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 through the screening of outstanding international documentaries and Q&A, presenting the academic vision, cultivating documentary audience, arousing discussions of cutting-edge topics, and helping documentaries infiltrate into people's life, so as to create a documentary art feast for the public.
- Country/Area of Production: Ethiopia,USA,Qata
- Language of Dialogue: Oromiffa, Harari
- Runtime: 120min
- Director: Jessica Beshir
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Jessica Beshir
- Country/Area of Production: Russia
- Language of Dialogue: Russian
- Runtime: 85min
- Director: Julia Sergina
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Alexander Balashov, Karina Sharafutdinova
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese (Dialect)
- Runtime: 97min
- Director: DENG Wei
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: DENG Wei
- Country/Area of Production: Poland
- Language of Dialogue: Polish
- Runtime: 70min
- Director: Tomasz Wolski
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Anna Gawlita
- Country/Area of Production: Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German
- Runtime: 96 min
- Director: ZHAO Liang
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: ZHAO Liang, Serge Lalou, Valérie Guérin
- Country/Area of Production: Switzerland
- Language of Dialogue: German
- Runtime: 131 min
- Director: Thomas Imbach
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Andrea Štaka, Flora Grolitsch, Thomas Imbach
- Country/Area of Production: French, Turkey, Germany
- Language of Dialogue: Turkish, Arabic
- Runtime: 89min
- Director: Ahmet Necdet Çupur
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Delphine Morel
- Country/Area of Production: Norway, Iran, Switzerland
- Language of Dialogue: French
- Runtime: 82min
- Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
- Country/Area of Production: Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar
- Language of Dialogue: Russian, Kurdish, Ukrainian, German, Arabic
- Runtime: 104 min
- Director: Alina Gorlova
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Maksym Nakonechnyi
- Country/Area of Production: France
- Language of Dialogue: Mandarin
- Runtime: 23 min
- Director: Paul Heintz
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
- Country/Area of Production: Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue: Arabic,Hebrew
- Runtime: 55min
- Director: Esther Hertog, Paul King
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Janneke Doolaard
- Country/Area of Production: UK
- Language of Dialogue: English
- Runtime: 16 min
- Director: John Smith
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: John Smith
- Country/Area of Production: Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue: Dutch
- Runtime: 24min
- Director: Sebastian Mulder
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Jasper Boon
- Country/Area of Production: Poland
- Language of Dialogue: Polish
- Runtime: 19 min
- Director: Andrzej Cichocki
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Ewa Jastrzebska
- Country/Area of Production: Germany, France
- Language of Dialogue: English, French
- Runtime: 16 min
- Director: Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee
- Type of Work: Documentary Series(4 Episodes)
- Producer: Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Kevin B. Lee
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 30 min
- Director: Malcolm Clarke
- Type of Work: Documentary Series(4 Episodes)
- Producer: HAN Yi, MIAO Tong, JIN Qingxiao, CHEN Muqiao, WU Xiaoyang
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 35 min
- Director: Huijing XU
- Type of Work: Documentary Series(6 Episodes)
- Producer: Haitao YANG, Kang QI, Aihua CHEN
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 35min
- Director: ZHANG Lin
- Type of Work: Documentary series(4 Episodes)
- Producer: HAN Xu, NIU Yun, XU Shaopei
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese and English
- Runtime: 60min
- Director: Cecilia SUN
- Type of Work: Documentary series(6 Episodes)
- Producer: Jamie ZHU
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 80min
- Director: QU Jiangtao
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: QU Jiangtao, FANG Min
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 84min
- Director: ZHANG Yong
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: ZHANG Yong
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 40min
- Director: Jiali ZHOU
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Jiali ZHOU
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 39min
- Director: ZHONG Qingxuan
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: ZHONG Qingxuan ,CUI Qiuju
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 30 min
- Director: XU Jifeng
- Type of Work: Documentary Series(6 Episodes)
- Producer: ZheJiang Radio&Television Group
- Country/Area of Production: Latvia
- Language of Dialogue: No dialogues
- Runtime: 12
- Director: Laila Pakalnina
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Laila Pakalnina
- Country/Area of Production: Russia
- Language of Dialogue: Russian
- Runtime: 109
- Director: Vadim Kostrov
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Gleb Piryatinskiy
- Country/Area of Production: Italy
- Language of Dialogue: Italian
- Runtime: 110
- Director: Pietro Marcello,Francesco Munzi,Alice Rohrwacher
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Alessio Lazzareschi
- Country/Area of Production: France, USA
- Language of Dialogue: Paper & Glue
- Runtime: 94
- Director: JR
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Dallas Brennan Rexer, Marc Azoulay
- Country/Area of Production: Films de Force Majeure, Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
- Language of Dialogue: Arabic
- Runtime: 89
- Director: Abdallah Al-Khatib
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: France, Lebanon, Qatar
- Country/Area of Production: Belgium
- Language of Dialogue: English
- Runtime: 71
- Director: Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Caviar
- Country/Area of Production: Peru
- Language of Dialogue: Aymara
- Runtime: 80
- Director: Tito Catacora
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Oscar Catacora
- Country/Area of Production: UK
- Language of Dialogue: English
- Runtime: 94
- Director: Andrea Arnold
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Kat Mansoor
- Country/Area of Production: Switzerland, Georgia, Germany
- Language of Dialogue: Georgian
- Runtime: 91
- Director: Salomé Jashi
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Vadim Jendreyko, Salomé Jashi, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly,
- Country/Area of Production: Poland
- Language of Dialogue: Polish
- Runtime: 11 min
- Director: Jacek Borcuch
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: HBO Europe
- Country/Area of Production: Poland
- Language of Dialogue: Polish
- Runtime: 11 min
- Director: Pawel Loziński
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: HBO Europe
- Country/Area of Production: Netherlands
- Language of Dialogue: Dutch
- Runtime: 64
- Director: Guido Hendrikx
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Jasper Boon, Ena Sendijarevic, Wouter Jansen, Guido Hendrikx
- Country/Area of Production: Argentina
- Language of Dialogue: Spanish
- Runtime: 29 min
- Director: Pablo Martin Weber
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Pablo Martin Weber, Periferia Cine Country
- Country/Area of Production: UK
- Language of Dialogue: No dialogues
- Runtime: 39
- Director: Peter Treherne
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: Peter Treherne, Joe Regan
- Country/Area of Production: China, Germany
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese (including dialect)
- Runtime: 40
- Director: YANG Xiao
- Type of Work: Short Documentary
- Producer: YANG Xiao, CHEN Sisi
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Mandarin
- Runtime: 97
- Director: ZHOU Hao
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: HOU Haoliang
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 104
- Director: Jian FAN
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: RICHARD LIANG, S·LEO CHIANG
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, English
- Runtime: 97 min
- Director: Tracy DONG
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: Ruby CHEN
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese (dialect)
- Runtime: 117
- Director: Niu Niu
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: WANG Lei, Emma XU
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese (dialect)
- Runtime: 115
- Director: ZHAO Gang
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: ZHENG Qiong, ZHAO Gang
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese
- Runtime: 108
- Director: CHEN Junhua
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: CHEN Junhua, Ruby CHEN
- Country/Area of Production: China
- Language of Dialogue: Chinese, English, French
- Runtime: 85 min
- Director: CHEN Hong
- Type of Work: Feature-Length Documentary
- Producer: LI Xiaowei