Poetic Documentary Movies

Sharing is a documentary that will show the process of building a video dance performed by four female artists who have a connection not only with...

A day in a retirement home.

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and...

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.

“Sisters” is a deeply personal story about my journey back to my home country of Venezuela to investigate the possibility of a long lost...

A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning...

A video poem about a house. The home, or at least its foundations, are what evoke memories of that childhood, now lost in time.

A rural town in Ireland swells to a population of half a million for one week during the world’s largest annual celebration of Irish music,...

In the flow of an energy and of a dream, an intermittent voice wanders in search of itself. Among mountains, accumulations, waterfalls, feral and...

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place...

«I often have dreams. Careless dreams. When the sun was shining. It was calm and quiet. And a peaceful sky overhead.» An experimental...

Documentary portrait of the poet Karla Erbová is a confession of a creative personality who, despite many twists and turns in life, remains...

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly...

Through an unsent letter, the author travels through time and recalls moments when love affected him intensely. Evocative images explore how pain and...