Documentary Film

Documentary Film

A documentary film is a non-fictional, motion picture intended to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. Documentary has been described as "a film making practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries". Documentary films were originally called "actuality films", and were one minute, or less, in length. Over time, documentaries have evolved to be longer in length, and to include more categories; some examples being: educational, observational, and docufiction.

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Documentary Film
  • Strike

    A political portrait of a union demonstration in the city of Porto, Portugal, during the spring time.

    This documentary presents a social and psychological representation of the brutal confusion and disorientation of a society and left-wing movements that reality has far surpassed

  • Late Afternoon in Alentejo

    Alentejo Late Afternoon is an aesthetic essay on the earliest sources of the art of cinema: light, movement, sound and pretense. Using Alentejo’s landscape as the canvas and the camera as an instrument for the expression of an original look, a cinematographic structure is created around reference...

  • Vertex

    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Heraclitus

    Vertex emerges from the idea that in nature everything flows and that nothing lasts forever in the historical world that we inhabit. The only aspect that persists in time and space is a...

  • Portrait

    Family photographs, memories, landscapes and scenes from the everyday life constitute the portrait of an attitude and a way of life. The portrait of a generation where marriage was “until death do us apart”, and a time of misery and oppression marked by the inheritance of the Spanish Civil War. ...

  • Roots

    Roots is an allegorical representation of life and death in a neolitic community. The story illustrates the beginning of human sedentarism, at a time when man was still entirely dependent on nature to survive. High in the mountains and valleys of Castro Laboreiro, shepherds, hunters, farmers live...

  • A Study of Possibilities

    This documentary explores the multiple possibilities of the creative process during the rehearsals of the play "Bichos do bosque" staged by João Paulo Seara Cardoso in 2007 for the Puppet Theatre of Porto. Fragments of rehearsals, readings, discussions, conversations, the process of puppet making...

  • Raw

    There is compassion, dishonesty, deceit, violence, lies, betrayal, pity,
    loss, ruin, bitterness. There is a lot of open wounds on the prematurely aged bodies, fallen, pros- trated, diseased. There are hasty judgments, delayed illusions, shared deceptions. - Lord that you are in the
    City have merc...

  • Super Tinga

    Super Tinga is a comic book superhero of Brazil who won a monument in the city of Porto Alegre and his success surpassed the American continent and arrived in Africa where reality and fiction mix me

  • Bhagat Singh

    A short documentary on Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

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