Category
page 2French documentary films

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