1. Back from Madness: The Struggle for Sanity
In part of the HBO's America Undercover series, this documentary provides an insider's view of mental illness, and the use of psychotropic drugs to alleviate some of its symptoms. Tracks the odyssey of four psychiatric patients, beginning with their arrival at Massachusetts General Hospital and the affiliated Lindemann Center, revealing their personal struggles and inner strength as they enter the world of psychiatric treatment to seek relief from insanity.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Dicks That I Like
Visual artist Daniela Torres creates colorful ceramic dick sculptures inspired by the men who have been dicks to her. In this intimate artist portrait, Daniela shares her struggles, anger and catharsis as she creates a sculpture modelled after a series of unsolicited dick pics. She also shares her process with a diverse group of women who come together in one of her popular Berlin-based dick sculpting workshops. It's a hands-on approach to healing trauma that yields beautiful results.
3. Insides and Outsides (Insides and Outsides)
Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environment of escalating violence, Arbab explores what it is like being a Muslim in India. The film ebbs and flows between looking outside, where a constant stream of hate erupts, and inside, where Arbab's parents renegotiate their place in the country with changing times.
4. Le Grand Méliès (Le Grand Méliès)
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
5. Do You Like This Painting? (Da li Vam se sviđa ova slika?)
On September 19, 2022, several young artists went to the streets of the city of Belgrade in order to find out what their fellow citizens had to say about an abstract painting. During the process, the idea of recording the survey itself was born.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
6. Positive
Twenty-two year old Neuroscience student Wendy is in the midst of a transition from pre-med to performance when she is thrown into quarantine with her 17 year-old sister, April. Suddenly sharing a full-sized bed, the sisters struggle to make peace with their newfound living quarters. But, while editing April’s college essays, Wendy discovers her purpose–to help April find hers. Over fourteen days, the girls grow from acquaintances to artistic allies as they realize their unstoppable potential to pursue their passion. Based on a true story, this film was shot in Houston with an entirely Texan cast & crew. Creator Abby Tozer donated $2500 to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell young performing artists' scholarship.
7. Herd: Inuit Voices on Caribou
Through Inuit voices, HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou tells the story of the social, emotional, and cultural disruptions from ecological change by putting an essential human face to the caribou declines - including a 99% decline of the once-massive George River Caribou Herd. The film was developed over four years of collaboration between filmmakers and 11 Inuit communities across Labrador. It cinematically explores an array of lived experiences, from youth to Elders and hunters to cooks, to ensure that the stories of those living on the frontlines of this ecological crisis are HERD. It is a portrait of the deep connections that exist between humans and non-humans, a glimpse of heartbreaking loss felt by entire communities, and a lasting testament of cultural resilience in the context of ecological uncertainty.
8. The Life and Legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
This short documentary tells the story of the life and legacy of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, an Omaha woman who became the first Native American physician.
9. Director Disqualified (監督失格)
In 1997, Hirano Katsuyuki, a married, middle-aged AV director, and his 26-year-old actress and lover, Hayashi Yumika, set out to cycle from Tokyo to Hokkaido. Two video versions of their trip already exist, the intimate documentary Yumika and its gonzo porno alter ego 41-Day Adultery Bicycle Tour. Hirano’s Kantoku Shikkaku reframes this ambiguous relationship in light of Yumika’s death in 2005.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. Mylène Farmer, la star secrète (Mylène Farmer, la star secrète)
(Mylène Farmer, la star secrète)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. Jackie Chan: Building an Icon (Jackie Chan - Humour, gloire et kung-fu)
Jackie Chan is a true icon of Asian and Chinese culture. Over a 45-year-long career, he has carved a niche for himself as an actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter, but also singer and formidable businessman. After starring in almost 200 films, Jackie Chan has reconciled fans of genre film and Hollywood blockbusters, whilst bridging the gap between Asian and Western cinema. Through film excerpts, archive footage and images, and an offbeat approach inspired by the visual codes of the golden age of kung fu films, this documentary will take a look back at the creation of a popular hero who has come to be an icon for China, and for the entire Asian continent.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
12. Yamekraw
In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a dive two-times him. He returns to his home and wife's arms.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. RY X - Live From Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, in Brazil for Cercle
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park is a graceful composition of shapes of land and water, located in the "majestic and sensual world of Northern Brazil" - as RY X musingly expresses it. The 155 thousand hectares is unique for its white sand dunes and topaz lagoons that the wind reshapes endlessly.
It has an average vote of 9.2 on TMDB.
14. Rock 'n Roll Junkie
Rock 'n Roll Junkie is a documentary about the extraordinary life of dutch rock 'n roll myth and personification of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll Herman Brood.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
15. Secrets of the Parthenon
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. Die Vampirprinzessin (Die Vampirprinzessin)
Introduces the theory of the Viennese media scholar Rainer Maria Köppl that Bram Stoker was indirectly inspired by the figure of Princess Eleonore zu Schwarzenberg.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
17. Tour Eerie Erie
A short collection of local legends and ghost stories about Erie, Pennsylvania, and its surrounding areas. Produced by and aired on WQLN Channel 54 Erie.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
18. Gangbé! (Gangbé!)
The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.
19. JFK Remembered: 50 Years Later
A look back at the 1000 days of the John F. Kennedy presidency.
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
20. Women's Bodies (Il corpo delle donne)
The representation of women in contemporary Italian media
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.