Poetic Documentary Movies

  • 2024
    Avant-Drag!

    Avant-Drag!

    Avant-Drag!

    7.52024HD

    Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query,...

    Avant-Drag!
  • 1961
    The Zoo

    The Zoo

    The Zoo

    6.91961HD

    A perfect, fast and hilarious montage. Using images from Artis (Amsterdam Zoo), Bert Haanstra shows that a couple of similarities can be discovered...

    The Zoo
  • 1929
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

    7.4291929HD

    A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

    Rain
  • 2024
    Hideaway

    Hideaway

    Hideaway

    02024HD

    Documentary portrait of the poet Karla Erbová is a confession of a creative personality who, despite many twists and turns in life, remains...

    Hideaway
  • 2021
    Life in a Day 2020

    Life in a Day 2020

    Life in a Day 2020

    82021HD

    On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary...

    Life in a Day 2020
  • 1950
    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

    6.21950HD

    In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

    Mirror of Holland
  • 2024
    Una Lluz

    Una Lluz

    Una Lluz

    02024HD

    Una Lluz
  • 1929
    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

    5.81929HD

    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
  • 2024
    Ashes of a Silent Sky

    Ashes of a Silent Sky

    Ashes of a Silent Sky

    102024HD

    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
  • 2024
    Álbum de recortes

    Álbum de recortes

    Álbum de recortes

    02024HD

    Álbum de recortes
  • 1970
    Con Traje y Sin Zapatos

    Con Traje y Sin Zapatos

    Con Traje y Sin Zapatos

    01970HD

    Con Traje y Sin Zapatos
  • 2024
    Letters to my Grandma

    Letters to my Grandma

    Letters to my Grandma

    02024HD

    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
  • 2024
    Elas vêm de LÁ

    Elas vêm de LÁ

    Elas vêm de LÁ

    02024HD

    Women find empowerment behind the red nose and makeup, revealing the playful and subversive spirit of female clowning. Through poetic and intimate...

    Elas vêm de LÁ
  • 1964
    Faces of November

    Faces of November

    Faces of November

    6.21964HD

    Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

    Faces of November
  • 1970
    Necrology

    Necrology

    Necrology

    5.71970HD

    The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

    Necrology
  • 2024
    Wrong Way

    Wrong Way

    Wrong Way

    102024HD

    In this short film the director reflects on the feeling of being on the wrong path in your life, that you have no control over your own life. But...

    Wrong Way
  • 2023
    A Little Love

    A Little Love

    A Little Love

    102023HD

    Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neuroscientist as they explore the definition of...

    A Little Love
  • 2024
    The Song of the Years to Come

    The Song of the Years to Come

    The Song of the Years to Come

    02024HD

    On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present...

    The Song of the Years to Come
  • 1970
    15

    15

    15

    01970HD

    Ibuka follows Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple, at the very beginning of the civil war and the massacres that swept through Rwanda in 1994....

    15
  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    51930HD

    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray