Poetic Documentary Movies

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

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

What is the Art of Living ? A few weeks ago, I asked myself this question, as silly in its formality as it is complicated in its complexity. In this...

Two street artists with contrasting intentions about the artform tell the relevance of street art in society while accompanied by an enigmatic...

Filmed during lockdown 2020, ‘de Luz/Of Light’ explores fleeting perceptions and cyclic rituals of Portuguese coastal landscapes,...

Real testimonials from five Latin American immigrants who share their experiences and challenges, recounting what it has been like to build a new...

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

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is...

A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images.

A story about Europe´s largest terrestrial mammal and their potential return to Swedish forests. The audience also meets Rikard, the main...

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

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

Filmed In the heart of the mountainous villages of Greece and North Macedonia, the documentary follows a group of conservators of antiquities and...

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and moods out of existing footage, mostly from early...

Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in...

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 poetic mosaic of intimate and cultural perspectives on Pará reveals a sensory experience of discovery. Between spontaneous records, memory,...