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The Mouvement lycée of 2026 has brought French police brutality to the fore, but Police violence is not a new problem in France. From its colonial origins, to how they’re trained, to the brave families fighting for justice in court, here are 12 documentary films with which to explore and understand the subject in depth.
Runa Simi takes place in Cusco, Peru, and follows a local man, Fernando Valencia, on his quest to dub The Lion King into Quechua, the largest pre-Colombian language in Latin America.
Opening the 2026 edition of FIPADOC is a perfectly unique first feature about one artist’s pursuit of a singular experience: to sing a duet with a whale.
Every June, the Champs-Élysées Film Festival brings together an exceptional selection of independent cinema from France and the United States to Paris’ iconic avenue. Here are 7 indie documentaries premiering at this year’s edition that are excited about !
We’re collaborating with French activist, filmmaker and youtuber Vincent Verzat on the international avant-premiere tour of his documentary The Wild Defending Itself from June to October 2025.
Few ways of making film today offer richer ground for artistic expression, political thought and social critique than decolonial cinema. Here are 13 documentaries that deconstruct colonial narratives, featuring in this year’s edition of the Decolonial Film Festival, of which Doc Weekly is a proud media partner.
The Paris-based Decolonial Film Festival will be opening its 2025 edition with an avant-premiere of the Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat by Johan Grimonprez. Doc Weekly is excited to be the Decolonial Film Festival’s official media partner, boasting a programming committee made up of fifteen anti-racist, diasporic, queer and feminist organisations.
To celebrate IDFA 2020 and this year’s amazing program, we’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite documentaries due for release next year in 2021.
After four days of kick-flips, tube rides and sold-out screenings, the Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival has crowned it’s winning films. Here’s where you can watch them.
Documentary Weekly is proud to be an official media partner of the Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival (PSSFF). To kick things off, here’s their all-time roundup of the best surf and skateboard documentaries ever made.
Like all festivals of the past few months, Locarno has altered its format for 2020. However, with its Films After Tomorrow selection, the organisation has boldly pioneered a truly unique focus. Here are our top 5 docs.
In a dark room of Paris’ Grand Café in 1895, secretary Alice Guy-Blaché is one of the first people in history to witness the ‘cinématographe’. That day, Alice’s fate as one of the most important figures of early cinema was sealed, but whether she’d be remembered was far less certain.
For our second episode we met Lucie while in Coronavirus quarantine at her parents’ house. She suggests listening to the BBC's "Tunnel 29" podcast, reckons she was unduly manipulated by the "Kony 2012" documentary and most of the documentaries she's seen have made her cry.
But fear not! The organisers have got you covered with plenty of fantastic docs available to watch online. In partnership with Mediapart, you can now discover Cinéma du Réel’s thirteen “Premières Fenêtres” selections for free.
The 42nd edition of Cinéma du Réel kicks off in Paris this week and we can’t wait to dig in to this year’s selection. Doc Weekly will be in attendance, keeping an eye out for future classics, interviewing directors and keeping you all updated on social media along the way. But first, here are our top picks from this year’s line-up.
For our first episode of “What Are You Watching?” we met Matt, who had his mind blown by the ‘Zeitgeist’ movies as a kid, was inspired by the cult film ‘American Movie’ and reckons ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’, a film about product placement that is funded by product placement, is the most “WTF” doc he’s ever seen.
On November 13th 2015, Paris suffered it’s deadliest ever attack. This incredibly poignant and touching 3-part series is an intimate portrayal of 40 survivors’ stories, but also how deeply their lives have been affected by the experience.
This is the calming and affecting study of L’Arche, a community of people with learning disabilities in France, who despite common beliefs have a huge amount of knowledge to impart on the world.
