The Hidden Life of Trees

King Leopold's Ghost

2006 · ★ 8

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast country into his private estate (1885-1908) and how he plundered the land and raped the bodies and souls of its defenceless inhabitants, causing countless victims; and what exactly is the true impact of this often forgotten story of crime and horror today.

When You Listen to This Song

2025

In August 2021, writer Lola Lafon spent a night alone in the Annex of the Anne Frank Museum, where the young girl and her family hid from 1942 to 1944. This experience gave rise to a book, Quand tu écouteras cette chanson, and now its documentary adaptation. Over the course of a night, the author revisits her story. An inner journey around the figure of Anne Frank and the power of writing in the face of oblivion.

Tree

2010

Structural study of a tree. Light, water and air coax it out of the soil in a manner foregrounding time’s relativity to different forms of life on Earth. Made the day my brother got his fork-lift license.

The Case for Christ

2007 · ★ 5.8

Based upon the Gold-Medallion award-winning best-seller, The Case for Christ documents Lee Strobel's journey from atheism to faith through his two-year investigation of the Bible and the life of Jesus Christ.

Treehugger

A Valentine's Day story about a young couple, how they get together, and how they fall apart. All because of one tree.

Baobab: Portrait of a Tree

1971 · ★ 8

Looks at the baobab trees that grow in the dry bush country of Africa and shows the ecosystem created by them.

The Demise of ETA

2017 · ★ 5.9

The chronicle of the process, ten long years, that led to the end of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), a Basque terrorist gang that perpetrated robberies, kidnappings and murders in Spain and the French Basque Country for more than fifty years. Almost 1,000 people died, but others are still alive to tell the story of how the nightmare finally ended.

Cracking the Shakespeare Code

2016 · ★ 7.5

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen claims to have deciphered a secret code hidden in legendary playwright William Shakespeare's works that reveals a map leading to the location of certain treasures. British Shakespearean scholar Robert Crumpton embarks on a mission to prove he is spectacularly wrong. (A remake of “Shakespeare: The Hidden Truth,” including new discoveries.)

Returning to Reims

2022 · ★ 6.4

An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver

2002 · ★ 7.2

A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968.

Starý smrk vypravuje

1948

No synopsis available.

A Brief History of Time

1991 · ★ 7.2

Partly adapted from cosmologist Stephen Hawking's popular book about his theories of the universe, this in-depth documentary also presents Hawking's daily life as he deals with the ALS that renders him virtually immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, former classmates and peers are interviewed about not only his theories but the man himself.