The Gleaners and I (2000)

The kindest film of the year is an 82-minute documentary. Agnès Varda took a small Sony camcorder, her first digital camera, into French fields, vineyards and city markets to meet people who live on what others throw away: a Michelin-starred chef who gleans, a field of heart-shaped potatoes, and Alain, who has a master's degree, eats from market leftovers and teaches French to immigrants. Her own curiosity is the thread. When she forgot to switch the camera off, she kept the footage of its swinging lens cap and called it a dance.