Poetic Documentary Movies

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts...

An introspective journey through the silent language of architecture, "Sensuousness" presents an evocative tapestry of black-and-white imagery. Each...

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

A short film following Anthony, a young child from the small, rural town of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. We see him in different moments of...

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to...

Ibuka follows Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple, at the very beginning of the civil war and the massacres that swept through Rwanda in 1994....

An insightful, personal, and heartfelt spotlight on Professor Jennifer Dorothy Lee of the School the of Art Institute of Chicago.

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...

Through an unsent letter, the author travels through time and recalls moments when love affected him intensely. Evocative images explore how pain and...

The camera floats quietly to capture the beauty that emerges from the mundane. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition, Arseny Tarkovsky's poem...

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.

A short documentary that discusses gender and reconciling with the past.

A day in a retirement home.

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

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from childhood memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights.

The study of the artistic work and its relationship with the author generates reflections on the connection between the material and the spiritual....

Don't try to understand it. With an experimental visual aesthetic, Ninin invites you to reflect on the fleetingness of existence and the ephemeral...

A poetic documentary in which the narrator must grapple with the grief and emotions following the death of a close friend.