Experimental Documentary Movies

'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway...

A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens...

An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan.

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

A documentary about a person who cleans his room with a vacuum cleaner, filled with disasters and mishaps.

Istanbul: Chronopolis is an experimental documentary that explores the city as a living organism where the linear flow of time is disrupted and the...

In this experimental documentary, a comedian’s break-up leads her to a surprising journey with a community of LARPers.

Do we still know the grotesque when we see it? Muniz Sodré and Raquel Paiva, two of Latin America's greatest thinkers in the field of...

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his...

I look around and observe the landscape. I let myself go because that's all I have left: to listen, to look, to sleep, perhaps to dream. The rattle...

Set against the vibrant spectacle of the jaripeo, a symbol of Mexican cowboy tradition and machismo, this story unveils a hidden world of queer...

A celebration of home and belonging in South London. This is a film that tows the line between documentary and narrative, and celebrates neighborhood...

Filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark interrogates their response to a transphobic slur hurled at them following their move to Berlin. Exploring the root...

Filmed throughout Ukraine just months before the full-scale Russian invasion, this vérité visual ethnography explores the overlaps of...

This short documentary explores the intimate and unconventional life of my grandmother and her relationship with magic and with the love of her life....

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

They pass each other everyday, obscured by the crowds. They will always be there, always crossing paths, alone.

CIRCA is a call-to-action to the world from the children of Miami-Dade County. Being ground zero for the effects of climate change, the film shares...

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still...

The Post(?) Feminist Dissonance Project uses a quote by Kathleen Hanna as a prompt, a voicemail box as an interviewing device, found footage as a...