Direct Cinema Movies

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in...

After the death of her adoptive father, a young filmmaker delves into his video archives only to realize that she never filmed him—except once,...

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings....

A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to...

During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F....

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face...

After their hunger strike in Berlin's government district, 5 climate activists reunite. While Lina has joined the "Last Generation," her comrades...

A first look at Strobus / Banksiana: a musical and visual work supported by two important protagonists of the Quebec forest: the white pine and the...

Second part of collaborative project Brise-Glace. Directed by Titte Törnroth.

A group of young architects, confined to a forest in Barcelona during the COVID crisis, explore the problems generated by the ambition of wanting to...

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via...

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has become the dormitory town for the workers of a...

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the...

"This film is one of the first French Unit productions of the “Société Nouvelle/Challenge for Change” program. When an old...