Hollywood Documentary Movies

Documentary celebrating 125 years of film in Zaragoza

In a heart touching documentary celebrating the 10 year anniversary of her bestselling first book, YouTube chef Maangchi cooks with her family, friends, and fans.

Oil extraction in the Amazon region is contaminating the land and water of a natural paradise. A slow process that threatens the health and traditional culture of local communities. Thirteen women raise their voices against the destruction of their land. Through protests and silent resistance, they confront an opaque global power structure.

Tartu, Estonia's second-largest city, is widely considered to be the intellectual centre of the country and was the European Capital of Culture in 2024. Reason enough to accompany writer-in-residence Katrin Groth at work. She offers in-depth insights into the history of both the city and Estonia, as well as German-Estonian relations.

Over 10,000 years ago, humans settled down. Is there still something like a nomadic gene in us? After numerous expeditions to parts of the world far from Europe, this question arises for the artist group Mangan25. Among other places, they followed in the footsteps of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in Australia and North America. Their encounters with indigenous peoples in these regions also reveal traumatic events and colonial upheavals.

In postwar Königsberg, displaced East Prussians and arriving Soviet settlers were forced to live side by side, bound by loss and survival. Through interviews, archives, and stage fragments, this documentary explores the fragile encounters across enemy lines.

A teenage girl holds the first ever vigil for pigs in front of a slaughterhouse – in a country that kills 53 million pigs on a yearly basis. Her view changes drastically.

In the barren Argentinian province of Salta, Alejandro Soriano's existence is a tale of ancestors, land and family. In everyday life and poetry, he searches for ways to connect tradition and future.

The sea ice in the Arctic could potentially disappear by 2050. The traditions of Greenland's Inuits are already changing. We are witnesses to Sikoqqinngisaannassooq – a future without sea ice.

In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.

In Paris, at an exhibition on the French writer, photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), Jean-Henri Cabrera thinks he sees himself in a specific shot of the short film La Jetée, directed by Marker in 1962.

Around ten teenagers live in a world where anyone can be whoever they want and create any story they wish. Amidst the pitch-black night of Lisan City, Alstroemeria Forest, and Ashua Island, their imagined stories flow through myriad choices, seeking out faint glimmers of light.

Kim Hee-gap is a legendary composer who has written over 3,000 popular songs in South Korea, including Leopards of Kilimanjaro and Nostalgia. A documentary about his life, shot from 2014 until now, showcases the history of K-pop music. These songs are essential to our lives, and their stories live on.