Observational Cinema Movies

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

On the 43rd day the rain ceases to subside.

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

A tender moment between a woman and her grandchild.

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

Udin, a young boy, drifts through his quiet routines inside an old bus yet within him he carries a world far heavier than his years.

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

An observational peice about an individuals connection to the sport of climbing, showing their expericence.

Nai Nai follows the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother, Chu-Ming Wu. Known as “Nai Nai,” Chu-Ming has always been a woman of...

A quasi-documentary look at how certain things fit together. This film embraces an unhurried tempo.

The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer...

In a near future shaped by a five-degree rise in global temperature, Raj moves through a flooded Singapore, his body already showing signs of...

Sean Dunne's observational documentary of a 2016 Donald Trump Rally.

A nighttime montage of strangers drifting through the city, People Like Ghosts is an experimental visual poem exploring modern isolation, silent...

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

Reya’s World delves into the raw and poignant struggle of a young woman navigating the depths of depression. Feeling trapped in a seemingly...