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The film is dedicated to the work of one of the most famous Russian composers, the author of the first Soviet rock opera Alexander Zhurbin. The 4 episodes tell about the different facets of the composer's work, about sym
A short film documenting Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia's life as the leader of the Walias Band in the 1970, his immigration to the United States and his subsequent re-emergence as a performer in 2014.
Between 1959 and 1961, more than 35 million people starved to death because of Mao’s Great Leap Forward policies. To avoid censorship in China, this painful period is now euphemistically referred to as the “Three Years o
The 23-year-old director, fresh out of university, lives at home with her mother and grandmother. She rebels against them but also tries to understand the generation gap between them. While she gets angry and questions t
The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans into the metropolis we know today and feat
The poet Daniel Hradecký is the prime mover of a transgenre film about a journey into the depths of one's own consciousness. This black and white documentary parable looks into the soul of man through the interplay of so
How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, screa
Portrait of Cleews Vellay, president of Act Up-Paris, who died of AIDS in 1994, who talks about his childhood, his family, his homosexuality and his commitments. Through his personal anecdotes, a history of AIDS and homo
A short documentary about Lorenza Böttner, a Chilean-German disabled trans artist (1959-1994).
Father blames son, son blames father, in this everyday story of witchcraft, murder and cannibalism.
Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulri
Photographer Mike Lassiter journeys across South Carolina capturing the stories of historic, often family-run businesses that line main streets from the coast to the upstate.
A profile of Nobuo Fukuda, a chef blending Japanese and western styles.
Documentary on the interdependence of the world of the living and the dead, and 'the infernal influence on the thoughts and actions of living people.
The village in the mountains of China that the director has long made the subject of her camera. The traces of memories and landscapes that fade away before one’s eyes. An 85-year-old man is recounting the story of half
Armande Altaï, an artist, a free woman, a singer, a former singing teacher at Star Academy and an underground hero, cross over Paris from sidewalks to taxis, from cafes to churches, until she takes a train to Marseille.
Provides a colorful portrait of dancer Mura Dehn. Born and trained in Russia, she went to Paris in 1925, met Josephine Baker and discovered jazz. Tells how she came to New York and choreographed jazz tunes. Includes a li
Locked in his painful loneliness, Mateo, a young painter, seeks an escape on an online dating site. By mistake he meets Lily, a sweet young woman from China with whom he lives a tender friendship, without knowing that sh