Movies: Poetic documentary

The camera floats quietly to capture the beauty that emerges from the mundane. Accompanied by Ryuichi Sakamoto's composition, Arseny Tarkovsky's poem celebrates life....

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A poetic documentary which explores the relationship between a person and their past, the autistic experience and the teenage sense of self....

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A poetic short film showing a day in the 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile through documentary images....

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 only existed in the fugacity of the moment. Jorge Bonino was an unclassifiable artist. He triumphed...

What is a film if not a therapeutic act? Wa(te)r is a poetiс reflection on my 2022–2023 diary entries, poured from one medium to another. I uncovered countless water metaphors intertwined with life and death throughout these entries. I often revisit...

Through an unsent letter, the author travels through time and recalls moments when love affected him intensely. Evocative images explore how pain and beauty intertwine with maturity on a journey guided by childhood friends, political disappointments,...

One filmmaker's exploration of natural light in California and its influence on people's lives....

A short documentary that discusses gender and reconciling with the past....

Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in the dusk of USSR....

Ibuka follows Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple, at the very beginning of the civil war and the massacres that swept through Rwanda in 1994. Living in Kigali, the national capital, these young parents make numerous attempts to escape the killin...

A day in a retirement home....

An experimental documentary on the Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Ireland, told through the myth of the banshee....

Utopian symbolic playgrounds from childhood memories are interconnected through sharp, flickering lights....

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The study of the artistic work and its relationship with the author generates reflections on the connection between the material and the spiritual. The Dance of Icarus is a poetic documentary that offers an open space for reflection, like a tribal da...

Don't try to understand it. With an experimental visual aesthetic, Ninin invites you to reflect on the fleetingness of existence and the ephemeral beauty of life....

A poetic documentary in which the narrator must grapple with the grief and emotions following the death of a close friend....