Women at the stake

Homo Paradoksum I

1989 · ★ 4.8

An experimental film about life on earth as a cosmic experiment and the curiosity and naivete of reaching out to alien life.

The First Foot

1981 · ★ 2

Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.

Arming Norway

2017

Norwegian police has traditionally not been armed in a normal situation. An unarmed police has been considered an important value, but in a chaotic world with mass shootings and terror, some are beginning to question if Norway has to go with the flow, and arm it's police too. Most police in the world carry guns every day. Is it still possible for Norway to choose the less violent alternative in 2016?

Inês

2020

Triggered by congressman Jair Bolsonaro’s homage to the torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, during president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment hearing in 2016, Inês, a 70 year-old actress, starts a fragmented narrative of her own history, transforming the memories of her youth as an artist and guerrilla fighter during the military dictatorship into performances. Using as a starting point her participation in Teatro Oficina's 1967 production of the play "King of The Candle", by Oswald de Andrade, Inês creates a manifesto in defense of art's political strength, intertwined with memories of lost love and resistance.

Until Further Notice

2021

With his industry on lockdown and no end in sight, Toronto chef Luke Donato tries to keep his culinary passion alive during the COVID-19 pandemic - even if it means teaching a group of misfits online.

SHINE

SHINE tells the story of Mike Straughter, the owner of Chase Shoe Shine Parlor in Houston’s historic Third Ward — a neighborhood long regarded as a cradle of civil rights activism and cornerstone of African American culture. For more than two decades, Mike has offered far more than a shine — he’s created a gathering place where people from all walks of life find belonging, conversation, and kindness. His shop has grown into a quiet engine of community outreach, where customers roll up their sleeves alongside him to help people in need. An intimate, character-driven documentary, SHINE captures the quiet influence of a man rooted deeply in his neighborhood — a reminder that human connection still matters and can grow in the most unexpected places.

The Sun's Gonna Shine

1969 · ★ 6.9

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Maiparade 1956

1956

The film shows the flag handover and swearing-in ceremony of the first unit of the National People's Army on the eve of May 1, 1956 and the parade of units of the People's Army on the morning of May 1.

Cat Dylan

No synopsis available.

Flugstudien

1989

Short film directed by Traudl Kulikowsky

Ford at Pearl

2021

A look at the recently discovered fascinating behind the scenes footage shot by the legendary Hollywood director John Ford at Pearl Harbor in 1942 while filming his popular World War II documentaries December 7th and The Battle of Midway.

A Lama from Ulaanbaatar

2011

A twelve year old boy, living in a "yurt" but in love with hip hop and computer games is caught between modernity and tradition, aspirations and poverty and decides to become a Buddhist monk.