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Philosopher René Schérer decides to do his ABCs and shares his indispensable utopian philosophy.

Suzy Cohen | 2011 | French | 72 min

26 lettres et un philosophe

The United States under the microscope: a series of fascinating yet impenetrable tableaux.

Jørgen Leth | 1982 | English | 42 min

66 Scenes from America

A semi-experimental meditation on the alienation caused by physical work.

Carl Valiquet | 2011 | 29 min

À bout de bras

A sober yet disturbing film about the trial of a young man charged with the brutal murder of his family.

Erik Silance | 2010 | French | 63 min

À charge et à décharge

An impressive examination of rhythm and the way it connects human beings with nature.

Tess Girard | 2010 | English | 52 min

A Simple Rhythm

An exploration, through the bond between a young autistic man and his therapist, into the foundations of human nature.

Ramòn Giger | 2010 | German | s.t. French, English | 77 min

A still jacket

Paris-Roubaix 1976: one of the greatest sports documentaries in history.

Jørgen Leth | 1977 | Danish | s.t. English | 111 min

A Sunday in Hell

An examination of the United States, with sublime visuals and a profound theme, in the aftermath of Obama’s election.
Ruth Beckermann | 2011 | English | s.t. French | 120 min

American Passages

A poetic gem, the film follows Armand—an overweight and effeminate teenager—from summer’s beginning to its end.
Blaise Harrison | 2011 | French | s.t. English | 50 min

Armand 15 ans l'été

Daily grind of a Russian army outpost stuck out in the Arctic wilderness, an absurd yet epic symbol of a fallen empire.
Michal Marczak | 2010 | Russian | s.t. English | 72 min

At the Edge of Russia

A close look at an old photograph brings back touching memories of an African childhood ended too soon.
Robert-Jan Lacombe | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 11 min

Au revoir Mandima

The cream of Icelandic pop-rock get together for a free, all-day concert in a musician’s backyard.

Árni Sveinsson | 2010 | s.t. English | 74 min

Backyard

Nine weeks of “classes” on a military base in Kentucky. A documentary that greatly inspired Full Metal Jacket.
Frederick Wiseman | 1971 | English | 89 min

BASIC TRAINING

Two Americans are arrested for a crime they haven’t yet committed. An unsettling political-judicial thriller.

Kelly Duane de la Vega , Katie Galloway | 2011 | English | 89 min

Better This World

A fascinating tour of one of the most astonishing private art collections in the world.
Clément Cogitore | 2011 | Russian | s.t. French | 36 min

Bielutine – Dans le jardin du temps

A tragic and marvellous tale of a puppet who’s larger than life, and his creator, afflicted with a serious cancer.
Res Balzli | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 78 min

Bouton

Wiseman explores the world of a Texas boxing club, a fascinating microcosm of the American melting pot.

Frederick Wiseman | 2010 | English | s.t. French | 91 min

BOXING GYM

In the company of a white griot, a filmmaker crosses Africa and shares her life-affirming encounters.
Catherine Hébert | 2011 | French, English | s.t. French | 94 min

Carnets d'un grand détour

A stirring biography, teeming with archival footage, of a man more inspiring than words: union leader Michel Chartrand.
Manuel Foglia | 2011 | French | 86 min

Chartrand le Malcommode

Backstage at the Crazy Horse, a Parisian cabaret offering the most beautiful strip show in the world. Wiseman’s most glamorous film.
Frederick Wiseman | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 134 min

CRAZY HORSE

In the depths of Death Valley, 35 people have taken up residence. Nick Brandestini sets out to meet them and retrace this unique place’s history.
Nick Brandestini | 2011 | English | 88 min

Darwin

The way domestic violence is handled by the police and a women’s shelter in Tampa, Florida. Deeply moving.
Frederick Wiseman | 2001 | English | 196 min

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

A shockingly gritty and poetic foray into the disillusioned world of a California skate punk.

