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African Cats
2011 nature documentary film directed by Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill
Bye Bye Tiberias
2023 film
Notturno
2020 film by Gianfranco Rosi
Araya
1959 film by Margot Benacerraf
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait
1974 film by Barbet Schroeder
Youth (Spring)
2023 film directed by Wang Bing
Les Damnés de la mer
2008 film
How Yukong Moved the Mountains
1976 film by Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan
The Eye of Vichy
1993 film by Claude Chabrol
Daguerréotypes
Daguerréotypes is a 1976 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. The film consists of vignettes capturing life on Rue Daguerre, a street in Paris where Varda lived.
Rien que les heures
1926 film by Alberto Cavalcanti
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog
Une Fenêtre ouverte
2005 documentary film by Khady Sylla
L'Esprit de Mopti
1999 film
Mondo
1995 film by Tony Gatlif
Bigger Than Us
2021 film directed by Flore Vasseur
Genesis
2004 documentary film by Claude Nuridsany
Tomorrow
2015 documentary film by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent
Nostalgia for the Light
2010 film by Patricio Guzmán
We Iraqis
2004 film by Abbas Fahdel
Makala
2017 French documentary film directed by Emmanuel Gras
Born in China
2017 film by Lu Chuan
A Night of Knowing Nothing
2021 documentary film directed by Payal Kapadia
The Light Bulb Conspiracy
2010 film by Cosima Dannoritzer
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
2023 film by Anna Hints
Le Beurre et l'argent du beurre
2007 film by Philippe Baqué, Alidou Badini
Our Forbidden Places
2008 film by Leila Kilani
From Ground Zero
2024 anthology film by 22 Palestinian directors
The Virgin, the Copts and Me
2011 film by Namir Abdel Messeeh
Half a Life
1982 film by Romain Goupil
The Yes Men Fix the World
2009 film by Jacques Servin, Igor Vamos
The First Cry
2007 film
The Last of the Unjust
2013 French documentary directed by Claude Lanzmann
Architecton
Architecton is a 2024 documentary film written and directed by Viktor Kossakovsky about the ways that stone and concrete architecture express the values of societies.
Paris 1900
1947 film by Nicole Védrès
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2003 documentary film directed by Rithy Panh
Apolonia, Apolonia
2022 film directed by Lea Glob
La Mémoire maritime des arabes
2000 film by Khal Torabully
Dans le silence, je sens rouler la terre
2010 documentary film by Mohamed Lakhdar Tati
Les larmes de l'émigration
2010 film by Alassane Diago
The Velvet Queen
2021 film directed by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier
The Young Girls Turn 25
1993 film by Agnès Varda
The Lovers' Wind
1978 film
Echoes from a Somber Empire
1990 film directed by Werner Herzog
Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden
2008 film
La Robe du temps
2008 film by Malam Saguirou
J'ai tant aimé...
2008 documentary film by Dalila Ennadre
The Lebanese Rocket Society
2012 film directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Mural Murals
1982 film by Agnès Varda
Kinshasa Makambo
2018 film
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
2024 film directed by Raoul Peck
Porto of My Childhood
2001 film by Manoel de Oliveira
A Film Like Any Other
1968 film by Jean-Luc Godard
Libera Nos
2016 film by Federica Di Giacomo
Indochine, sur les traces d’une mère
2010 film
Red Wedding
2012 film by Guillaume Suon, Lida Chan
Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire
2007 film by Jean-Pierre Lledo
Zelal
Zelal is a 2010 documentary film on the life of patients in a psychiatric hospital in Egypt. It was directed by Marianne Khoury.
Level Five
1997 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker
Festival panafricain d’Alger 1969
1969 documentary film directed by William Klein