1. A Day at the Cat Cafe
A documentary about a cat cafe for a film class
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. On the Way to School (Sur le chemin de l'école)
These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
3. Primary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occuring.
It has an average vote of 6.338 on TMDB.
4. Passage (Passage)
Gabrielle and Yoan are 18 years old. Even though they both grew up in Temiscamingue, their aspirations are opposite. While Yoan wants to leave the area to break away from his loneliness and explore his homosexuality, Gabrielle is torn at the thought of going over a hundred kilometers away from home to carry on with her studies.
5. A Little Testament (Klein Testament)
A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells us personal memories of his youth and his recent life in the hopes of sketching a clear image of the complex struggle of growing from an innocent child to a weary adult.
6. Le Retour de l'école à l'ancienne (Le Retour de l'école à l'ancienne)
(Le Retour de l'école à l'ancienne)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. We The People 2.0
American citizens who are normally marginalized, forgotten and left to fend against toxic dumps and other violations, come to understand that the only way to survive and save their communities is to challenge the system head-on.
8. Young Wrestlers (Genç Pehlivanlar)
“Let’s see if you gained any weight. 26,3 kilogram. Ahmet, you need to eat more. Double meals.” Like other boys their age, Baran, Ahmet and their classmates wrestle with the desire for recognition, with homesickness and with their target weights. Most of all though, they wrestle with, and against, one another. They are comrades and competitors, united by one and the same dream: Olympic gold! In their wrestling academy in the Turkish province of Amasya, which is well known for this traditional form of combat sport, they undergo strength and endurance training, they learn lifts and throws, they urge each other on and they console one another. Always responding to the boys’ needs, the trainers give the boys tough love, sometimes fatherly, sometimes strict and disciplinary. The film’s intimate documental camera bears close witness to the fine line between friendship and competition, victory and the lesson of how to lose.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
9. A Class Story (L’acqua, l’insegna la sete - Storia di Classe)
In Rome, Gianclaudio Lopez, a retired teacher, sets off in search of his former students who are now approaching their thirties. A Class Story mixes sequences of the video diary that the teenagers had filmed at the time and sequences shot now in which the protagonists, adults, remember this period and speak of their dreams, illusions and regrets.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
10. How to Find Love
Charlie is an awkward teenage boy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend. After his attempt to win her back goes horribly wrong, he and his bumbling friends head to the streets to try and learn how to find love. As their fourth friend films them, the boys hear a variety of perspectives on what love is, and attempt improve their abilities to make women swoon.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. Esmalts (Esmalts)
(Esmalts)
12. Jonas and the Backyard Circus (Jonas e o Circo Sem Lona)
Jonas is 13 years old and his life's dream is to maintain the circus that he created in his backyard. While he faces this challenge, he will live the adventure of growing up.
It has an average vote of 8.1 on TMDB.
13. Transhood
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These kids and their families show us the intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a unique and unprecedented chronicle of growing up transgender in the heartland.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
14. To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages , with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
It has an average vote of 7.254 on TMDB.
15. Marked by Darkness (Poznačení tmou)
Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.
16. Yo sentí su amor (Yo sentí su amor)
(Yo sentí su amor)
17. All This Panic
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
18. Like Water Through Stone (A Falta Que Me Faz)
In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are experiencing the end of their youth. Impossible romances leave marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Each of the friends finds her own particular way to overcome the loneliness and to live within a tangle of uncertainty.
It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.
19. Klassenleben (Klassenleben)
(Klassenleben)
20. The Take
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - the take - has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and a whole system that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
