Hollywood Documentary Movies

After a traumatic encounter shatters a young director’s relationship with men, she stages a casting call as an experiment—using performance, observation, and dark humour to interrogate masculinity and her proximity to it.

She was a prisoner in the corset of social constraints and conventions – and at the same time she fought for a self-determined life as a woman – Lydia Welti-Escher, the daughter of politician and business leader Alfred Escher. Due to an extramarital liaison, the Swiss authorities had her committed to a psychiatric ward.

The beloved comedian Simo Salminen began his career as a National Championship level diver in the 1950s. Entertainment was an integral part of his sporting life, and Salminen began performing clown dives in a clown costume to the delight of children. The short film Simo Was Here takes the now elderly Salminen back to the Helsinki Swimming Stadium and illustrates his memories of the good old days. This nostalgic work is dedicated to the memory of Salminen, who passed away in 2015.

In GASLIT, award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda embarks on a road trip through Texas oil fields and Gulf Coast communities, meeting the people who are fighting back against the oil and gas extraction boom. This boom, which has led to the United States becoming the world’s biggest liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter, is also fueling a massive expansion of plastics production, as fossil fuel companies double down on petrochemicals to secure their future. These are the stories of the shrimpers, cattle ranchers, former oil workers, families, members of faith communities, community organizers, self-described “reluctant activists”, and people across political and cultural spectrums who have come together in defense of the communities and coastlines they love. Join Fonda as she travels across Texas and Louisiana bearing witness to the decades-long struggle between fossil fuel profiteering and the lives of everyday people.

A passionate hotel manager is obsessed with a clairvoyant's claim that he is to blame for the unexplained fire at his legendary grand hotel. To free himself from this burden, he teams up with an astute detective inspector to expose a former employee as the arsonist. This unexpectedly puts him at the centre of the investigation – and he must face the truth.

The story of a man who turned Ukrainian dance into an explosion of emotion and energy, Pavlo Virsky. The legendary Virsky Ensemble conquered stages from Paris to Tokyo, received standing ovations in the world's most prestigious halls, and made audiences applaud while standing. Virtuoso performances, from dizzying hopaks to complex multi-figure compositions, have become the benchmark of mastery that no one has yet surpassed.

A map of Gaza, its towns, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black ground. Within the crudely drawn outlines, nine refugees who escaped the inferno tell their stories.

A young filmmaker is determined to know her neighbours in the port town of Folkestone. But in the aftermath of Brexit, building new relationships isn’t easy.

A devoted soldier of the Taliban's ideology that has shaped his destiny since birth, Samim (23) struggles between the alluring promises of martyrdom and the mundanity of his daily existence as a husband and farmer. Samim's younger brother, Rafi (14), idolizes his big brother as he navigates the confusion of adolescence, leaving behind playfulness to enter a world shaped by decades of military intervention and resulting radicalization.

Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.

From its origins on the political fringes to representation on local councils and in Westminster, she asks whether Reform UK is ready to be a party of government. Featuring interviews with leading members of the party, the film explores how voter dissatisfaction is reshaping Britain’s political landscape.

stop motion photography in y/d square, toronto. flickered and transformed using processing. produced song from chopped samples made in fl studio. title: rainway (extended interlude).

In the small city of Maastricht, alongside the vibrant student youth, there is an everlasting need for safe spaces of expression that encapsulate the local alternative interests and identities. Home to a lively and cozy counter-hegemonic community, The B is a squat that allows for different artistic, political, communal and sentimental expression through collective events and gatherings.

An engaging and thought-provoking look at Lucy Letby, the former nurse serving life in prison after being convicted of the murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of seven others.

On the night of December 3, 2024, South Korea was thrown into chaos. What the public first heard as "an insurrection" quickly became one of the most polarising political events in modern Korean history. This documentary revisits that night and asks a deeper question: Was it really a coup attempt or the result of a calculated political trap? Through interviews, legal analysis, and evidence, the film investigates the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol and the rapid collapse of his administration. It explores claims that an overwhelming opposition majority, built through alleged election manipulation, enabled a form of "legislative dictatorship" that mirrored the path that led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment eight years earlier.

An autobiography of Polish artist Malga Kubiak in praise of everything aesthetically in your face, confrontational, against the grist of good bourgeois taste and sense – punk camp trash, tacky, cheesy, cheap and maybe even treacly. An epic ego trip which turns one person’s experience into a tale of many.