Documentary movies

A filmmaker explores his connection to the grandfather he never got to meet.

For the last twelve years, Marisela and Ely, along with the volunteer group The Águilas del Desierto have roamed the US-Mexico desert. Their goal: to seek, find and return to their families the bodies of migrants who died while crossing on foot. This all-consuming calling takes a crushing toll on them, but how could they stop? Spare My Bones, Coyote! follows their work, dedication, and difficult lives they have chosen to live.

Once a rising star in Taiwan's mountaineering boom, A-Gong fell into debt and went on the run, hiding on Yushan before surrendering. After prison, he returned to the mountains, rebuilding his life step by step. Now, he's a living legend among Taiwan's high-altitude trails.

Tao litterateur Syaman Rapongan bridges the bond between father and son through the Tatala and his writing, preserving the memory of his people. Spanning seventy years, the film interweaves footage from different eras, evoking the spirit of the language and culture rooted in the sea and the body. Along this journey, Syaman Rapongan learned and borrowed a foreign language to tell the story of his own people.

B for BARTLEBY is a documentary film essay about a very personal confrontation with this narrative: It becomes a re-encounter with a deceased companion, who wanted to film Bartleby all his life. Then a journey to the USA, to the farmhouse of Herman Melville. Here today's "classic" of American literature, conscripted the women of his family to "write off". We see performative experiments with women "learning" Bartleby and men practicing writing; we see everyday encounters with Bartleby in a cafeteria, a youth club, a center for the stranded. and a legendary offstage theater in New York. Goose quills scurry across blank pages, actresses memorize text that might be their own, costumed museum employees lead tours of "original showplaces," animals (beloved by Herman Melville above all else) glare at us. "Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" It's about the desire and curiosity to find out how to peacefully cope with a personal visitation.

A documentary about We Luv Video

In 2021, improv comedian Luke O’Grady is asked to perform his first ever stand-up comedy set, and record it as a special. The only catch: there is no audience. A meditation on what the role of the comedian is without an audience to guide and assess the performance.

One person’s perspective of the year 2024 shown through an accumulation of 365 unedited shots with one shot from each of the 365 days.

Hafiz & Friends: We Were Always Meant to Be Here reflects on the quiet evolution of friendship—how closeness can change, how distance can grow, and how time reshapes the bonds we once believed were permanent. Through intimate moments and unspoken shifts, the film captures the fragile space between holding on and letting go, offering a gentle meditation on connection, memory, and becoming.

Have A Word's very own Make-A-Wish kid Harry is given his dream day - including body slams, head-on helmet collisions (not a euphemism) and dangerous driving. Happy Harry Day.