Documentaries

  • Visually extravagant

    Danish director Anders Østergaard has always been fascinated by the relationship between an artist and his/her art. Like in his earlier film "The Makers",…

  • Listener with her camera

    The new film by Claire Simon bears the name of Simon’s friend Mimi whose story and personality make the film. While Mimi Chiola tells…

  • From a fisherman into a man who stands up against authorities

    Hungarian fishermen along the Tisza River had been earning their living from the fish in the river for generations.

  • The birth of the cinema

    "These are the first images of a country. One rainy night, one flag is taken down. Another takes its place." A woman's voice pronounces…

  • The Invisible Hand

    Sylvain L’Espérance’s video documentary La Main invisible (The Invisible Hand) is, in one way, about globalization, taking as its jumping off point the mining…

  • Constantly searching for the universal

    In the year of homage to Henri Cartier-Bresson, it is good to be reminded of other great observers in the art of photography, such…

  • CINÉMA DU RÉEL: 25 Years

    With usual modesty, the organisers of Cinéma du Réel celebrated its 25th edition this year: filled cinemas at the Centre Pompidou for a high-quality…

  • Music used in the fight for freedom

    A stirring documentary that salutes the formidable role black liberation music played in the long and arduous struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

  • The story of Cuban refugees

    Balseros (Spanish: Rafters) is a 2002 Catalan documentary co-directed by Carles Bosch and Josep Maria Domènech about Cubans leaving during the Período Especial.

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