Cinema Verite Movies

On the heels of a tragedy and the COVID-19 pandemic, a Dallas-based theatre troupe comprised of people with intellectual and developmental...

Columbus, Ohio born filmmaker Renton Hinderer explores his hometown through the eyes of its residents, weaving together dozens of stories to reveal...

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

After living in Denmark for 38 years, Francisco has decided to move back to his homeland, the Philippines—a country he feels he has never...

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

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

In Fairy Creek, director Jen Muranetz documents the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, creating a searing portrait of...

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

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...

A documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the...

"Mother" stands out on the front of her black t-shirt, "Fucker" on the back. And as angrily as these words sound when combined into a curse, is how...

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

"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...

Chronicles the events that lead to Charlie Charlison's untimely death employing a cinéma vérité approach.

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

Have you ever been to the bullfights in Tijuana? Larry Wessel's TAUROBOLIUM is not only cinema verite at it's best, Larry Wessel's TAUROBOLIUM is...

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

From afar, the suburban lifestyle may appear as a sort of utopia; but be sure to gaze beyond the veil, for dire horrors and troubled intimacies will...

A group of artists set out on a quest of organising their own biennale in Istanbul.

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