Poetic Documentary Movies

  • 2016
    Terra Firma

    Terra Firma

    Terra Firma

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    In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

    Terra Firma
  • 1999
    Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire and Not the Worship of Ashes

    Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire and Not the Worship of Ashes

    Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire and Not the Worship of Ashes

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    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...

    Tradition Is the Handing on of Fire and Not the Worship of Ashes
  • 2010
    Get Out of the Car

    Get Out of the Car

    Get Out of the Car

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    A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

    Get Out of the Car
  • 2023
    California Light

    California Light

    California Light

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

    California Light
  • 2024
    Sol de Mayo

    Sol de Mayo

    Sol de Mayo

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    Sol de Mayo
  • 1929
    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

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    A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...

    Skyscraper Symphony
  • 2019
    The Rope of Death

    The Rope of Death

    The Rope of Death

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    An encounter with the last shamans of Bolivia's Beni River Valley brings the audience on an intimate spiritual journey through the Amazon Rainforest....

    The Rope of Death
  • 2024
    Letters to my Grandma

    Letters to my Grandma

    Letters to my Grandma

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

    Letters to my Grandma
  • 2025
    Kitchen Dialogue

    Kitchen Dialogue

    Kitchen Dialogue

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    Memory is an important part of life. Mimi Yu reminisces about her childhood through her poem Kitchen Dialogue, a short, intimate documentary of her...

    Kitchen Dialogue
  • 2024
    Cine Dunas

    Cine Dunas

    Cine Dunas

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    Cine Dunas
  • 2023
    WINHANGANHA

    WINHANGANHA

    WINHANGANHA

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    WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is...

    WINHANGANHA
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

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    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...

    The Taste of Life
  • 2011
    Todos tienen algo Desierto

    Todos tienen algo Desierto

    Todos tienen algo Desierto

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    Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

    Todos tienen algo Desierto
  • 2015
    When the Earth Seems to Be Light

    When the Earth Seems to Be Light

    When the Earth Seems to Be Light

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    A poetic documentary about modern youth... the stories of kids, skaters, artists and musicians in a post soviet Georgia - a country in a distracted...

    When the Earth Seems to Be Light
  • 2024
    The Boy of The Fish

    The Boy of The Fish

    The Boy of The Fish

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    "The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he...

    The Boy of The Fish
  • 1970
    Permanent Stories: A Short Documentary

    Permanent Stories: A Short Documentary

    Permanent Stories: A Short Documentary

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    An intimate documentary telling people's stories about their scars, how they got them and their overall opinion on them.

    Permanent Stories: A Short Documentary
  • 2014
    Haunted

    Haunted

    Haunted

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    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...

    Haunted
  • 2022
    Moscow Calling

    Moscow Calling

    Moscow Calling

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    The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone...

    Moscow Calling
  • 2016
    Pickle

    Pickle

    Pickle

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    An ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence, displayed through the homegrown remedies...

    Pickle
  • 2024
    Ashes of a Silent Sky

    Ashes of a Silent Sky

    Ashes of a Silent Sky

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    A poignant journey through the vast expanses of a lonely desert, where one man must confront the shadows of his past of loss and find the strength to...

    Ashes of a Silent Sky