Poetic Documentary Movies

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

Syria. Among the ravages of war, there is also this more discreet yet vital phenomenon: exile. Leave, stay? A question Liwaa Jazji tackles. The place...

Exploration of the ordinary lives led by women of different classes—a college professor, an unmarried woman, and a seasoned drama artist. They...

The pictures are burning. A house is in flames for exactly one minute. Cinema under attack: An anonymous fragment from the early days of film is...

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts...

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

Two street artists with contrasting intentions about the artform tell the relevance of street art in society while accompanied by an enigmatic...

For two centuries, the Sycamore Gap tree stood as an iconic sentinel along Hadrian's Wall, shaping the landscape and lives of Northumberland. Its...

A poetic exploration of three subterranean telescopes in remote regions of Canada, Japan, and Antarctica that reveal a new way of perceiving the...

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and moods out of existing footage, mostly from early...

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 young filmmaker maintains an epistolary conversation with his deceased grandmother while he rediscovers the space they both inhabited for more than...