1. Programming Hope
The inspirational story of a race-car driving software developer whose career suddenly switches gears when his son with autism inspires him to create a video game company that trains and employs adults on the autism spectrum.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. A Story of Dogs (A Story of Dogs)
(A Story of Dogs)
3. Land Without Bread (Las Hurdes)
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
It has an average vote of 7.081 on TMDB.
4. Josef Mánes II. (Josef Mánes II.)
(Josef Mánes II.)
5. 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.
6. One Child Left Behind: The Untold Atlanta Cheating Scandal
In 2009, 1,176 Atlanta teachers were investigated for test cheating; 35 were indicted, 12 went to trial and 11 were found guilty on RICO charges, which are typically reserved for the mafia and drug lords. The guilty, serving 30-year sentences, finally break their silence in this tell-all, controversial film that takes a closer look at the legislations called No Child Left Behind, the politics behind it, and a race and power struggle that spawned one of the most complex scandals in American history.
7. The Water Map (El Mapa del Agua)
The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and the culture of the area, and with its disappearance, the memories of four characters fade away.
8. Twilight (Сумерки)
Filming for this picture took place in Russia over the course of a quarter of a century: in 2000, 2010 and 2022. The film is preceded by an epigraph: “The fate of every person depends on the country where they live, just as the fate of a country depends on its citizens”.
9. Is This Sexual Harassment?
Social experiment hosted by journalist and presenter Ben Zand in which a group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes sexual harassment.
10. 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.
11. Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.
GREAT NORTH: A RUN. A RIVER. A REGION is a documentary film about the Great North Run, a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.
12. Anti-Blackness in Arab Media
A short documentary covering the racism towards black people in Arab societies. Covering race, blackface, colourism and censorship. Featuring Ismail Kushkush, a Sudanese-American journalist and Mariam, an Egyptian-American online blogger.
13. La Ferme des Bertrand (La Ferme des Bertrand)
1972 in Haute-Savoie : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, they were the subject of Gilles Perret's first movie, as they let their farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Nowadays, 25 years later, Gilles Perret take another look at this farm, managed by Hélène who will step down. Through their words, an intimate, social and economic history of the rural world.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
14. 77 Years Back (77 de Ani Înapoi)
Born in 1943 in Bessarabia region, Victor was forced to flee his homeland because of the war. After 77 years, his grandson, Dan, goes back there with his grandpa, Victor, who is recounting memories and seeking information about his birth and his lost relatives, in the country that is now the Republic of Moldova.
15. Nose and Tina
The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.
16. Undercity: Las Vegas
In the new film "Undercity: Las Vegas," urban historian Steve Duncan and director Andrew Wonder head below Sin City to see what lurks beneath the surface of one of America's most bustling cities.
17. On Call (La Permanence)
At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who come here.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
18. Diário da Pandemia (Diário da Pandemia)
(Diário da Pandemia)
19. Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského (Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského)
(Slasti a hořkosti mistra Švabinského)
20. Grandmother of Russian Feminism (Бабушка русского феминизма)
Portrait of a typical European feminist - Olga Lipovskaya , journalist, translator, poet, founder of the women's non-profit organization St. Petersburg Center for Gender Issues , editor of the samizdat magazine Women's Reading.