Tristan Patterson | 2011 | English | 74 min

Dragonslayer

The filmmaker’s father, stricken with Alzheimer’s, has decided to end his life. A meditative film about freedom of choice.
Carlo Guillermo Proto | 2011 | English, Spanish | s.t. English | 80 min

El Huaso

The confessions of an ex-assassin for a Mexican drug cartel form the basis of a radical new take on the talking-head documentary.
Gianfranco Rosi | 2010 | Spanish | s.t. French | 84 min

El Sicario, Room 164

A clear-headed, intelligent portrait of the night watchman at the narco-cemetery in Culiacán, Mexico.
Natalia Almada | 2011 | Spanish | s.t. French | 72 min

El Velador

A vibrant and moving excursion through the streets of Port-au-Prince with poet Dominique Batraville.

Aïda Maigre–Touchet | 2011 | French | s.t. French | 11 min

Élégie de Port–au–Prince

A terrifying film of great humanity on the mass production hell of industrial slaughterhouses.
Manuela Fresil | 2011 | French | 60 min

Entrée du personnel

A study of the female body and erotic obsession in one of Jørgen Leth’s most personal films.
Jørgen Leth | 2010 | Danish, English, Portuguese | s.t. English | 90 min

EROTIC MAN

Anne, an angelic little blond-haired girl of 11, has Tourette syndrome.
Catherine Van Campen | 2010 | s.t. English | 21 min

Flying Anne

The life of an illegal fortune teller. A scathing testament to the cast-offs China’s capitalist development has left behind.
Xu Tong | 2010 | Mandarin | s.t. English | 132 min

Fortune Teller

A moving, anonymous film that recreates the Iranian Green Revolution using demonstrators’ YouTube videos.
Anonyme | 2011 | Persian | s.t. French | 55 min

Fragments d'une révolution

The end result of a process begun ten years earlier by Jørgen Leth with The Perfect Human.

Jørgen Leth | 1975 | Danish | s.t. English | 76 min

Good and Evil

Poetic and sensual documentary about the chaotic Haiti of the 1990s, shot over ten years.
Jørgen Leth | 1996 | English, French | s.t. English | 82 min

Haïti. Untitled

Portrait of the old extras on a film set. A poetic and heartfelt ode to the people in the shadows.

Andrea Bussmann | 2011 | Spanish | s.t. English | 40 min

He whose face gives no light

In a white, middle-class high school in Philadelphia, education focuses mainly on transmitting a value system.
Frederick Wiseman | 1968 | English | 75 min

High School

The painful life of a Czech woman, victim of both Nazism and Stalinism.

Helena Treštíková | 2001 | Czech | s.t. English | 56 min

Hitler, Stalin and I

Through the tragicomic story of two brothers, Israeli Robby Elmaliah denounces the absurdity of war.
Robby Elmaliah | 2010 | Hebrew | s.t. English | 55 min

Hula and Natan

A fascinating portrait of what goes on behind closed doors at the Milan international airport.
Massimo D'Anolfi , Martina Parenti | 2011 | Italian, English, Spanish | s.t. French | 90 min

Il Castello

A profound and poetic ode to life told through an encounter with two unforgettable Kurdish women.
Alexei Jankowski , Alexander Sokourov | 2010 | Russian | s.t. French | 52 min

Il nous faut du bonheur

Did Colombia’s Peace and Justice Law, intended to find out the truth behind civilian massacres, guarantee impunity for the perpetrators?

Juan José Lozano , Hollman Morris | 2010 | Spanish | s.t. English | 85 min

IMPUNIDAD

Unvarnished account of the downward spiral of a Montreal porn actress who contracts HIV on set.

Mia Donovan | 2011 | English | s.t. French | 77 min

Inside Lara Roxx

After the Kosovo war, Ivan and Ivana want to rebuild their life in California, but the American Dream can be a cruel mirage.

