Documentary movies

Dmytro Dokunov, a Ukrainian cinematographer, is deployed in a combat unit to face the Russian invasion with his mobile camera always recording.

A psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.

Dimitri loves photographing friends, strangers, lovers. Over the years, images have slipped away from his sight. Behind his camera, he gathers light and bodies, inviting us to gaze toward the hidden face of the Earth.

An intimate portrait of the Turner Prize-winning artist. As the boundary between reality and performance blurs, the shifting relationship between filmmaker and subject calls into question who is actually making the film.

The story of a city and its uprisings. From the 1940s into the present, Rania Rafei follows Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-biggest city, over the years, moving through different generations and factions. An act of political tenderness.

In India and the U.S., scientists are developing a new male contraceptive that could revolutionize family planning and transform women’s lives worldwide. The film follows the researchers as they strive to successfully launch a reversible male contraceptive—the first breakthrough since the modern condom was invented 200 years ago.

In rural Vermont, aging sugarmakers honor a centuries-old tradition in this powerful meditation on family legacy, loss, and resilience.

For US agent Greg Squire and a dedicated network of specialist undercover investigators around the world, the mission is clear: track and catch serial paedophiles who operate across the dark web with the same sophistication and secrecy as international organised crime syndicates. Increasingly, these offenders are far younger than the stereotypical image of a paedophile - tech-savvy young adults who exploit digital anonymity with alarming ease.

Set on an island 600 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, this intimate vérité portrait follows two young Inuit coming of age. Created in close collaboration with a local children’s home and filmed in the Greenlandic language, the story traces identity, tradition, loss, and resilience. Living alongside its protagonists, the film observes a fragile passage between deep cultural roots and an uncertain, rapidly changing world.

Growing Up Nyima is a documentary film that follows Nyima Tucker, a young woman of Ngarluma, Banjima, and Yamatji heritage, as she moves between the worlds of city and country. Born in the Pilbara and raised in Karratha before relocating to Perth at sixteen, Nyima’s journey captures the tension between modern life and ancestral connection. Across the 1,500 km that separate these landscapes, she grapples with questions of identity, belonging, and the meaning of home.