Audience
82.0
Critics
97.3
Award
81.4
◆VENICE 2026
Movies recognized by major awards & festivals, 2021–2026
Documentaries with Cannes, Venice or Berlin main competition selection, including winners in 2021–2026. Only films with a known Critics Score of 85+ are included, ordered by Critics Score. Oscar and BAFTA documentary categories are outside this catalogue.
2021–2026 refers to ceremony and festival years, not necessarily release dates. 9 films in this collection.
| # | Movie | Watch | Year | Total ~ | Audience | Critics | Award Score | Recognition | Genre | Runtime |
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| 1 | N Yuval Abraham; Rachel Szor · United Kingdom | 2026 | 93.5 | 82.0 | 97.3 | 81.4 | ◆VENICE 2026 | Documentary | 80 min | |
| 2 | AT Laura Poitras · United States | 2022 | 94.9 | 76.0 | 92.8 | 91.9 | 🏆VENICE 2022 | Biography, Documentary, History | 113 min | |
| 3 | MB Maria Speth · Germany | 2021 | 92.9 | 81.5 | 92.6 | 80.6 | ◆BERLIN 2021 | Documentary | 217 min | |
| 4 | PB Gianfranco Rosi · Italy | 2025 | 91.3 | 68.1 | 90.8 | 81.4 | ◆VENICE 2025 | Documentary | 115 min | |
| 5 | D Mati Diop · France; Senegal; Benin | 2024 | 93.6 | 69.9 | 89.2 | 91.2 | 🏆BERLIN 2024 | Documentary | 68 min | |
| 6 | ED Grant Gee · Ireland; United Kingdom | 2026 | 89.0~ | 72.6 | 87.9 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2026 | Documentary, Music | 102 min | |
| 7 | TL Tizza Covi; Rainer Frimmel · Austria | 2026 | 89.3~ | 76.2 | 86.7 | 70.0 | ●BERLIN 2026 | Biography, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Music | 86 min | |
| 8 | Y( Wang Bing · China; France; Luxembourg; Netherlands | 2024 | 89.5 | 77.1 | 85.8 | 70.8 | ●VENICE 2024 | Documentary | 152 min | |
| 9 | FD Kaouther Ben Hania · France; Germany; Tunisia; Saudi Arabia | 2023 | 89.6 | 76.6 | 85.6 | 71.6 | ●CANNES 2023 | Documentary | 107 min |
This collection contains 9 documentaries with Cannes, Venice or Berlin main competition selection, including winners during 2021–2026. The Documentary label comes from the catalogue genres; a film can belong to more than one genre. Every film has a known Critics Score of at least 85. Missing critics’ ratings are excluded. Critics Score combines ratings from trusted sources; it is not an individual Rotten Tomatoes percentage or Metacritic score. Oscar and BAFTA documentary categories are not represented.
Naza leads this Critics Score ranking with 97.3. Naza has one of the highest Audience scores in the selection (82.0). Naza has one of the highest known Critics scores (97.3). Comparing these separate scores can help you choose between the films.
Yuval Abraham; Rachel Szor · 2026 · 80 min
Audience 82.0 · Critics 97.3 · Total 93.5
Venice 2026: Other major award
Laura Poitras · 2022 · 113 min
Audience 76.0 · Critics 92.8 · Total 94.9
Venice 2022: Golden Lion
Maria Speth · 2021 · 217 min
Audience 81.5 · Critics 92.6 · Total 92.9
Berlin 2021: Other major award
Films are ordered by their known Critics Score. The 85-point minimum is applied before ranking. A Critics score marked ~ is estimated from the catalogue median; its Total is provisional. Recognition years refer to ceremonies and festival editions, not necessarily release dates.