Jeff Silva | 2011 | English | s.t. English | 89 min

Ivan & Ivana

A touching portrait of the great Saramago, and an unforgettable love story.
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes | 2010 | Portuguese, Spanish | s.t. English | 125 min

José e Pilar

At the Memphis Juvenile Court, the judge and his team handle difficult, often tragic cases.
Frederick Wiseman | 1973 | English | 144 min

JUVENILE COURT

A major work on an indescribable tragedy that destroys a small Chinese community.
Xu Xin | 2010 | Mandarin | s.t. English | 356 min

Karamay

A gripping portrait, shot over 12 years, of the life of a drug addict.
Helena Treštíková | 2010 | Czech | s.t. English | 90 min

Katka

Shot in a group home for boys, a subtle film that metaphorically touches on childhood traumas.
Bettina Büttner | 2011 | German | s.t. French | 65 min

Kinder

Lyrical fresco tracing Vietnam’s colonial history using remarkable, never-before-seen archives. A superb film by Jacques Perrin.
Eric Deroo , Jacques Perrin | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 86 min

L'EMPIRE DU MILIEU DU SUD

An intelligent exploration of the consequences of developing an open-pit gold mine in Malartic, Abitibi.
Simon Plouffe | 2011 | French | s.t. English | 60 min

L'or des autres

The head of a nomadic clan goes through a crisis of faith in this miraculous film that defies categorization.

Jean-Charles Hue | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 84 min

La BM du Seigneur

A backstage look at the world’s greatest ballet troupe by one of our greatest filmmakers.
Frederick Wiseman | 2009 | French | s.t. English | 158 min

LA DANSE- LE BALLET DE L'OPÉRA DE PARIS

A radical Christian community at war against the Albertan oil and gas companies. Fanaticism or necessary eco-terrorism?

David York | 2011 | English | s.t. French | 93 min

La guerre de Wiebo

A journey as joyful as it is visionary in the company of the great artists and intellectuals of the mid-20th century.

Nicole Védrès | 1949 | French | 86 min

La vie commence demain

A police squad on the job in a down-and-out neighbourhood of Kansas City. A film worthy of an edge-of-your-seat detective series.
Frederick Wiseman | 1969 | English | 81 min

LAW AND ORDER

An unforgettable audio-visual trance on confronting fear, and the West’s unconscious.
Camille Henrot | 2011 | French | s.t. English | 11 min

LE SONGE DE POLIPHILE

Through hypnotic and silent tableaux, Johanne Fournier composes an impressionistic ode to the port of Matane.
Johanne Fournier | 2011 | French | 55 min

LE TEMPS QUE PRENNENT LES BATEAUX

Account of the human face of Mexican illegal immigration to the U.S. A successful first documentary!
Marie-Eve Tremblay | 2011 | Spanish, English | s.t. French | 80 min

Le voyage silencieux

Accompanied by Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi, a fascinating journey into the struggle for African independence and unity.
Yanick Létourneau | 2011 | French, English | s.t. French | 75 min

Les États–Unis d'Afrique

The life of an Egyptian icon, retold with a poetic edit of her VHS movie archives.
Rania Stephan | 2011 | Arabic | s.t. French | 70 min

Les trois disparitions de Soad Hosni

The life of Czech actress Lída Baarová, famous for having been Goebbels’ mistress.
Helena Treštíková | 1995 | Czech | s.t. English | 30 min

Lida Baarova's Bittersweet Memories

Providing a voice-over for the Super 8 images he himself captured in 1989, David Blackall retells the bloody history of Kashmir, a region on the…
David Blackall | 2011 | English | 23 min

Lost Innocents of Kashmir

Using stylistically reworked home movies, the filmmaker follows a thread in the life of her family, haunted by the death of Gaétan.
Claudie Lévesque | 2011 | French | 28 min

Ma famille en 17 bobines

Portrait shot over 26 years of Marcela, an ordinary woman with a wretched life marked by grief and loneliness.
Helena Treštíková | 2006 | Czech | s.t. English | 82 min

Marcela

Twenty years after their wedding, Ivana and Vaclav have had to give up many of their dreams of happiness.
Helena Treštíková | 2006 | Czech | s.t. English | 57 min

MARRIAGE STORIES 20 YEARS LATER: IVANA AND VÁCLAV

The first seven years of married life of a young Czech couple, full of optimism and obstacles.

Helena Treštíková | 1987 | Czech | s.t. English | 38 min

MARRIAGE STORIES: IVANA AND VÁCLAV

A captivating work about the process of standardizing beauty, shot at a New York model agency.
Frederick Wiseman | 1980 | English | 129 min

Model

Switching between animation and interviews, filmmaker Danic Champoux traces the evolution of his boyhood idols, the Hells Angels.

