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...

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.

When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.

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

A day in the life of a train station.

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

Eldest son Lance, of the Loud family profiled on PBS in 1973, became the first openly gay man on television and a gay icon for his generation. When...

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...

A couple in a long-distance relationship reunite for a road trip through Sri Lanka. Things go awry.

Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of...

Sitting Idle (2021) is a meandering, meditative visual poem that follows the life of a nameless character over the course of a year - as he traverses...

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional...

In 1968, Billy and Antoinette Edwards participated in a landmark documentary that would intimately observe their turbulent relationship. Over 50...

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...

Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

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

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind in which he is caught.

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their homeland.

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