Poetic Documentary Movies

A day in a retirement home.

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

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

On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary...

Terpsichore is a captivating exploration of dance as an art form, illuminating the passion, discipline, and vulnerability that transform movement...

An experimental half-documentary half-fiction about a young person’s routine of getting to sleep and waking up.

Pictures taken between France and Mexico running at 8 frames per second.

The rise and fall of Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Vukotić - the only Yugoslav Oscar-winner and one of the founding members of the Zagreb...

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

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...

A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered...

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

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still...