Danic Champoux | 2011 | French | 52 min

Mom et moi

The first exploitation documentary, showing various shocking, bizarre and perverse cultural practices from around the world.
Paolo Cavara , Gualtiero Jacopetti , Franco Prosperi | 1961 | English | 105 min

Mondo cane

A lone tennis player and a novel experiment on representing the body in motion.

Jørgen Leth | 1970 | s.t. English | 20 min

Motion Picture

A moving portrait of a book-loving garbageman from Kurdistan and a country immobilized by traditions and taboos.
Loghman Khaledi | 2011 | s.t. English | 58 min

Moving Up

Two women leave prison, but for what freedom? A difficult but necessary film on the failure of the prison system.
Diana Näcke | 2011 | German | s.t. English | 85 min

My Freedom, Your Freedom

United States, the sequel. Twenty years after 66 Scenes from America, a new series of tableaux form a more nostalgic vision of American…

Jørgen Leth | 2002 | English | s.t. English | 35 min

New scenes from america

The troubled love story of two young heroin addicts caught between a search for the absolute and the fear of pervasive death.
Laure Cottin | 2010 | French, English | s.t. English | 29 min

No blood in my body

A handful of Marseille students immerse themselves in La Princesse de Clèves and, in the process, discover themselves.

Régis Sauder | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 69 min

Nous, Princesses de Clèves

A heart-rending journey, justly acclaimed at the Sundance Festival, in the company of two Polish teenagers abandoned by their mother in childhood.
Jakub Stozek | 2010 | Polish | s.t. English | 30 min

Out of reach

The West Memphis 3 case, in which teenagers wrongly accused of murder were imprisoned for 18 years. Not to be missed.
Joe Berlinger , Bruce Sinofsky | 2011 | English | 122 min

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

A fascinating social portrait of modern Indonesia—and IDFA and Sundance award winner—made sublime by virtuoso camera work.
Leonard Retel Helmrich | 2010 | s.t. English | 109 min

Position Among the Stars

In an animal research centre, scientists observe monkeys. Wiseman observes the scientists. Disturbing.

Frederick Wiseman | 1974 | English | 105 min

Primate

The filmmaker meets with two of the terrorists responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings in a unique and terrifying document.
Daniel Rudi Haryanto | 2010 | s.t. English | 93 min

Prison and Paradise

A tragic and marvellous tale of a puppet who’s larger than life, and his creator, afflicted with a serious cancer.

Res Balzli | 2010 | French | s.t. English | 78 min

Prix du public: Bouton

A dark and merciless fiction-doc on the apathy of a certain America. In Baltimore, dreams are no longer allowed.
Matthew Porterfield | 2010 | English | s.t. French | 87 min

Putty Hill

For three years, Sylvain George observed the living conditions of Calais’s undocumented migrants. A gripping documentary fuelled by a genuine…
Sylvain George | 2010 | French, English, Pashto | s.t. French | 154 min

Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerres)

With sincerity and indignation, Richard Lavoie examines the disastrous state of the docks in many Quebec villages.
Richard Lavoie | 2011 | French | 91 min

Quais–Blues

A plea to save one of the last temperate rainforests in the world, on Vancouver Island.
Richard Boyce | 2011 | English | 65 min

RAINFOREST

The poetic portrait, overflowing with life, of a one-time Georgian wrestling champ.
Audrius Stonys | 2011 | Georgian | s.t. English | 58 min

Ramin

For 20 years, the director filmed an intelligent and rebellious Czech delinquent. Deeply moving.
Helena Treštíková | 2008 | Czech | s.t. English | 83 min

René

A breathtakingly suspenseful documentary thriller on the enigma of some mysterious urban plaques, all bearing the same cryptic message.
Jon Foy | 2011 | English | 85 min

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES

A moving, uncompromising inside look, in the tradition of Direct Cinema, at the aftermath of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution.

Elyes Baccar | 2011 | Arabic | s.t. English | 94 min

ROUGE PAROLE

| 120 min

Salut, Richard Leacock !

The elderly performer of the Sira, an Arab epic poem, attempts to transfer his knowledge to his grandson.

