Faces of November

Primary

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use

1960

Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Thi

1938

Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty

Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Whe

1938

Moscow Calling

The animated corpse of Moscow goes on after its inhabitants left. Filled with weeps and whispers of the mourning ghosts, torn apart with phone calls f

2022

Marjoe

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the s

1972

I Be Done Been Was Is

A documentary about four African-American comediennes set in 1984. Restored in 2021 by the Academy Film Archive. 

1983

Chicken Real

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilariou

1970

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, ar

1997

The Scars

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

2019

A Body Exploded into a Thousand Pieces

A life marked by wandering. A character that leaves no traces or maps to trace. The file does not give an account of him. His works had no scripts and

2020

Kolkata

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city

2005

Hoop Dreams

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High Schoo

1994

The Song of the Years to Come

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present co

2024

The Views From Sunset Hill

My debut short film - as I approached adulthood, I created this as a means of reflection towards adolescence and life. A poetic documentary about look

2024

A Funeral of a Metropolitan in Bitola

Balkan actuality.

1905

Naqoyqatsi

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

2002

Half Elf

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic c

2020

Dief!

This documentary short is a portrait of Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and 13th prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker (1895-

1981

Powaqqatsi

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

1988

Baraka

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

1992