Movies and TvShows featuring "auteur-documentary" theme.

16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.

Despite the loneliness he experiences living in New York, and the oceanic distance that separates him from his home, Miguel remains resiliently motivated to help this family he hasn't seen in 13 years - sacrificing, again and again, his own aspirations. When Miguel opens a package from his mother, he discovers photographs that throw him back to his childhood in rural Mexico, times when living in the US was but a dream. It is these childhood memories that fuel Miguel's ambition and altruism and yet, at the same time, keep him trapped in the past.

Little Criminals is an auteur documentary that follows the lives of a group of Glaswegian junkies who are addicted to drugs and engage in shoplifting to support their heroin addiction.

After remembering a traumatic racist incident in his childhood, Pirooz Kalayeh decides to document his journey to recovery, traveling back to the barbershop where he was refused a haircut as a child, and then doing a series of role-plays with family, friends, and children to understand how racism leaves lasting effects and how he and others can heal and move forward.