sanctuaries, celebrations in the honor of this quiet carpenter, we will listen powerful testimonies of people whose life changed dramatically thanks to Saint Joseph.
It has an average vote of 7.833 on TMDB.
4. Flora (Flora)
A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-trafficking on film—its tendency both to romanticize and to obscure. To screen is both to project and to conceal.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Show Me the Father
Everyone has a unique father story. Whether positive or painful, it's always personal and can deeply affect the core of our identity and direction of our lives. Providing a fresh perspective on the roles of fathers in today’s society, Show Me the Father invites you to think differently about how you view your earthly father, and how you personally relate to God.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. La quemada (La quemada)
12 years later, a failed school short film is resignified to share the multiple experiences that exist in the creation of a film.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
7. The Pink Room
After selling herself at fourteen to a brothel inside her home town of Svay Pak, Mien takes an undesired path all over Cambodia for the remainder of her teenage life. At twenty, her path crosses with a group of people fighting to make a difference, bringing her long and onerous journey back to face where it all began. The Pink Room is an intertwined story of the heart-rending, epic battle to end sex slavery, from rescue to prevention, and experiencing first hand, the need to change not just individuals, but the communities they come from. Most documentaries on trafficking only bring awareness to the problem. This film bring awareness to the solutions.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. Painting Pain
The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film - a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in self portraits, portraits of dying strangers and paintings of dead models. The paintings, apart from his work, also express a different version of himself. All together contribute to the depiction of man as a "garment of pain".
9. Man with a Movie Camera (Человек с киноаппаратом)
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
It has an average vote of 7.856 on TMDB.
10. Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? (Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ?)
(Agatha Christie contre Hercule Poirot : Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ?)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. Through a Lens Darkly: Grief, Loss and C.S. Lewis
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." CS Lewis - A Grief Observed Loss comes in many forms: The grief over the death of a loved one, the devastation of a physical or mental impairment, the pain of divorce or separation, or the distress of job loss and foreclosure.
12. The Ongoing Conversation
An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.
13. To Home
Conversations between a mother and her son on their way back home from work in the course of a couple of days.
14. The Mexican Football Coaching Guide (El manual del entrenador mexicano)
In this comedic docufiction, Javier is a young man who has always wanted to be a football coach like his idol “El Chelís” , but has never done anything to fulfill his dream. Now, guided by a nosy narrator , he will look for some of the most unorthodox amateur football coaches in Mexico, and for his beloved "Chelís", so that each one can give him lessons until he is fully trained to manage a match and thus become a true "Mexican football coach".
15. On sourira de nous (On sourira de nous)
Four friends tired of protests are thinking about another way to shake up capitalist society. Driven by fiction, they decide to blow up a Brussels shopping center. How to think the attack? What roles do they need to play in order to imagine taking action? Is their friendship reconcilable with such a radical act?
16. Final Warning
Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our information is handled. How is this shaping our lives?
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
17. Operation Silence – The Flükiger Affaire (Operation Silence – Die Affäre Flükiger)
Autumn 1977: the Bernese officer trainee Flükiger is found dead. Who is to blame for his death? The RAF or the Béliers, was it an accident or intentional?
18. Wechselspiel – Wenn Peter Stamm schreibt (Wechselspiel – Wenn Peter Stamm schreibt)
Two documentary filmmakers become the plaything of writer Peter Stamm and subject of the novel whose creation they actually wanted to document.
19. Mother with Us (Madre ven)
In the midst of the COVID-19 post-pandemic, an image of Mary Immaculate traveled 10,800 kilometers over six months through much of the country.
20. Vietnam Story
A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants.
