Documentary Films on The D-Word

El oro de Baitoa (2024)

Produced by Juan Alfonso Zapata

Sunny Chatum’s American Dream (unreleased)

Directed by Krista Komondor

From talent show flop to world’s biggest band.

The Joy of Curiosity https://thejoyofcuriosity.com (2025)

Directed by Kum-Kum Bhavnani

Rare, intimate portraits of 3 Buddhist monastics, driven by curiosity, sharing their spiritual lives

Custody (unreleased)

Directed by Anson Scoville

When parents battle, children pay the price.

Solitude in Two Voices (2025)

Directed by Markus Essien

The Beauty of Your Earth (2026)

Directed by Cate O'Brien & Marius van Graan

A poetic, emotionally-charged documentary and a love letter to those defending Ukraine's soul by sav

Grit (2024)

A film about people who keep going

Di Sarno- The story of Emilio's Ballato (2023)

A New York institution hidden in plain sight

Unity and Hope: The Pride of the HBCU (2025)

Directed by Markus Essien

American Masters Renegades, Brad Lomax (2024)

Directed by Markus Essien

BENITA (2025)

Produced by Alan Berliner

An unplanned collaboration between two filmmakers that transcends mortality.

The River (2025)

Directed by Jose Manuel Pichardo Jr.

Finding the Hidden Note (2027)

Mona Mur in Conversation (2025)

Directed by Dietmar Post

There was Marlene Dietrich and Nico. And there is Mona Mur, "Germany's Queen of Postpunk."

Mighty Indeed (2025)

Produced by Vanessa Wells

Three women. Four decades. One melting continent.

Chilapa Girl (2025)

Directed by Juana Lotero López

Yulieth is pursued by silent violences from which not even the jungle can shelter her.

Rolling Film Rocking History (unreleased)

SPYRAL (unreleased)

A powerful, award-winning documentary shifting the mental health narrative

Urban Canvas: From the Underground Up (2026)

Dad Genes (unreleased)

Directed by Craig Downing

A sperm donor meets several of his biological children and becomes an unconventional family man