Movies genre: Documentary

In 1941, in German-occupied Warsaw, soon after the creation of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto by the Nazis, a Polish amateur 8mm camera enthusiast shot a remarkable 10-minute film from both sides of the Ghetto walls.

The film explores the deeply contradictory nature of love in the family life. Dobrin is waiting to happen a miracle for Denisa, his younger daughter, to get up from the wheelchair and walk.

Marculesti, Moldova was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Years later, few speak clearly or honestly about what happened.

The film includes two parts: a first part tends to fully reconstruct a day in the life of the village, and the second part reconstructs a series of events related to the social life of the village.

1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?

Launched on the date of what should've been the first day of this year's Electric Castle, No Festival is the documented story of an intimate experience created as a metaphor that marks the state of an industry deeply impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. 3 of the most beloved Romanian bands for the first time on the same stage. Apart and together. A concert for no one. A concert for everyone.

An eye-opening documentary about the true cost of living in the wireless age.

One year in the life of Albin and his family of shepherds in the North of Transylvania, their day to day routines, and their attempts to adapt to a new world where traditions are gradually replaced by modern values.

Two young Romanian women make money as models on an erotic video chat site. All while they try to lead normal family lives, get along with their parents, and raise children. This observational documentary captures exactly this - their private space. The filmmakers let them speak freely about not only their jobs, but also how they themselves see their lives. At the same time, they show how a publicly condemned profession influences people's behavior and their view of the world. The film also presents dramatic generational differences in contemporary Romanian society in which the older generation, working in agriculture, wants their children to remain at home while the younger one seems to be moving continuously to the bigger cities, leaving behind their past.—Bernardo74

A Michael Apted documentary that honors the artisans and craft of still and motion photography and in particular the glass that captures it all.

A glimpse at the daily lives of patients in a Romanian psychiatric hospital.

While people in Western Europe were used to choose between hundreds of brands, the communist Romanian used to have a different experience: all our life we lived with only one brand for each basic product. Imagine the importance that this 'mono-brands' could acquire for the lives of those who made them and for the lives of those who consumed them. A love story between man and object.—Anonymous

Live recording of a Cirgue du Soleil's 32nd production combining story telling acrobatics with opera, inspired by William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

OLANDA tells the story of mushroom pickers who, in the summer and autumn months head, to the southern Carpathians of Romania to begin their search. The film takes a look at the coexistence of a temporary community over a whole season and uses the rhizomatic structure of the fungus itself to describe a precarious sociopolitical structure in which the smaller and the larger stories, the different motivations and circumstances of the protagonists cross paths and connect again and again.

The Miami-Dade Community Mental Health Project comes to life in this documentary, following a team of dedicated public servants working through the courts to steer people with mental illness on a path from incarceration to recovery.

As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood. As Vivian seeks to understand the lasting effects of this tragedy on her family and community, she uncovers a story of injustice, survival and hope that resonates deeply in cities today.

Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer debuted, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aide of analog machines. The design and print industries used a variety of ways to get type and image onto film, plates, and finally to the printed page. Graphic Means is a journey through this transformative Mad Men-era of pre-digital design production to the advent of the desktop computer. It explores the methods, tools, and evolving social roles that gave rise to the graphic design industry as we know it today.

An extravagant odyssey from Communism to Capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romania's most charismatic symbols, the Dacia automobile.

Diego Maradona is one of the best football player ever. An important moment of his life is the passage to the italian soccer team, Napoli.

During the Vietnam War, US Air Force pilots who flew 100 combat missions could go home. The tension built relentlessly as they survived each sortie. This is the story of the survivors and the fallen.

Cable technicians in Eastern Europe navigate a modern-day Tower of Babel. With unflappable humour and a dose of philosophy, the technicians hold the line in a dissonant world.

'Shade Grown Coffee' is the inspiring story about how growing coffee in the shade of native trees in the tropics can have a truly positive impact on local communities, halt deforestation and protect critical habitat for wildlife.

Baile Herculane is one of the oldest resorts in Europe and the place where only a few centuries ago kings and queens were swimming in the healing waters. Relu, Mitica and Gelu are three masseurs, who serve as our tour guides through this magical maze of an Eastern European 'Garden of Eden'.

A documentary about the Jewish people in Romania and their several migrations towards Israel, across history and changing political frames - everything presented in a self-proclaimed dadaist style.

It is about how he becomes a billionaire.

15 years after being stripped of an Olympic gymnastics medal for failing a drug test as a teenager, a now 31 year old Romanian sports announcer tries to reclaim it.

Along with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, Amazon is one of the Big Five companies in the US tech industry. It has become one of the most influential companies in the world. In 2018, it surpassed 100 million subscribers worldwide. It took someone like Jeff Bezos to build the revolutionary business. The American audacious entrepreneur, one of the worlds' richest business leaders...and founder of the giant tech company and world's largest marketplace. As of February 2021, he was reported to be the second-richest person in the world, with an estimated worth of $185 billion, after Elon Musk. Today, the impact of online retail is greater than it's ever been before. Amazon has defied the odds. After an extraordinary growth in size, influence and ambition, the multibillion-dollar empire revolutionised the industry. Jeff Bezos' successful journey is one of a young ambitious man who forever changed the way we buy just about everything, by growing a tiny business from his home garage into one of the world's most successful and influential company in modern history.

Craft Beer began with a group of restless home-brewers searching for something real and flavorful; it's become a global phenomenon of taste. That spirit of rebellion and innovation exists in two groups of home-brewers from Long Beach, California who will soon open their own breweries. With the help of iconic brewers Ken Grossman, Charlie Papazian, Vinnie Cilurzo, Sam Calagione, Jim Koch and others, the soul of craft beer is finally revealed.—Christo Brock