Cinema Verite Movies

"LIDA" takes place on the day of Lida's 70th birthday. This already special day is made more unusual by the recent arrival of her grandson, Lev, who...

While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a...

Filmed over five weeks at the Warrendale residential treatment center near Toronto, "Warrendale" observes twelve emotionally disturbed children and...

Struggling to survive on the margins of society, two outcasts manage to build a beautiful friendship as they face loss and hardship.

A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.

Todd, an artistic, sensitive teenager, finds himself at odds with his controlling family as they struggle to care for his dying grandmother....

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

The deeply socially engaged documentary filmmaker Frans Buyens had long dreamed of making the transition to fiction filmmaking. The experimental...

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

Four years after Pour la suite du monde (1963), director Pierre Perrault asks Alexis Tremblay if he'll agree to travel with his wife Marie to the...

Oum Karim, a 60-year-old Beiruti lady, is used to preparing Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie) once per week.

Saucedo explores the emotional journey of boxing champion Alex Saucedo who suffers a career ending brain injury, forcing him to redefine his...

In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a thousand hopeful African...

A chronicle of the lives and testimonies of men living on New York’s Bowery. One of the earliest documentary style "street tapes" created with...

Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping...

Columbus, Ohio born filmmaker Renton Hinderer explores his hometown through the eyes of its residents, weaving together dozens of stories to reveal...

A day in the life of a train station.

As dawn breaks over Taipei, a whole world comes to life around the Luzhou temple night market, only to be dismantled by sunrise. In COME HUNGRY,...

A stylish exploration of funeral car history, sub-culture, and outrageous reactions.