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The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 2013
Documentary
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
The sides of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
- Hayao Miyazaki at work on The Wind Rises
- A year inside Studio Ghibli
- Producer Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata
Good for you if
- you want to watch Miyazaki draw, grumble and doubt at his desk.
- you like a quiet, patient film about daily work.
- you love Ghibli films and want to see where they come from.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need drama or stakes to stay with a film.
About: work · creation · ageing
Sans Soleil 1983
Documentary
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
The sides of Sans Soleil
- Letters from an unseen traveller read aloud
- Tokyo streets, Guinea-Bissau and Iceland
- A meditation on time and memory
Good for you if
- you like a film that raises questions about memory and leaves them open.
- you like images of everyday life in faraway places.
- you like letting a narrator's thoughts drift over the pictures.
Bad for you if
- you find grainy 1980s footage dated.
- you need a story with characters, not an essay.
About: memory · time · travel · images
Faces Places 2017
Documentary
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
The sides of Faces Places
- Agnès Varda and the artist JR
- A photo truck across rural France
- Giant portraits pasted on walls, barns and containers
Good for you if
- you like an old filmmaker and a young artist becoming friends.
- you like a gentle road trip full of kind people.
- you like huge photos of farmers and dockers covering whole buildings.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to follow Varda and JR chatting in French.
- you need a story that goes somewhere fast.
About: friendship · old age · ordinary people · memory
The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Documentary
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
Good for you if
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
Honeyland 2019
Documentary
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
The sides of Honeyland
- Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
- Her old, bedridden mother
- A nomadic family moving in next door
Good for you if
- you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
- you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
- you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.
About: balance · solitude · greed
The Gleaners and I 2000
Documentary
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
The sides of The Gleaners and I
- Agnès Varda with a small digital camera
- People picking up what fields and markets leave behind
- Heart shaped potatoes
Good for you if
- you like meeting real people who live off what others throw away.
- you like Varda herself, filming her own hands and her own age.
- you want a gentle, curious film that wanders where it likes.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to hear Varda and the gleaners talk in French.
- you need momentum. Varda stops to film trucks on the road and a clock with no hands.
About: waste · ageing · what we keep
Burden of Dreams 1982
Documentary
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
The sides of Burden of Dreams
- Werner Herzog shooting Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon
- A steamboat pulled over a mountain
- A film crew facing accidents and delays
Good for you if
- you like watching a real film shoot slowly fall apart.
- you like the Peruvian jungle filmed up close.
- you like the sight of a whole steamboat hauled up a hill.
Bad for you if
- you find early 1980s footage dated.
- you need a film that moves faster than a jungle shoot.
About: obsession · filmmaking · nature
Jiro Dreams of Sushi 2011
Documentary
Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.
The sides of Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- A ten-seat sushi counter in a Tokyo subway station
- A chef of eighty-five still grading his own rice
- A son waiting to take over
Good for you if
- you like watching a real craftsman at work with no story added.
- you like eighty minutes of rice, tuna and repetition.
- you want to understand a father and the son who waits behind him.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles to hear a chef talk about rice.
- you want something at stake beyond the next plate of sushi.
About: mastery · fathers and sons · work
Life in a Day 2011
Documentary
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
The sides of Life in a Day
- One day, the 24th of July 2010
- Home videos sent from all over the world
- Births, breakfasts, work and goodbyes
Good for you if
- you like feeling how big and varied the world is in one day.
- you want ordinary people filming their own lives.
- you get moved by small moments from strangers.
Bad for you if
- you lose track when a film jumps between hundreds of strangers.
- you need momentum more than a gentle flow of moments.
About: daily life · humanity · time
The Five Obstructions 2003
Documentary
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.
The sides of The Five Obstructions
- Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
- Lars von Trier inventing the rules
- One remake made as a cartoon
Good for you if
- you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
- you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
- you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
- you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.
About: creativity · constraints · mentorship