Sandra Gysi , Ahmed Abdel Mohsen | 2011 | Arabic | s.t. French | 77 min

Sira – Chanson du croissant de lune

An Argentinian tribe lives out its final year before exile in the city. An astonishing visual poem.
Thomas Heise | 2011 | 100 min

Solar System

A historian’s investigation into a 1961 assassination in the Congo. A powerful reflection on historical writing.
Sven Augustijnen | 2011 | French | s.t. English | 104 min

Spectres

An immersion into the heart of the Egyptian revolution by a gifted filmmaker. Unforgettable.
Stefano Savona | 2011 | Arabic | s.t. French | 91 min

TAHRIR, Place de la Libération

In the south of Belize, a farmer grows cacao as the ancient Mayans did. A lament on cultural extinction.
Rohan Fernando | 2010 | English | s.t. French | 71 min

Terre et chocolat

A sublime and poetic work on the soul of the Sahrawi people.
Pierre–Yves Vandeweerd | 2011 | Arabic | s.t. French | 84 min

Territoire Perdu

A son takes his father back to his native Benin after a 40-year absence in a moving diary with universal impact.
Santiago A. Zannou | 2011 | Spanish | s.t. English | 70 min

The Door of No Return

Deconstruction of Flaherty’s Louisiana Story via YouTube videos documenting 2010’s oil spill.
Lech Kowalski | 2011 | English | s.t. French | 64 min

The End Of The World Begins With One Lie

At the request of Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth remakes The Perfect Human five times according to absurd rules.
Jørgen Leth , Lars von Trier | 2003 | Danish, English, French, Spanish | s.t. English | 87 min

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS

Essay film of rare scope and intelligence on the excesses of world capitalism.
Noël Burch , Allan Sekula | 2010 | English, Mandarin, Spanish | s.t. English | 113 min

The Forgotten Space

A playful essay on optimism, featuring Paul Ahmarani as a cynic, a resuscitated Sartre and an assortment of modern artists and thinkers.
Jim Brown , Gary Burns | 2011 | English | s.t. French | 92 min

The Future is Now!

A buffalo hunt draws tourists and serves as fodder for a brilliant examination of American mythology.
Lee Anne Schmitt | 2011 | English | 76 min

The Last Buffalo Hunt

A beautiful self-portrait of Charlotte Rampling. An intelligent reflection, free of taboos, on the actress’s craft.
Angelina Maccarone | 2011 | English, French | s.t. English | 94 min

THE LOOK

A man. A woman. A white room. A sensational early work by Jørgen Leth.

Jørgen Leth | 1968 | Danish | s.t. English | 13 min

The Perfect Human

Poetic and impressionistic, this film celebrates the courage of the men and women who rebuilt their village, razed during El Salvador’s civil war.
Tatiana Huezo | 2011 | Spanish | s.t. English | 104 min

The Tiniest place

A chronicle of the disappearance of an authentically Chinese way of life as seen by a grandmother in her twilight years.
Xun Yu | 2011 | Mandarin | s.t. English | 113 min

The Vanishing Spring Light

The horrifying daily lives of the inmates of Bridgewater, a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane.
Frederick Wiseman | 1967 | English | 84 min

TITICUT FOLLIES

Marcel Carrière | 120 min

Tribute Screening Prix Albert Tessier: Marcel Carrière

An unforgettable poem on a doomed town’s dying days, and a grandmother’s determination to stay.
Tom Fassaert | 2011 | s.t. French | 76 min

Un Ange à Doel

Poetry as the only possible response to Haiti’s drama. Somewhere between the rage and the despair, hope shines through once more.
Charles Najman | 2011 | French | s.t. French | 77 min

Une étrange cathédrale dans la graisse des ténèbres

In a detention centre for asylum seekers in Switzerland, residents live in daily fear of expulsion.
Fernand Melgar | 2011 | French | s.t. English | 100 min

Vol spécial

A wall, an apprentice mason and a first-time documentarist: the unlikely ingredients of a playful reflection on artistic creation.
Bill Stone | 2011 | English | 124 min

Work in Progress

A magnificent portrait, sensitive and pictorial, of young Argentinian cartoneros. A true cinematic masterpiece.
Hermes Paralluelo | 2011 | Spanish | s.t. English | 99 min

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