Poetic Documentary Movies

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political...

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...

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....

A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.

In the flow of an energy and of a dream, an intermittent voice wanders in search of itself. Among mountains, accumulations, waterfalls, feral and...

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

Filmed In the heart of the mountainous villages of Greece and North Macedonia, the documentary follows a group of conservators of antiquities and...

A video poem about a house. The home, or at least its foundations, are what evoke memories of that childhood, now lost in time.

A city symphony film in 16mm composed from advertising signs, building facades, fragments of music and conversation, and unmarked sites of vanished...

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...

The camera floats quietly to capture the beauty that emerges from the mundane. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition, Arseny Tarkovsky's poem...

After the Taliban takeover in 2021, LineOut follows Afghan refugees in a poetic dreamscape where a metaphoric voice reflects grief, healing, and the...

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

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee.

A story about Europe´s largest terrestrial mammal and their potential return to Swedish forests. The audience also meets Rikard, the main...