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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Love During Wartime
Movie + 2 extras
"a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic
Tribeca Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Göteborg International Film FestivalThe recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want des...
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P.S. Jerusalem
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
DOC NYCFilmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...
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Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Movie + 1 extra
“Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety
SXSW Film Festival
Cleveland Film Festival
Cork Film FestivalIn the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...
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Since I Been Down
Movie + 1 extra
"In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry
Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...
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Freedom Or Death
Movie + 2 extras
Ukrainian-born filmmaker Damien Kolodiy travelled to his homeland in 2014 to document the violent insurrection from the streets, chronicling the extreme chaos engulfing Ukraine in a remarkable and intense narrative. Told from the point of view of Kolodiy, with exhaustive research and incredible u...
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Recovery Room
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Adriana Luhovy, Recovery Room is a feature documentary that tells the story of several humanitarian Canadian Medical Missions to Ukraine. Plastic surgeons with their specialized team of 25 Canadian health professionals arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv during 2014 ...
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Wapikoni Indigenous Women Programme Two
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Wapikoni Indigenous Women Programme Two is composed of short films about women who challenge stereotypes, are revisiting old traditions, and who are the focal point and pillars of their communities.
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Wapikoni Indigenous Women Programme One
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A collection of short films that centre Indigenous women and the vital and grounding roles they play in Indigenous communities and in maintaining and passing along important traditions and teachings to the generations to come.
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Wapikoni Film Festival Favourites
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A collection of Wapikoni shorts, made by Indigenous filmmakers that have played renowned festivals including Sundance, RIDM, imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and ReelWorld Film Festival. Exploring the importance of various traditions including the connections to tools, clothing and Thr...
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Wapikoni Territory and Environment Programme Two
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Exploring the healing abilities and gifts that our surroundings can provide us, Territory and Environment Programme Two is made up of short films that show us how we can rise up and show up for the world around us, and how in exchange it can do the same for its people.
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The Smart Studios Story
Movie + 1 extra
SXSW
Wendy Schneider’s illuminating documentary pays tribute to the history of Madison, Wisconsin-based recording studio, Smart Studios and its connection to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990s. Featuring fantastic archive material and contributions from its founders and many of the...
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A Breath with Pina Bausch
Movie
Istanbul Film Festival
A unique record of the visit to Istanbul in 2002 of legendary German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, and her Tanztheater de Wuppertal company, a visit which inspired the performance piece 'A Breath.' It provides a fascinating backstage look at a work in progress and ...
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Robin & Mark & Richard III
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Over the course of three years, Martha Burns and Susan Coyne filmed the late theatre director Robin Phillips and performer Mark McKinney (The Kids in the Hall) rehearsing a piece from Shakespeare’s Richard III at Robin...
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Film Festival Film
Movie + 1 extra
Berlin International Film Festival
Fanon is an ambitious young Black African filmmaker attending the Durban International Film Festival. Directors Mpumelelo Mcata and Perivi Katjavivi convey how she tries desperately to find a producer to fund her debut feature film. The film accurately portrays...
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Black President
Movie + 1 extra
Berlin International Film Festival
Durban International Film Festival
New Horizons Film FestivalMpumelelo Mcata’s debut documentary feature is an inventive and complex film looking at the life and work of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiuarai. The film uses the artist's 2011 exhibition ‘State of ...
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Diciembres
Movie + 1 extra
“Diciembres” blends together archive footage and fictional scenes – using a poetic style that viscerally recreates moments from the invasion." - Variety
Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later in December 1999 when a photographe...