Tag Archives: meilleur film 2021

In this film, dreams offer respite from a daily existence that is riddled with anxiety. Guided by inspiring inner poetry, the filmmaker ...

Ghosts, in the folklore of many cultures, are supposed spirits or souls. Traditionally they were believed to be images of deceased people, but ...

Why a documentarian wants to use film to explore the world.

A look into the flow of traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

A mortician explains the embalming process while considering a family’s last moments to say goodbye to their loved one.

Five young Black artists in Brooklyn – the epicenter of the nation’s Covid-19 crisis,discuss their views on freedom, artistic expression and ...

Blizzard Einstein prepares for duty in Times Square.

Indigenous peoples’ identity, language, culture, and value systems have been persistently under attack due to ongoing systemic racism embedded in ...

The director searches for the meaning of home, and what she gains as she moves from place to place.

After Frances’ death, Sally – Frances’ daughter and closest companion – moves through their shared breakfast routine. In being present to these ...

Moosehide Slide (« Ëdhä dädhëchä » in the Hän language) is a well-known feature of the Dawson City area in Yukon. Tourist websites explain how ...

The blunt reality that emerged early on in the coronavirus pandemic was that certain communities were hit particularly hard. In Little Pakistan, ...

An animated essay about a long-distance love story.

A tender look at three generations of motherhood and music in a bittersweet recollection of filmmaker Paolo Bitanga’s last Christmas with his ...

A Chicago couple pushes through the trials and tribulations of opening a business in the middle of a pandemic in a portrait of a Filipino ...

A girl is in love with a Palestinian boy and goes to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and the desire to take sides ...

Unjustly stuck behind bars for more than 20 years, Moath al Alwi builds elaborately detailed ships out of scrap materials from Guantanamo Bay.

When a group of marine biologists crash land in the Bermuda Triangle, they realize they have stumbled into the lost city of Atlantis. But they ...

Director Chad Sogas reflects on his juvenile rat tail and unravels an unexpected journey of self-healing from depression.

A poetic meditation on family and its interaction with incarceration.

With a stripped-down animation style and no-nonsense narration Not My Today explores suicide and one woman’s decision to change her mind.

A photographer who once saw the world in black and white discovers the world of color and, in turn, herself.

Two women—one Ashkenazi Jew from Poland and one Sephardic Jew from Algeria—meet in Brussels with the same quest: to find out what their Jewish ...

In isolation, we see the effects of light and darkness on the mind and body.

In 2017, Alaa moved to NYC after getting married in Egypt. Thinking back, he explores the relationship between immigration and fatherhood. What ...

Filmmaker Joan Churchill, who is being honored this year with DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award, collaborates with Alan Barker on this ...

An experienced Colombian journalist develops psychological illnesses after covering the earthquake in Haiti.

From a bunker on the roof of their communal Philadelphia row house, the militant Black revolutionaries of MOVE fight to protect their family and ...

Basketball is so popular with the Yi minority in Liangshan, that the center of town is not a park but a basketball court. Inspired by the Kobe ...

For over 40 years, legendary coach Neal Henderson has touched the lives of young people in the Washington, DC area through his youth team, the ...