River Movies

A mountaineering tour on the Franz Josef Glacier, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. After leaving the Fox Glacier Hotel, two...

A hovering camera exploration; The flow of a river becomes background and subject at the same time, movement creating fabric-like patterns of...

Released on the 17th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Zéïr, a historian of the future, travels up the Huveaune in search of impressions. Driven by a desire to better understand the river, she...

Travelogue released on the first of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The relationship between a Frog and a Lumberjack intensifies as they argue over who has the rights to the river.

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Bridges are an essential link in this great road network that connects the main places of the province. The film illustrates the construction of a...

Travelogue released on November 2nd, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A mockumentary exploring the "mythical" geography river next to a highschool.

A 15-year-old is left in charge of a pizza restaurant in Sauk City, Wisconsin.

Habibur Rahman’s The River of Partition (Ichamati, 2023) documents this riverine environment, the diverse communities that live around it, and...

'Guadalquivir' is a feature length documentary directed by Joaquín Gutiérrez that features a fox, an animal that has adapted, living in...

A coming-of-age story about two boys, one Dominican and one Haitian, accidentally meeting and becoming the friends they never knew they could have,...

One peaceful day for the farmers in the summer of 2009, the Korean government announced the master plan for the “4 Major Rivers Project.”...

'Rooted' is a dream-like experimental short film created by Elke Hounshell and Ash Carroll. This short film explores how nature is a healing practice...

A performative criminal is unable to find a valuable bag; instead, he finds a suspicious man who may be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In the haunting stillness of post-Soviet suburbia, a lone man walks with purpose — toward the river. With each heavy step across the gray,...

A solitary presence by the river is interrupted by a curious encounter between a lone walker and a fossilised creature. Fallen asleep and awakened in...