Documentales 2024

Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long term inmates or those newly admitted: women re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison, in trance and balance, voguing and singing.

In 1968 Munich, a high school classroom becomes a film studio directed by Edgar Reitz, chronicling the lives of teenage girls.

Ana, Patricia and Mayela grow up when sexuality is taboo. Now channeled as one 65-year-old, the protagonist revisits intertwined memories, secrets and desires, giving voice to unspoken past experiences.

War, Politics or Revolution. These are the choices of Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe. Three destinies, and the same desire to change a sick country: Lebanon. How to keep on dreaming when all around us is falling apart?

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.

Follows Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine. He used his music to fight the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.

Asil, a young Syrian refugee, processes her trauma through Amal, a giant puppet symbolizing millions of displaced children. Amal's journey from the Syrian border in Turkey across Europe is one of compassion and discovery.

What is the meaning of life, death and all the rest? Max Kestner gives an energetic and imaginative answer in his adventurous film, which begins with the killing of a young giraffe from Copenhagen.

A fascinating look at the intersection of art, commerce, and digital ownership through the rise and crash of the NFT market.

Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse.

Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.

We follow Mina, robbers and their work in the prison radio. A show running on Norwegian radio. We see them in everyday situations where they interview each other and open up about their upbringing, life behind bars in life's big questions.

IMMORTALS is an insight into the hopes and broken dreams of a new generation that has known nothing but war since the U.S.-led occupation.

Gerel sees her gang falls apart and gradually renounces her violent methods while confronts her past traumas and secrets with Temuulen.

In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.

Explores teaching and learning in Vienna where over 60% of primary school students speak a first language other than German, yet there is a severe lack of teachers and supervisors.

Once Upon a Time in a Forest is a documentary about young people defending Finland's last coniferous forest, exploring environmental feelings and the love story of 22-year-old protagonist Ida.

After actor Søren Spanning's stroke in 2014, his children document their family's adaptation over six years, navigating their evolving relationship and coping with grief until his death in 2020.

More than three decades after having lost her mother to a brutal crime in Uganda, director Patricia returns to her native country, Uganda, to confront her dark past in a deeply personal quest for truth and inner peace.

After her mom's tragic death on the Polish-Belarusian border a 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers. A partially animated coming-of-age story in the times of a global refugee crisis.

A Danish writer embarks on a quest to locate a disappeared Apache tribe in Mexico but becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas, wrestling with the moral complexities of pursuing a tribe that ardently seeks obscurity.

Through candid interviews we follow a group of Danish men and women, all aged 80+. With poignant openness and honesty, they share their thoughts on their life partnerships; lost loves who, one way or another, are no longer with them.

A man revisits his grandparents' Mozambique village where he grew up when civil war raged. His grandmother protected him from the war back then. The film now shines light into that dark history prudently.

Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.

The Swedish gang conflict seen from the inside over five years by a filmmaker who is at home portraying one of Sweden's most dangerous areas, which he is now moving out of. A poetic and existential film about life, death and brotherhood.