Poetic Documentary Movies

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls f...

Memory is an important part of life. Mimi Yu reminisces about her childhood through her poem Kitchen Dialogue, a short, intimate documentary of her ch...

Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place...

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning...

WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is a...

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present co...

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 and...

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

What is a film if not a therapeutic act? Wa(te)r is a poetiс reflection on my 2022–2023 diary entries, poured from one medium to another. I uncovered...

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

In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But comi...

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 his dai...

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

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 blo...