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  • Above and Below (2015)

    1. Above and Below

    20151h 58mNot Rated77Metascore
    6.6 (470)
    Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.
    DirectorNicolas SteinerStarsEdward CardenasCynthia GoodwinRichard F. Ethredge
  • Songs and Tears of Nature (1992)

    2. Songs and Tears of Nature

    199254m
    Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film reveals Man's relationship with nature, from the indigenous people point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and the Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice-fields, beyond the trees, the countries, the climates, the skins - the same intuition : the whole future is in their hands.
    DirectorCesar Paes
  • Saudade Do Futuro (2000)

    3. Saudade Do Futuro

    20001h 32m57Metascore
    6.7 (47)
    Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.
    DirectorCesar PaesStarsLuiza ErundinaFábio FreireEzequias Lira
  • Awara Soup (1996)

    4. Awara Soup

    19961h 11m
    9.2 (10)
    The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he is sure never to leave Guiana. Using the cooking of this dish as starting point, the film explores the multicultural reality that composes this French overseas region. American Indians, Europeans, Slave descendants, Laotians, Chinese, Brazilian, Surinamese, tell us how they are bringing new flavours to the Guianese stew of identities.
    DirectorCesar Paes
  • Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)

    5. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul

    20051h 30mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.8 (7.5K)
    Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.
    DirectorFatih AkinStarsAlexander HackeAhmed UlugCem Yegul
  • Werner Herzog and Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man (2005)

    6. Grizzly Man

    20051h 43mR87Metascore
    7.8 (65K)
    A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsTimothy TreadwellAmie HuguenardWerner Herzog
  • Half-Life in Fukushima (2016)

    7. Half-Life in Fukushima

    20161h 1m
    6.2 (129)
    Despite the danger of radioactivity, a man decides to stay in the land of his ancestors. The last protector of life in a land of death.
    DirectorsMark OlexaFrancesca ScalisiStarNaoto Matsumura
  • Amsterdam Global Village (1996)

    8. Amsterdam Global Village

    19964h 5m
    7.4 (171)
    This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.
    DirectorJohan van der KeukenStarJulika Marijn
  • Someone Beside You (2007)

    9. Someone Beside You

    20071h 30m
    7.5 (25)
    Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in mobile homes, they explore the depths of the human psyche in search of answers to the question: What is the human mind and how does it behave in psychotic extreme situations? By the time Edgar Hagen meets the Buddhist monk and trained psychiatrist Edward Podvoll in the U.S., Podvoll has only a few more months to live. His vision - that courage and friendship have the power to make recovery from mental illness possible - is an inspiring legacy. In a dialogue between Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, a message of hope emerges: It is always possible to regain mental clarity no matter how severely confused a mind may have become.
    DirectorEdgar Hagen
  • Un petit coin de paradis (2008)

    10. Un petit coin de paradis

    20081h 25mNot Rated
    6.6 (7)
    This is the story of the life reborn of Ossona, a hamlet in Val d'Herens in the Valais canton, which was abandoned in the sixties and has now become the pilot project for an agro-tourism site. From 2005 to 2008, we followed the restoration of this site listed as a sustainable development zone, and those involved in the project. Some of them are aged between 14 and 16 years old and were born in Haiti, Morocco and Sion. These youth attend an institution for teenagers in difficulty. Can their minds be transformed by tiring work in the mountains? Once a week, through building and farming work, they completely put themselves into restoring this ghost hamlet. The other participants are between 75 and 90 years old. After having spent their childhood in self-sufficiency here in Ossona they left to discover "modern" life when the dams were being built. As witnesses, they have returned to tell their stories... What can representatives of the valley's old folks and multicultural youth have in common? What do they have to talk about, what can they pass on to each other?
    DirectorJacqueline Veuve
  • Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009)

    11. Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

    20091h 25mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.3 (129)
    Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprises of a series of interviews conducted in the USA, Paris and Barcelona, and documents from the archives about the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances.
    DirectorVirginie DespentesStarsNorma Jean AlmodovarMaria BeattyLynn Breedlove
  • The Salt of the Earth (2014)

    12. The Salt of the Earth

    20141h 50mPG-1383Metascore
    8.4 (25K)
    The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
    DirectorsJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick Salgado
  • Pina (2011)

    13. Pina

    20111h 43mPG83Metascore
    7.6 (16K)
    A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsPina BauschRegina AdventoMalou Airaudo
  • Ibrahim Ferrer in Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

    14. Buena Vista Social Club

    19991h 45mG81Metascore
    7.6 (22K)
    Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsCompay SegundoIbrahim FerrerRubén González
  • Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents (2013)

    15. Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents

    20131h 33m
    7.1 (81)
    DirectorPeter Liechti
  • Winter Nomads (2012)

    16. Winter Nomads

    20121h 30m77Metascore
    7.4 (421)
    A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole.
    DirectorManuel von StürlerStarsCarole NoblancJean-Paul PeguironPascal Éguisier
  • Solutions locales pour un désordre global (2010)

    17. Solutions locales pour un désordre global

    20101h 53m
    7.5 (349)
    Heroic machist industrial agronomy producing heavily contaminated and modified food and arid wastelands is challenged by several world examples of sensitive organic approach to producing food.
    DirectorColine SerreauStarsDominique GuilletVandana ShivaAna Primavesi
  • Nomad's Land: In the Footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier (2008)

    18. Nomad's Land: In the Footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier

    20081h 30m
    7.6 (43)
    The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land of the Fifties recounted in l'Usage du Monde: Iran in crises, Pakistan shaken by tribal violence's, Taliban, civil war in Sri Lanka. This world, Bouvier had the usage, seem to have disappeared under the veil of time. Disappointed the director leaves the main road traced by the famous Topolino and continues on the small path with the nomads. In creating his own route, Gael Metroz reveals the writer's philosophy of travel.
    DirectorGaël MétrozStarEliane Bouvier
  • Tosca's Kiss (1984)

    19. Tosca's Kiss

    19841h 27mNot Rated
    7.9 (220)
    Retired opera singers reenact past roles at a Milan nursing home. Daniel Schmid's "Tosca's Kiss" captures their poignant performances, exploring how music's inspirational power intersects with aging.
    DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsGiuseppe ManacchiniLeonida BellonSalvatore Locapo
  • Neuland (2013)

    20. Neuland

    20131h 33m
    7.9 (106)
    Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
    DirectorAnna ThommenStarsChristian ZinggEhsanullah HabibiNazlije Aliji
  • Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

    21. Encounters at the End of the World

    20071h 39mG80Metascore
    7.7 (20K)
    Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogScott RowlandStefan Pashov
  • Jean-Michel Bertrand in La vallée des loups (2016)

    22. La vallée des loups

    20161h 30m
    7.5 (123)
    A man goes on a three year hike on the trail of wolves in the French Alps.
    DirectorJean-Michel BertrandStarJean-Michel Bertrand
  • India: Matri Bhumi (1959)

    23. India: Matri Bhumi

    19591h 30m
    7.2 (785)
    Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
    DirectorRoberto Rossellini
  • Chris the Swiss (2018)

    24. Chris the Swiss

    20181h 30m
    7.1 (582)
    Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
    DirectorAnja KofmelStarsSusanne-Marie WrageMegan GayChristian Würtenberg

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