1. Tonto-tour (Tonto-tour)
A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.
2. Still Lives
'Still Lives' comprises a trilogy of films by Patrick Sheard; Lamenta, Libertas and Exitus, anthologized here in their entirety.
3. La Nuit Nomade (La Nuit Nomade)
At an altitude of 4500 meters, on the highest plateaus of Karnak in the Himalayan région of Ladakh, in a lunar setting where the sky blends with the mineral immensity, director Marianne Chaud filmed the movements of these last nomads. Immersed for months in their community, speaking their language, she placed her camera as close as possible to their voices and gestures, offering viewers encounters of a rare intimacy. As much as the splendor of the landscapes, the extreme harshness of the living conditions or the emotion shared with these nomads, it is this closeness that creates the magic of the film.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. An Inconvenient Truth
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
It has an average vote of 6.972 on TMDB.
5. El Paraíso (El Paraíso)
The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over the course of fifteen years. The tapes are a mixture of the personal and the political – the father was politically engaged in the revolutionary movement that brought Hugo Chávez to power. The family’s life becomes a backdrop for political and economic developments in Venezuela and their impact on the lives of ordinary citizens.
6. Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños (Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños)
(Fragmentum Cinema: Sueños)
7. Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas
A look into the career and impact of "classical liberal" talk show host Dave Rubin
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
8. Paris '50 - Existence imagined (Parigi '50 - L'esistenza immaginata)
An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
9. Eagle Boy
A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.
10. City of Signs (La ciudad de los signos)
Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city in the 1st century, but he does not succeed. However, on one of the tapes a strange phrase, much more recent, is recorded, words that César has already heard somewhere…
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
11. Soundz of Spirit
Award winning documentary by Joslyn Rose Lyons exploring the relationship between spiritual connection and the creative process in hip-hop music.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
12. Pussy Riot: Rage Against Putin (Pussy Riot, rage against Poutine)
Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggle are told through archival footage and interviews with the group’s members.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
13. Visions of Europe
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
It has an average vote of 4.882 on TMDB.
14. Essay on color and its absence (Ensaio sobre a cor e sua ausência)
An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.
15. PSIA PROPAGANDA (PSIA PROPAGANDA)
(PSIA PROPAGANDA)
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
16. Debra Paget, For Example
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for 20th-Century Fox whom they groomed and coached for stardom.
It has an average vote of 3.2 on TMDB.
17. Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina (Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina)
(Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina)
18. Obit
How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
19. Didactica Magna: Against the Grain (Ponorná řeka didaktiky)
The film is an insight into a teacher's soul and a contemplation upon his teaching fate. This portrait of a unique, experimental filmmaker and teacher Martin Čihák takes a look at his teaching methods, his meetings with his students at FAMU and at a park where they work with film, or in his studio.
20. Fungus (Houba)
This film essay about mushrooms and their connections to other living things tries to use the structure of mushrooms to explain nature, science, and civilization, all the while searching for various analogies, such as the similarities between mycorrhiza and other structures.
