Best of Docs
A selection of the year’s most acclaimed documentaries, screened and awarded at top festivals. Powerful, unforgettable stories – a must-see for lovers of real-life storytelling.
A selection of the year’s most acclaimed documentaries, screened and awarded at top festivals. Powerful, unforgettable stories – a must-see for lovers of real-life storytelling.
From the maker of the Oscar-winning “20 Days in Mariupol”.
After receiving a terminal diagnosis, André is determined to maintain his humour while learning to die happily.
Oscar-nominated Gianfranco Rosi immerses us in the community near Mount Vesuvius where the past and present intermingle.
Two Ukranian medics try to hold on to fragments of the normal life, hoping they can go back when the war is done.
Breaking long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages.
The film explores the catastrophic influence of the Russian invasion on nature in Ukraine.
In this form-defying Rotterdam Tiger Award winner, citizens relive the strange post-WWI dictatorship that befell their city
A devoted soldier of the Taliban’s ideology struggles between the promises of martyrdom and the mundanity of his life.
Vladlena Sandu studies her traumatic memories of the war in Chechnya to transcend and transform them via cinema.
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a brave teacher films what's really happening in his own school.
A refugee matchmaker fights to heal her divided homeland – one couple at a time.
A visual look at the world of the inhabitants of the highest mine in Bolivia.
An intimate chronicle of the war that devastated southern Lebanon for a year and a half.
In a country where eligible men outnumber women by 30 million, three bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp.
Between Barcelona and Algeria, a young woman seeks to reconcile three generations of women divided by faith and exile.
Afghanistan’s last female ambassador, Manizha Bakhtari fights for the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan.
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning.