Observational Documentary Movies

Meet Lanz Priestley, a charasmatic homeless man, who owns nothing but a phone and a Facebook page. When Lanz discovers taps have run dry in...

In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their...

The War Diary is a contemporary road movie that confronts history with the current reality of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia. An extraordinary...

Faced with the risk of collision with the Earth, space agencies are refining their observations on the course of asteroids in our galaxy. A...

In November 2018, the news of the death of a 27-year-old American on the shore of a small island in the Indian Ocean went around the planet. Clash of...

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable...

An observational documentary that follows dairy farmer Sophie Gregory at Home Farm.

The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary...

In a small cockpit-like room, we see two young hip hop musicians from Tokyo giving birth to a beat: precision, patience and camaraderie hold sway,...

In this emotionally compelling documentary, Sister Helen opens a private home for recovering addicts and alcoholics in the South Bronx after the...

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into...

Stéphane Lissner, director of the Paris Opera, entrusts the staging of the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes to the visual artist Clément...

Living in France, a Rwandan psychotherapist committed to rebuilding her country returns this time to learn to play the inanga, the traditional...

The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over...

A tiny parcel shop in Berlin, which sends packages to faraway loved ones, offers the city’s Georgian community a slice of home.