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing 2004
Documentary
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
The sides of The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
- Film editors talking about their craft
- Clips from a century of movies
- The cut that changes a scene
Good for you if
- you like seeing how silent films and classics were put together.
- you like hearing real editors like Thelma Schoonmaker explain cuts you never noticed.
- you like going back to your favorite films to spot the cuts.
Bad for you if
- you want a documentary that grips like a thriller.
- you want to follow one person's story, not a parade of interviews.
About: filmmaking · craft · invisible work
Lost in Translation 2003
Película
Bob Harris y Charlotte son dos norteamericanos que se encuentran en Tokio. Bob es una estrella de cine de mediana edad que ha venido a rodar un anuncio. Charlotte es una mujer joven que acompaña a todas partes a su marido, un fanático del trabajo. Incapaces de dormir, los caminos de Bob y Charlotte se cruzan por casualidad y no tardará en nacer entre ellos una sorprendente amistad. Se aventuran juntos en la vida nocturna de Tokio, comparten inolvidables experiencias con los habitantes de la ciudad y terminan descubriendo una nueva manera de ver la vida.
Las caras de Lost in Translation
- Un actor y una joven sin dormir en Tokio
- Un bar de hotel
- Un susurro que nunca oyes
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película tranquila que va a la deriva como una noche sin dormir.
- te gusta una conexión que no necesita etiqueta.
- te gusta el humor seco e impasible de Bill Murray cuando las largas indicaciones de un director se traducen en una sola frase corta.
Mala para ti si
- quieres que pasen cosas. Pasa muy poco.
- necesitas una historia que lo ate todo. La semana de Bob y Charlotte en Tokio deja preguntas abiertas.
Temas: la soledad · la conexión · estar perdido
Side by Side 2012
Documentary
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
The sides of Side by Side
- Keanu Reeves interviewing directors
- Film stock against digital cameras
- Nolan, Lynch and Cameron on how they shoot
Good for you if
- you care about how every frame is shot.
- you like hearing Nolan, Lynch and Scorsese argue film versus digital.
- you want to know how cinema changed when the cameras did.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, not an hour and a half of camera talk.
- you want people and their story, not a debate about sensors.
About: craft · change · cinema
The Velvet Queen 2021
Documentary
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.
The sides of The Velvet Queen
- A wildlife photographer and a writer in Tibet
- Days of waiting in the cold
- The snow leopard, if it shows up
Good for you if
- you like yaks, foxes and wild cats on the Tibetan plateau.
- you like waiting hours in silence for one animal to appear.
- you like the feeling of a world that doesn't need us.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at poetic voiceover about man and the wild.
- you won't read subtitles for a film narrated in French.
About: patience · the wild · contemplation

A 1998
Documentary
Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.
The sides of A
- Inside the Aum Shinrikyo compounds after the sarin attack
- A young spokesman facing a hostile press
- Followers who stayed with the faith
Good for you if
- you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack.
- you like a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films.
- you can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for over two hours.
- you find 136 minutes of quiet observation too long.
About: faith · the media · guilt
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2010
Documentary
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
The sides of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
- A Siberian village on the Yenisei river
- Trappers working through a full year
- Dogs, snow and handmade skis
Good for you if
- you like the taiga through four seasons, from frozen rivers to summer mosquitoes.
- you like watching a trapper build a canoe or a trap at his own pace.
- you want a quiet film about people living off the land.
Bad for you if
- you need something to happen beyond the daily work.
- you won't read subtitles when the trappers speak Russian.
About: self-reliance · tradition · solitude
This Is Not a Film 2011
Documentary
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
The sides of This Is Not a Film
- A director banned from making films
- An apartment in Tehran under house arrest
- A film smuggled out inside a cake
Good for you if
- you want to see a ban on filmmaking from the inside.
- you care about Jafar Panahi defying a state that silenced him.
- you like a quiet day at home, phone calls and a pet iguana.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in Persian.
- you need clear answers, and this film leaves you unsure what is staged and how Panahi's appeal ends.
About: censorship · freedom · creation
David Lynch: The Art Life 2017
Documentary
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
The sides of David Lynch: The Art Life
- David Lynch talking while he paints
- A childhood in small town America
- Art school in a dark Philadelphia
Good for you if
- you love Lynch and want to see where his strangeness comes from.
- you like watching paintings take shape in his studio.
- you like a portrait of an artist before he became famous.
Bad for you if
- you want answers. Lynch tells his memories and leaves them unexplained.
- you need momentum, and long quiet shots of painting bore you.
About: art · childhood · becoming yourself

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film 2001
Documentary
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
The sides of Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
- Stanley Kubrick's life and films
- Interviews with Jack Nicholson and others who worked with him
- Home footage from his family
Good for you if
- you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.
- you want to know the man behind the legend from people who knew him.
- you care about how every Kubrick frame was built.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through almost two and a half hours of documentary.
- you need a story, not a career told in interviews.
About: obsession · creation · cinema
De Palma 2016
Documentary
An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.
The sides of De Palma
- Brian De Palma talking to the camera
- Clips from Carrie to Mission: Impossible
- Stories from Hollywood sets
Good for you if
- you like a director telling candid stories about his own films.
- you like a portrait of Brian De Palma the man, his family, his friends and his battles with studios.
- you like the thrillers of the 1970s and 1980s.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand the bloody clips from his films.
- you can't sit through two hours of one man talking.
About: filmmaking · ambition · Hollywood