Observational Documentary Movies

In the coastal village of Amed, Bali, life moves to a rhythm set by the sea and the volcano. However, an unexpected change is taking shape on the...

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in the mining village of Almaden in southern Spain....

Cows With No Name is almost a diary, filmed one day at a time, of each stage of this process, documenting the operation of the farm with critical and...

Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. Filmed in 2016 at Standing Rock, North...

An observational documentary, shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, about a largely undeveloped river in southeastern North Carolina that...

This is the story of a team of 40 agents facing 4,000 job seekers at a job centre in the Parisian suburbs. Samia, Corinne, Thierry, Zuleika must...

William Vennard's collaboration with Janwillem van den Berg resulted in his film Voice Production: the Vibrating Larynx. Winning several awards,...

The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over...

In the shadow of the expanding Sahara, 'The End of the Road' unveils the battle of a Moroccan village against desertification and water scarcity.

After a failed suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric hospital, Raffael, a young father, decides that he must create his own “missing...

Like crocodiles pulling zebra into the Mara River and like Orcas beaching themselves to capture sea lions, the aerial attacks of great white sharks...

The night is falling and Montreal is under the snow. People line up at the lost and found office of the city’s transit company. They all have...