1. Chasing the dragon (Chasser les dragons)
Unexpected shelter made of prefabs in the heart of a burning city, the supervised drug consumption facility is open every day of the year. Cause some things know neither relief, nor rest, nor death. A place like no other where to come back, again and again, because here, they would make you feel, at last, you’re someone.
2. James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre (James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre)
A movie about James Tissot , a French painter and portraitist
4. Our American Family
Addiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. Our American Family provides an honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
5. Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence)
Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
6. Mom and Me
Mom and Me is a personal and intimate documentary about a young filmmaker coming of age in extraordinary circumstances. It follows the complicated relationship between director Lena Macdonald and her mother, who was once a filmmaker herself, but ended up homeless, crack-addicted and on the streets. For ten years Lena filmed in the cold, hard streets of Toronto’s inner city and her story is raw, honest and unforgettable. Mom and Me is about addiction, prostitution and despair but it is also a story about family, the power of hope and the tenacity of love.
7. Québec en silence (Québec en silence)
(Québec en silence)
8. Národní umělec Josef Lada (Národní umělec Josef Lada)
(Národní umělec Josef Lada)
9. Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského (Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského)
(Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského)
10. Corno (Corno)
A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. Unprovoked: A Creative Process
Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
12. Carving Thy Faith (Pag-ukit sa Paniniwala)
A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many forms of rituals and iconographies, exposing wood as raw material that undergoes production processes before becoming a spiritual object of devotion. - A sculpture believed to have been imported in town during Spanish colonial conquest, locally known as Mahal na Señor Sepulcro, is celebrating its 500 years. Meanwhile, composed of non-actors, Senakulo re-enacts the sufferings and death of Jesus. As the local community yearly unites to commemorate the Passion of Christ, a laborious journey unfolds following local craftsmen in transforming blocks of wood into a larger than life Jesus crucified on a 12-ft cross.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
13. Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything
Ronnie O’Sullivan hasn’t had the most harmonious relationship with the media over the years, but his attempt to win the Snooker World Championship for a record 7th time in 2021 apparently proved to good an opportunity to pass up.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
14. Prinzessinnenbad
A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. The trio have known each other since Kindergarten and have plenty in common. The three 15-year-olds are the best of friends; they are spending the summer at Prinzenbad, a large open-air swimming pool at the heart of the district where they live. They're feeling pretty grown up, and are convinced they've now left their childhood behind.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
15. Jag vill inte leva detta livet
Swedish documentary from the Gothenburg area about young drug abusers.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. Šmejdi (Šmejdi)
(Šmejdi)
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
17. Don't Get High on Your Own Supply
This documentary by Leo Regan follows the life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he becomes part of the hard drug scene through researching it for his book . It shows Lanre as he becomes a character in his own book through his heroin addiction.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
18. Cold Turkey
Leo Regan follows his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola, as he tries to go cold turkey from heroin in his council flat and without medication.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. Muž zbavený tíže (Muž zbavený tíže)
(Muž zbavený tíže)
20. Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick , who wrote over over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of mind-bending sci-fi, exploring themes of authority, drugs, theology, mental illness and much more.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
