1. Oficios (Oficios)
(Oficios)
2. Travessias (Travessias)
A love letter that unites Brazil and Cuba. In the film Travessias, the director goes on a long journey seeking to understand the feelings and transformations of a person who is close to her. On this path of doubts and concerns, she meets Justin, a trans man who will help her on this journey. With a poetic and self-referential look, the director invites us to rethink our own prejudices and limits in relation to the others.
3. The Stone Speakers
In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive—deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations, The Stone Speakers interrogates a nation’s contradictory memories. Made with subtlety and tactful distance, director Igor Drljaca’s film reveals the traumatic consequences of being a country that is stuck in a postwar identity crisis.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. 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.
5. Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
6. Crazy Creatures
Animals shock us with the most bizarre appearances - some even look like they've been dressing up. But the weird and wonderful shapes and colours of nature are vital to the animals' lives. Sometimes they're disguised to help blend in, other times they are designed to stand out and show off. But whether it's a monkey in make-up or a salamander's toxic stripes.
7. Full Circle
Faced with a traumatic injury that renders you permanently disabled; how would you reinvent yourself? Full Circle tells the story of Trevor Kennison and Barry Corbet’s shared resiliency and refusal to let their passion for life be limited by Spinal Cord Injury. It is an unblinking examination of the challenges of Spinal Cord Injury, and a celebration of the growth that such tragedy can catalyze.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
8. Le Business du bonheur (Le Business du bonheur)
(Le Business du bonheur)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
9. The Leopard Rocks
The documentary “The Leopard Rocks” accompanies Neelam, a female leopard, as she fights for the lives of her offspring, and provides a fascinating insight into the lives and adventures of one of the world's most interesting big cat species in a unique, unusual environment.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
10. Yo sentí su amor (Yo sentí su amor)
(Yo sentí su amor)
11. Making Mind My Mind
Shortlisted for the 92th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Mind My Mind has come a very long way. The first idea originates from 2009, and production started back in 2013. This making-of includes an in-depth interview with writer/director Floor Adams about the ideas behind the film, early artwork, shot progressions, behind-the-scenes footage of voice actors and foley recordings, and a selection of Floor's personal videos of key moments that happened during the production.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
12. A Motorcycle Saved My Life
The open road presents a point of departure for director lori lozinski to process deep-seated grief. Revisiting the formative experiences that drove her ambition, lozinski examines the influence of her parents in the present light of day.
13. Legasthenie - Wir dachten immer, du bist dumm (Legasthenie - Wir dachten immer, du bist dumm)
(Legasthenie - Wir dachten immer, du bist dumm)
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
14. The Alps from Above: Symphony of Summits (Die Alpen - Unsere Berge von oben)
The most important mountain range in Europe is more than a holiday destination for sports and relaxation. The Alps are not just an unpredictable force of nature against which humans have to assert themselves again and again, or an area steeped in history, but also a landscape that enchants. The documentary takes a foray through the history and geography of the Alps.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
15. Ganges
A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile Bengal delta, exploring the natural and spiritual worlds of this sacred river.
16. Nous, les Gitans (Nous, les Gitans)
Alberto Spadolini, filmmaker and choreographer, dances to traditional Andalusian music. He pays tribute to the gypsy culture.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. The Elephant Queen
Join Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
18. A Month With the Girls (Un mois chez les filles)
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
19. Land of the Taj Mahal
A brief but colorful travelogue of India's biggest cities following the partition of the country in 1947 at the end of the British Raj.
20. The Future of Nuclear Energy (Zukunft der Atomenergie)
Nuclear energy: a clean energy for the future or a risk for humanity? As the European Union has classed nuclear as a green energy, France is building new power plants whilst Germany is decommissioning them. An in depth look at the future of atomic energy in the coming decades.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
