Observational Cinema Movies

"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera...

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this...

Daily life in a Benedictine monastery follows resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of...

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

Tracing the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer goods, Frederick Wiseman's deep dive depicts the processing and transportation of...

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

“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and...

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

A tender moment between a woman and her grandchild.

Short experimental film that captures glimpses of everyday reality and, in this process, encourages the viewer to poetically observe these details.

A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding...

This film is an exercise in observational cinema and it's emotional effect on the viewer. Shot on iPhone 11 and completed within a two hour timeframe.

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and...

In March 2023, despite a flush of police raids and arrests in the struggle against Cop City in Atlanta, the Weelaunee Food Autonomy Festival gathered...

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.