Cinema Verite Movies

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

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

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

An intimate study of Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. Isolated from...

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

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

Musician, octogenarian and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland and his wife navigate the implications of the former’s dementia...

A day in the life of a train station.

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...

Based on the eponymous novel by Ciro Alegría. An indigenous community living their day-to-day and their relationship with nature. They can be...

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

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...

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

A person desperately searches for their lost little brother during a Memorial Day festival in this one take POV thriller