Movies: Documentary filmmaking

Four thrill seekers making a short film about an abandoned backwoods property in Gateway, Minnesota, unleash an evil legend that should have been left forgotten....

Documentary on Nicolas Roeg...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured....

This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the first Cambodian American Mayor in the United States. Chau immigrated to the U.S. at seven years old to es...

Three third-culture children suffer from a lack of belonging in their hometown after they return for college life. After completing their college life and submitting their graduation project, will they ever remain in their hometown or will they retur...

Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup by signing Easy Rider legend Peter Fonda as his presenter. Travelling to Aotearoa, Samoa, Japan and the United St...

The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies....

The documentary follows the journey of workers in the city of São Paulo whose crafts have been passed down from generation to generation. Amid the voracious growth of a city that increasingly leaves them aside, the workers resist through acts of repa...

A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone....

A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world's top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin's ninetieth ye...

A documentary about the trials and tribulations of being a entrepreneur and film maker in Finland from the makers of Iron Sky franchise....

A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in Southern California. In their local skate community, they find cathartic release, chosen family and mastery of empowerment....

To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages....

An excerpt about the troubled, passionate and intriguing relationship of an actor with his own life....

The intimate and passionate portrait of the late Max Croci in a documentary that recalls the human and cultural depth with the testimonies of friends and colleagues....

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A documentary showcasing a family as they pack up their home of twelve years and begin looking towards the future....

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Upon learning of his father's terminal illness diagnosis, a young, autistic, hearing-impaired artist travels back to Taiwan with a filmmaker to make a film in his honour....

Fall in love with our Avon and the people fighting to protect it, the Bristol way! Rave On For The Avon is a feature-length documentary film that follows campaigners and river lovers through six seasons: their highs and lows, love and loss....