Poetic Documentary Movies
- 2016
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...
- 1999
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...
- 2010
Get Out of the Car
Get Out of the Car5.42010HD
A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...
- 2023
California Light
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One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives.
- 2024
Sol de Mayo
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- 1929
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...
- 2019
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....
- 2024
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...
- 2025
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...
- 2024
Cine Dunas
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- 2023
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...
- 1979
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...
- 2011
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.
- 2015
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...
- 2024
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...
- 1970
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.
- 2014
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...
- 2022
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...
- 2016
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...
- 2024
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...