Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance

Night and Fog

1956 · ★ 8.3

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Climate Fix

2023 · ★ 5

Director James Nguyen will release his short documentary film, CLIMATE FIX which suggests how carbon removal technology can be used to fix climate change-global warming.

Meine Eltern wollen sich trennen

1983

On the morning of her birthday, eight-year-old Katja learns what she has been afraid of for a long time: her parents want to separate. Instead of going to school, she takes the train into town to visit her older sister. Her sister tries to explain to Katja why everything happened and how things might continue.

At Tourkovounia

1982

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

As Night Descends

2020

In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink our modes of existence and our relationship to others, nature, science, the economy, art, politics—in short, everything that makes us human.

Cruising Do's and Don'ts

2007

Tips for what to expect when taking a vacation aboard a cruise ship, and how to make the most of the trip.

Inuk Woman City Blues

Follows homeless, addicted and alienated Greenlandic women in Copenhagen, Denmark; includes fragments of Greenlandic culture.

Planet Food: Spice Trails

2012 · ★ 7.5

In this remarkable journey, Planet Food travels the world to see how control of the spice trails, over the last five millennia, has made great cities and destroyed ancient civilizations. Our guides travel from the Molucca Islands of Indonesia, the original home of cloves and nutmeg, to the Indian province of Kerala, with its native pepper and cardamom. Additional stops include Venice, Beirut, Cairo and other significant places in the spice trade that created and toppled empires.

Vanishing Kings: Desert Lions of the Namib

2015 · ★ 8.2

On the edge of the Namibian desert, cattle farmers are looking for new land to graze their animals. The lions, who occupied these previously wild spaces, are hunted by herd guards, or even slaughtered when they attack cows. Will and Lianne Steenkamp lived for two years in a territory occupied by a 17-year-old lioness - a "queen" -, her two daughters and their five lion cubs. This film traces the process of empowering the young: after learning to hunt alone, they will have to leave the family pack and find young females to reproduce. A necessity all the greater as their species seems threatened.

Flesh

2019 · ★ 7.1

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?

2015 · ★ 7

Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with the dreams of yesteryear.

Brigitte

2019 · ★ 7.5

An insight into the creative process of photographer Brigitte Lacombe, exploring her obsession with taking pictures and how her lens defines her relationship with her subjects and the world.