Documentaries
The best documentaries in streaming. Arthouse documentary, new languages and avant-garde documentary experiments, new outlooks on reality. The documentary captures the reality we live in, it is a direct testimony of the world around us. The documentary tells about real places and characters, their lives, their environment.
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Eve of the Irises
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Documentary, by Isabel Russinova, Rodolfo Martinelli Carraresi, Italy, 2026
Eva of the Irises is a historical biographical docu-film about the scientist Eva Mameli Calvino, a botanist and pioneer of environmentalism in Italy, mother of the writer Italo, born in Sassari in 1886. The film, based o...
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Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration
Movie + 2 extras
Docufiction, Experimental, by Paul Smart, Mexico, 2026.
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration is a debut feature that places the biography of an eighty-year-old experimental filmmaker and artist, Barry Gerson, within the metanarrative of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Don Barry was filmed in the c... -
The Riley Scott Tapes
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Documentary by Andres D. Bahns, USA, 2026.
"The Riley Scott Tapes" is a pseudo-documentary about the mysterious murder of three college friends in 2019 and the horrific mystery surrounding the killer and the scant evidence that has emerged in the case.Director Biography - Andres D. Bahns
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Black Men in Uniform - The Untold Story
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Documentary, by Emunah La-Paz, United States, 2026.
Pata Seca (1828) was a man whose back bore the marks of his masters’ whips, whose eyes held the haunting memory of being forced to father over 200 enslaved children to sustain his owner’s plantation. Broken yet unyielding men, transformed from l... -
St. Mary of Vezzolano. The Restoration of the Jubé
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Documentary, by Fedele Aula, Italy, 1998.
In the heart of Monferrato, among silent hills and winding roads, stands the Canonica of Santa Maria di Vezzolano: a place where history, art, and spirituality have intertwined for nearly a thousand years. At the center of the narrative emerges the jubé, ... -
Shot the Voice of Freedom
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Documentary, by Zainab Entezar, Afghanistan, 2025.
This is a story about two sisters who have decided to fight against the unfortunate fate that has befallen them in Afghanistan. They protest against the loss of their basic rights, including the right to education, work, clothing, and even the ri... -
Interpreting Erik
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Documentary by Donald D’Haene, Canada, 2025.
Selected by 169 festivals, ERIK—inspired by the director’s bestselling book No One Wants To Read That You’re Happy—blends laughter and tears within a truly unique family. The director tells the story of his brother Erik with emotion yet detachment, wit... -
In Their Own Time
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In Their Own Time is the journey of three women – Srija, Tuhnu and Jhumur – who reflect on love, loss, childhood, friendship and a sense of belonging over the course of three years; we never see their faces, as the evolution of their experiences unfolds through an intrinsically dynamic and increa...
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Penosar
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Documentary, by Hosein Fatahi, Iran, 2025.
An elderly shepherd lives with his wife in the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran) during the summer. He takes care of his sheep and observes the surrounding nature. In his free time, he paints on rocks. His paintings are inspired by the natural environment... -
CASTI quel che costi
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Documentary by Michelangelo Gregori, Italy, 2025.
An artist is asked by a fraudulent entertainment agent and a self-proclaimed historian to write a "performance" to commemorate Giovanni Battista Casti, three hundred years after his birth. A situation and a tribute that, just like the author in qu... -
Old Wood Washed up by the Sea...
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Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi... -
Self Defence
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Documentary, by Olaf de Fleur, Iceland, 2025.
Self-Defence follows the story of Imma Helga, a self-defence instructor in Iceland who turned her teenage struggles with prejudice, homophobia, and depression into a mission of empowerment. Together with her brother Jón Viðar, she teaches a practical,... -
Gaza: A Dance School Under The Bombs
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Documentary, by Antoine Schirer, Palestine, 2025.
This is the story of two gazan hip-hop dance teachers, who kept dancing all the way, until their dance school was bombed. We met Ahmed Alghariz as he just escaped Gaza.LANGUAGE: English
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Flying with Fins
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Documentary, by Maria Averina, Bulgaria, 2025.
Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about contemporary art, touching meetings with the closest people and places in Bulgaria after 50 years of s... -
Brussel: Housing, Transport & People
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Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me... -
Feast
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Documentary, by Franco Piavoli, 2018, Italy.
Franco Piavoli, author of the masterpiece "The Blue Planet", returns to the director to capture the "evening of the day of celebration", between Leopardi and Pascoli. A journey between the poetic and the anthropological. What is a "feast"? What does it... -
Sudditalia
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Documentary, by Adamo Mastrangelo, Italy, 2023.
"Sudditalia" is a documentary directed by Adamo Mastrangelo that takes an in-depth look at the socio-economic conditions of Southern Italy. Through an immersive narrative, the film follows the daily lives of people living in the southern regions of ... -
Every Work of Confession
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Documentary, by Alberto Gemmi, Mirco Marmiroli, Italy, 2016.
A man has decided to buy a penthouse in a controversial area of the city. From the windows of this building you can see a huge area in disuse. It is an industrial complex with a glorious past, which lies waiting for a complex redevelo... -
Days Blows by in a Moment
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Documentary, by Cristiana Donghi, Italy, 2022.
Ancilla is 86 years old. Two years ago, she moved in with her daughter Emanuela at the pandemic's beginning. Ancilla is slowly losing her memory. He does not remember what she had for lunch, she only remembers events from the past, perhaps only becau... -
Cathnafola - A Paranormal Investigation
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Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
In "Cathnafola", everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ... -
Studio 2091
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Documentary, by Naù Germoglio, Italy, 2020
In a former warehouse on the ground floor of the civic number "2091", in the district of “Santa Croce” in Venice, two sculptors, a craftswoman and an alchemist-photographer work together. It is a 65 square meters space with two windows overlooking a smal... -
Turcomannia
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Documentary, by Leopoldo Bonessio, Italy, 2024.
Leopoldo, the director, finds himself filming with little more than a tent and a GoPro in the most isolated, mysterious and authoritarian of the ex-Soviet countries, Turkmenistan. He has 5 days to find out what kind of strange people live in this de... -
Investigation of Six Pieces of Noisy Life Dispersed in a Sultry Summer
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Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
A documentary shot as "proximity film", intimate filming with a "sensible structural" scheme. The confidential atmosphere originates from the closeness between the author and the characters: a closeness that is necessary to create a communicative intima... -
The Choice to Stay
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Documentary, by Mattia Mura, Italy, 2020.
Damanhur is a community of spiritual seekers located in Valchiusella, Piedmont. The people of Damanhur, who live in the largest ecovillage in Italy, consider themselves to belong to a micronation, although it is not recognized by the Italian state. The co...