Essay Film Movies

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

In the idyllic world of Israeli kibbutzim everything has its own pace. There’s a time for work and for rest. There’s a time for fun too,...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

In this experimental documentary, a transgender woman reflects on being harassed by a stranger.

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware,...

Produced for the 1972 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Lanscape, Supersurface was the first of five films planned by...

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

In an open letter to the most influential modern Indian political leader, the Late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the filmmaker sequentially narrates...

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In...

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary and staged pictures, press reports, social...

The second part of the endless series about Moravia offers an even darker descent into the soul of Moravia, which is, however, intoxicating like a...

In an age of chaos, destruction, and decay, the resurrection of nature was the last ray of vitality and a testament to survival. The film ventures...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay. Through the analysis of said picture,...