Documentary

The film enters the universe of thoughts and evocations of Camilo, a teenager with a muscular disease, as he transitions into adulthood, taking the form of the thought process itself with its temporal drifts and reverie, crystallized in a film record of 16 years. 

Throughout the course of the Haida basketball season, leaders of iconic rez ball team the Skidegate Saints compete for two titles - defending their All Native Basketball Championship, while battling for title to their land and waters with the government that stole it from them with the Indian Act.

Edna O’Brien’s 1960 literary debut, The Country Girls, sparked serious controversy in Ireland. After moving to London, she led a vibrant life of star studded parties, love affairs, and fortune. Before she passed in 2024 at 93, her final testimony for filmmaker Sinéad O'Shea reflected on her extraordinary life.

Magos Herrera and Paola Prestini, two renowned international musicians, created a long-distance music strategy to build community and foster empathy in a time of uncertainty. From this collaboration, and with the participation of more than 30 outstanding musicians from different parts of the world, the album "Con Alma" was born. 

DIRTY HOLLYWOOD is one of two new documentaries about the untold history of Hollywood, world premiering at the festival as a double bill ... More About Dirty Hollywood -- From Scarface to Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather, Goodfellas, or Heat, gangster films have left their mark on cinema history. To make this film, real actors and directors are featured: Brian De Palma, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann. They all admit that real gangsters were their “spiritual and technical guides.” The new generation of actors reveal how they secretly met with these figures, and how legality and illegality blurred together on set.

Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film is a portrait of the iconic filmmaker as he describes his process of creating films. The 2007 documentary features an extended, intimate interview with Clint Eastwood, covering his life, his career as a director and actor, and his creative process. The documentary, which also incorporates personal archives, film clips, and his experiences with the Pacific War projects, showcases Eastwood's signature simplicity, humor, and humility as he discusses his journey in American cinema.

This cinematic exploration rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea -- the largest lake in California on the verge of ecological collapse with history of genocide, military testing, and exploitation, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality.

In 2017, THE ROSE built a millions-strong global fanbase as a breakout Korean indie rock band from the ruthless K-Pop system. Now, after a turbulent three-year hiatus, THE ROSE is making their comeback with an electrifying tour - on their own terms, with a focus on healing and mental health.

Kunsang Wangmo, known as “Mola” (grandmother) has been away from home for nearly 60 years. A Buddhist nun exiled from her native Tibet since 1959, Mola’s final wish is to return to Tibet to die near the paradise of her homeland. With her 100th birthday approaching, time is running out. 

The story of an undocumented student from Guatemala who overcomes language barriers, financial struggles, and the threat of deportation to pursue his dream of higher education in the United States, showcasing the transformative power of education and the resilience of the human spirit.

A musical coming of age story following the SoCal VoCals, an elite team of collegiate singers from the University of Southern California as they compete in the most prestigious a cappella tournament in the world. An intimate portrayal of those who sing to express their most authentic selves.

Following different Afro-Mexican musicians from the Costa Chica immerses us in the culture of the coast, paying tribute to its people, land, sea, city dwellers, and all that binds it to the countryside. A documentary that portrays musicians in their purest state, at the center of Mexico's musical identity.

In January 2025, filmmaker Ondi Timoner was overseas when the L.A. Fires of 2025 tore through her Altadena home, destroying everything—decades of archival footage, personal journals, equipment, and irreplaceable family memories. The first film ever made about these fires, ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN is an intimate short documentary that captures the aftermath of that loss and expands into a larger story of displacement, resilience, and the fight to save the town. As Timoner returns to recover what remains, she turns her lens outward—toward neighbors, many from long-established Black, Latino, and other communities of color who have called Altadena home for generations. These families now face not only the trauma of destruction, but increasing pressure from mortgage lenders, insurance companies, and opportunistic developers pushing them toward foreclosure or forced sales. What begins as a personal reckoning becomes a powerful portrait of a community under siege. A story of rupture and renewal, ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN reveals what remains when the physical structures of life disappear—and the healing that can happen through the power of connection with community, as Ondi, her family and neighbors fight to preserve not just homes, but history, identity, and belonging.

Once considered a "terrorist", Nelson Mandela saved his country from bloody civil war and dismantled the system of apartheid through the spirit of reconciliation. Witnesses give dramatic testimonials along with potent archival footage. Clint Eastwood, one of the film’s interviewees, sums it up simply: “The world needs leaders like him.”

A group of young men in Tucson, Arizona, are formed into the first youth Mariachi in the United States by an Irish Catholic Priest. Despite the Priest?s immoral conduct, they created a world-renowned Youth Mariachi Movement that endures, and sixty years later, the group continues being celebrated.

Woven entirely of archival material, this documentary focuses on the George H.W. Bush administration's hollow promise to fight climate change with the "White House Effect," culminating with the U.S. undermining a global agreement that could've changed the polarizing future we all face today.

Through rich, personal stories, vivid archival footage, and a deep exploration of how newsrooms have evolved, this documentary examines the profound transformation of journalism by painting a layered portrait of its enduring power, its precarious future, and the crossroads that this critical institution faces.

The women of impoverished Arab village Jisr az-Zarqa find hope in a surprising opportunity: to build, for the first time, a center of their own. As a luxury neighborhood encroaches on their land, threatening their community, and local violence shakes their world, they confront oppression to reshape their reality.

Dedicated to the sea of Gaza, its stories, myths, and heroes, this film shows two parallel timelines, a Palestinian rowing champion striving to achieve her dream, and a fisherman and marine rescuer who has spent his life by the Gaza Sea. This film was produced before the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Betty Clark is an 80-year-old African American hospital chaplain. Jessica Zitter is a white physician on the Palliative Care team. Filled with warmth and humor, this buddy film follows two unlikely allies working to bring curiosity, connection, and compassion to a broken healthcare system - one patient at a time.

A powerful story of two sisters who decide to fight against the tragic fate that has befallen them in Afghanistan. Together, they protest against the loss of their basic rights and strive to make their voices heard in the fight against the Taliban.

A 2025 Tribeca Film Festival World-Premiere Feature Selection, this documentary follows New York City dancer and choreographer, Jenn Freeman, as she battles to find meaningful connection through the language she knows best ? dance.

This documentary is all about the legendary watermelon smashing 80's icon Gallagher. It's a story of triumph and heartache in this fascinating, hilarious, and strange character study on a true American comedy icon.

Two years ago, an MI6 officer broke silence and revealed that the British government knew of Saddam Hussein?s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 before it happened. So why did they allow British Airways flight 149 to land in the warzone that treacherous morning?

After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged to find himself as a face of the Palestinian resistance. Determined to capture his raw emotions, these filmmakers began filming the moment he arrived.