Direct Cinema Movies

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and...

Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via...

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

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his...

After their hunger strike in Berlin's government district, 5 climate activists reunite. While Lina has joined the "Last Generation," her comrades...

Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and...

Documentary short film that follows a man on his last day at work and his first day as a retiree.

Second part of collaborative project Brise-Glace. Directed by Titte Törnroth.

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has become the dormitory town for the workers of a...

Columbus, Ohio born filmmaker Renton Hinderer explores his hometown through the eyes of its residents, weaving together dozens of stories to reveal...

Sixteen best friends from across the planet meet for the first time and experience loss, love, and grief through the power of live music. Can they...

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

A group of young architects, confined to a forest in Barcelona during the COVID crisis, explore the problems generated by the ambition of wanting to...

A lo-fi documentary about the life of urban college youths

Jakob returns to his white whale in an attempt to rectify his past failures, ultimately realizing the powerful depths of what human beings are...