Observational Cinema Movies

"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera...

Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

Nearly thirty years after making his surrealist La Formula Secreta, director Rubén Gámez returned to filmmaking with this...

The personal collaboration between Kiran Acharya and Clint Mansell is an early combination of documentary film and augmented reality.

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

Daily life in a Benedictine monastery follows resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of...

Follow the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and glimpse into both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies...

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and...

A tender moment between a woman and her grandchild.

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.

What really happens inside the walls of an American high school? Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman answers that question in this peek inside...

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

A sole bird sits atop a spire, observing those around them.

A boy stands in a field, flying his kite.

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.

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

A construction of obscured VHS footage. A distortion of childhood memories.

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

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...