Glory of Documentary Screening Section is curated by West Lake International Documentary Festival for the purpose of cultivating audience and focusing on excellent documentaries at home and abroad. The purpose is to focus on the screening of outstanding international documentaries and Q&A after the screenings, presenting the academic vision, cultivate documentary audience, arouse discussions of cutting-edge topics, and help documentaries infiltrate into people's life, so as to create a documentary art feast for the public. Based on different perspectives and motivations, this section has various themes. It presents in the way of "screening -- post-screening Q&A", presenting the spirit of "exploring the ontology of documentary, setting up youth experiment, holding people's heart high and creating oriental temperament".
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 59 min
- Director: Bibo LIANG
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Xinjian LIANG
- Country/Area of Production: Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, English
- Runtime: 90 min
- Director: Frank Scheffer
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Jan de Ruiter, Niek Koppen, Pieter van Huystee, Jia ZHAO
- Country/Area of Production: Serbia, Germany
- Language of Dialogue: No Dialogue
- Runtime: 48 min
- Director: Ivan Marković
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Jelena Radenković
- Country/Area of Production: Poland
- Language of Dialogue: Belarusian
- Runtime: 50 min
- Director: Marcin Sauter
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Marcin Sauter
- Country/Area of Production: USA
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 68 min
- Director: Lei Lei
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Lei Lei
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, French, English
- Runtime: 83 min
- Director: Min-an WANG
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Min-an WANG
- Country/Area of Production: Hong Kong China
- Language of Dialogue: Cantonese, Spanish, English
- Runtime: 90 min
- Director: S. Louisa WEI
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Law Kar
- Country/Area of Production: Latvia, Lithuania
- Language of Dialogue: Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, Hebrew
- Runtime: 78 min
- Director: Audrius Stonys, Kristīne Briede
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Uldis Cekulis, Arunas Matelis
- Country/Area of Production: Canada, China, USA
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, English
- Runtime: 88 min
- Director: Malcolm Clarke
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: William Mundell, HAN Yi
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, Kazakh
- Runtime: 106 min
- Director: XIAO Han
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: XIAO Han, LEI Jianjun