Observational Cinema Movies

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

In a near future shaped by a five-degree rise in global temperature, Raj moves through a flooded Singapore, his body already showing signs of...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

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

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

A construction of obscured VHS footage. A distortion of childhood memories.

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.

The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer...

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

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

Reya’s World delves into the raw and poignant struggle of a young woman navigating the depths of depression. Feeling trapped in a seemingly...

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

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

Udin, a young boy, drifts through his quiet routines inside an old bus yet within him he carries a world far heavier than his years.

A quasi-documentary look at how certain things fit together. This film embraces an unhurried tempo.

A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...