Observational Cinema Movies

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

Across the seasons, the film gives an account of life and work and the animals and visitors at Zurich Zoo, an institution that is one of the leading...

A mixture of documentary and fiction as seen through the eyes of a non-participant observer, this drama presents the life of the fisherman Maldonado....

Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-Ming has always been a woman of...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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