Documentary movies

Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia fled their country, without their parents, when they were only children. They had to start all over here in Canada in the hope of a better life. Combining real shooting and animated cinema, "Alone" bears the imprint of hope: how does a child manage to rebuild himself in a new country, when he has left everything behind?

Le Passeur immobile, which covers the year 1987, is a Booklet filmed stuck between The Days and the Nights (1986) and The Artifice and the Fake (1988). These Notebooks have been punctuating my activity as a filmmaker for about fifteen years. They are like a life parallel to my other films and film series (Cinema, Group Portrait, Read, etc.). They are also like a letter to the spectators.

Tree Ukrainian volunteers, injured during the war with the Russians and the separatists, are treated at the military hospital of Kyiv. Three generations, three social environments, three different regions. Dmytro, Oleksii and Anatolii are recovering, hoping and preparing for their future.

This documentary tells the story of Freddie Mercury in the form of a trip to England in which we retrace his life, visiting the apartments he lived in, the studios in which he recorded his albums, his school friends and the venues in which he gave his most memorable concerts. Every one of these locations provides us with the opportunity to look back over Freddie Mercury’s career, and to interview those who knew him.

A road trip, over ten years, across the so-called Amexican border, a mythical boundary, both physical and cultural, that separates the United States of America from the United Mexican States; a journey in search of the multiple stories of those who inhabit it or are passing through: an audacious expedition that aims to paint a colorful fresco where politics, violence, visual poetry and frustrated ambitions cruelly coexist.

In a drought-struck region in India, suffering from climate change and a high suicide rate amongst farmers, a group of resilient women farmers, who recently lost their husbands, is coming together with a local psychologist to learn counselling and help others in grief.

People of different faiths, gender and regions make up Mumbai, The huge human jigsaw in this vast urban sprawl with a population of about twenty million. We'll meet Kallu, who collects dead bodies from the Mithi River... Ambulance drivers like Raj Lokhande and Jeevan who race through narrow, jammed lanes to save lives daily... Former Red light area workers of Kamathipura - Asha and Shobha - who were sold, caged and forced into prostitution and now are part of the Oasis NGO, transforming the lives of other women... Construction workers Azaad, Janaab and Rajaram are employed daily on terrifying building sites, hoping to earn a happy home life while moving from one temporary dwelling to another... Fisherman Akash and his family are caught in a declining market with no guarantee of quality fish or decent prices due to contamination in the sea...

Telugu Film Director Vamsy Shares the Story of Actor Rajanala.

Telugu Film Director Vamsy, reminisces about his early days as an Assistant Director Working at "Seethakoka Chilaka" sets with his Mentor Bharathi Raja and how he made a Unique Trailer Cut for the Film.

"Amma’s Pride" chronicles Valli’s unwavering support for her trans daughter, Srija, as she navigates the trials and tribulations of falling in love, getting married, and fighting for state recognition of her marriage in a traditional small town in South India. When societal pressures push Srija’s marriage to the edge, Valli clings to the hope of a miracle.

Short Documentary about political conflicts faced by a rooted generation of football players in North Madras.

In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war, which began in 1983 and ended in 2009, five women collaborate with a team of theatre practitioners and academic researchers, sharing the horrific violence they endured during the conflict as part of a process of recovery.

After giving birth to a deaf daughter, a Pakistani mother questions the custom that would have her hide her child out of family shame, and ends up building a community that uplifts deaf children through education and respect.

The parallel stories of four Pakistani immigrants in Greece become the trigger for the director to explore the story of his father, a worker in the Perama Shipyard. The background unfolds a most deadly shipwreck, Libyan immigrants found in limbo, as well as a (possibly racist) crime, which was committed during the shooting of this film.

A documentary highlighting the impact of floods on education in Sindh, Pakistan.

A story of a boy who snuck into an open cricket trial and clocked 92.3 mph. He hasn't looked back since

Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environment of escalating violence, Arbab explores what it is like being a Muslim in India. The film ebbs and flows between looking outside, where a constant stream of hate erupts, and inside, where Arbab's parents renegotiate their place in the country with changing times.

Bhashaili tells the story of Pakistani Bengali’s living in Karachi, many of whom face issues around citizenship and Statelessness despite being in their fourth generation. We follow the everyday stories of young and old Pakistani Bengalis as they chase their dreams, find love, stand up for injustices, and face despair around their lack of recognition in Pakistan.

Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. Today they fight for dignity in life and death. TRANS KASHMIR is a film about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their growing movement for basic human rights.

Javier has heard of El Pelícano, an old industrial warehouse corralón in the center of Seville, in which a diverse group of artists, musicians, painters and craftsmen interrelate forming a free, fruitful and luminous community. In this "world apart" live peculiar characters such as El Canijo de Jerez, Pepe Ortega, Orlando, La Chocolata, Chipi, José Guapachá, Miriam y Rorro, Marta, Perpetuo, Jeri, Ana and many others, whom we will get to know in a Tour through the alleys of this popular space where Art looks for you and finds you.