Documentaries

Documentaries

If you’re a fan of non-fiction filmmaking, look no further. HighballTV has a huge selection of acclaimed documentaries which have premiered at some of the world’s biggest film festivals, such as Sundance, IDFA, Hot Docs, Tribeca and Berlin.

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Documentaries
  • Not Just Numbers
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    Not Just Numbers

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    Not Just Numbers follows the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group as Matriarch Leaders take action to end domestic violence in their communities. This powerful and inspiring documentary amplifies the voices of Aboriginal women in their homelands. While highlighting the transformational healing...

  • Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records

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    "Great fun. A slick 'greatest hits' look back at the Trojan legacy, which leaves you wanting more." Little White Lies

    BFI London Film Festival
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
    Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

    A film about the love affair between Jamaican and British Youth cult...

  • Nas: Time Is Illmatic

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    "[A] brisk, stylish and extremely heartfelt portrait of Nas' rise from the housing projects of Queensbridge to the heights of hip-hop royalty." Variety

    Tribeca Film Festival
    Vancouver Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival

    Three decades after its release, Illmatic has become a hip-hop benchmark...

  • Mama Gloria
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    Mama Gloria

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    "In her first feature, director Luchina Fisher lovingly captures the lived experience of a woman who deserves to go down in queer history." POV Magazine

    Chigago International Film Festival
    BFI Flare
    Inside Out Film Festival

    Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen blazed ...

  • Last Days At Sea

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    "Venice Atienza’s wistful and evocative documentary is rooted in the liminal space between childhood and adolescence." The Guardian

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
    International Documentary Festival Amsterdam

    12-year-old Reyboy lives in Karihatag, ...

  • How The Room Felt
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    How The Room Felt

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    "A group of Georgian queers laugh, argue, party and love in this intimate and nuanced portrait of a close-knit LGBTQ+ community." POV Magazine

    International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

    In the Geo...

  • Själö: Island of Souls

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    For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists...

  • Oh, It Hertz!
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    Oh, It Hertz!

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    "Gunner Hall Jensen’s Oh, It Hertz! is a mesmerizing documentary that is both elegant and profound." Film Threat

    CPH:DOX
    Decibels Music Film Festival
    Rhode Island International Film Festival

    Laurie Amat has heard about a conspiracy theory involving Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis. Supposedly, on ...

  • When A Farm Goes Aflame

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    Berlin International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    CPX:DOX

    A filmmaker completes his debut film: A reflection on his parents assumed monogamous long-distance marriage as well as his own Nigerian background and identity. He thereafter accidentally discovers his father’s secret; a second...

  • Please Hold The Line

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    "...an artful look at a part of Europe grasping towards connection, and the unsung workers who help achieve this." Cineuropa

    Sheffield Doc/Fest
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
    IDFA

    Pavel Cuzuioc’s observational documentary follows cable technicians in Eastern Europe - in Kyiv, Ukraine, Buzău ...

  • I Am Samuel

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    "Peter Murimi’s film vividly conveys resilience, contrasting the intimacy of a brave couple with the brutality of prejudice." The Guardian

    Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Atlanta Film Festival

    Samuel grew up in the Kenyan countryside, where tradition is...

  • Taming The Garden
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    Taming The Garden

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    "...the foibles of the super-wealthy and the environmental cost of our way of living – are brought together in this extraordinary, savagely poetic film." The Observer

    Sundance Film Festival
    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs International Documentary Festival

    Salomé Jashi's remarkable...

  • Searching Eva
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    Searching Eva

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    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Film Festival
    Sheffield Docfest

    "I dedicate my life to showing the world that one can pretend to be whoever they want.“ Eva. A 25-year-old drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist and model, Eva declar...

  • Workhorse
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    Workhorse

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    "Drawing upon the awesome and imposing power of horses and their magnetic rapport with their caretakers, Workhorse wistfully eulogizes a fading way of life." POV Magazine

    Montreal Documentary Film Festival
    Dok.fest Munchen
    Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival

    Workhorse follows three huma...

  • Pariah Dog
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    Pariah Dog

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    "Heartbreaking and luminous." The Boston Globe

    Mumbai International Film Festival
    Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
    Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

    Shot over three years, Pariah Dog is a kaleidoscopic picture of the city of Kolkata, seen through the prism of four outsiders and the dogs they...

  • Cavebirds
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    Cavebirds

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    "Gan’s doc is a pained love letter to her artistic, impractical father, with his love of bonsai trees, birds and old poetry." POV Magazine

    Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
    Montreal International Documentary Film Festival

    The key ingredient in bird's nest soup is the hardened saliva o...

  • I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die

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    "Eva Marie Rødbro's arresting feature debut probes the inner and outer struggles of three generations of women in suburban Colorado Springs." Variety

    International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
    Cork International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival

    A raw and emotionally impactful story of a y...

  • Easy Lessons
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    Easy Lessons

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    Locarno Film Festival
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
    Camerimage International Film Festival

    Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

  • Scheme Birds
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    Scheme Birds

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    "Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin announce themselves as docmakers to watch with this piercing chronicle of a Scottish teen's drastic coming of age." Variety

    Tribeca Film Festival
    Hot Docs
    Edinburgh International Film Festival

    A winner of multiple awards across the festival circuit, including Be...

  • Liyana
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    Liyana

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    "A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

    Dublin International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Palm Springs Films Festival

    A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

  • Mighty Jerome
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    Mighty Jerome

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    Vancouver International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

    From acclaimed filmmaker Charles Officer comes the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Harry Jerome, Canada's most record-setting track and field star. Gorgeous monochrome imagery, impassioned i...

  • Bixa Travesty
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    Bixa Travesty

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    "Da Quebrada is a charismatic and compelling individual, a bold and dynamic performer and an insightful and articulate social critic." Sight and Sound

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest

    Directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, Bixa Tra...

  • Parallel Planes
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    Parallel Planes

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    Dok Lepizig Festival
    Chicago Underground Film Festival
    IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival

    Nicole Wegner's documentary pays homage to the American DIY spirit, and the diversity of the US musical landscape outside the commercial music industry, by portraying 12 American avant-gard...

  • Your Mother's Comfort
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    Your Mother's Comfort

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    Inside Out LGBT Toronto Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest
    Outfest Los Angeles

    “We transgender are the revolution!” Indianara Siqueira, trans activist and politician, says as she admonishes her political party for ousting her days before the 2018 Brazilian national elections. In the same election ...