In the aftermath of a death, a home is cleaned out; the accumulation of a life is removed in bags and recycle bins. But what becomes of the collection of books? Laura Rantanen’s resoundingly moving and wistful documentary reflects on the end of life, what lingers behind, and the moments when a book breaks through the monotony to open the world around us.

Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in ...
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In a leafy forest, a Galician sovereign who longs to attain wisdom meets a sorcerer, who tells him: ...

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...

The Rastreadoras de El Fuerte are a group of mothers of disappeared persons in northern Sinaloa who,...

A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the ea...

100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, J...
Francesco Garripoli and Daisy Lee-Garripoli guide viewers through a moving meditation of gentle, flo...

A retired teacher’s journey living with essential tremor becomes a poetic meditation on identity, ag...

Before leaving for Rome with his mother, five year old Natan is taken by his father, Jorge, on an e...

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Hor...

The Reality of Time takes viewers on an immersive journey through the mysteries of time, from the Bi...

Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets...

A community of cats lives in the Soledade Cemetery Park in Belém. "7 Vidas" follows these animals th...

When an 80 year old intellectual is confronted with issues of old age and death, she reminisces the ...

A portrait of a seemingly ordinary house - one that holds cherished memories while also bearing the ...

Passers-by, those who knew him in his youth, René Barjavel, witness of his beginnings, his wife, his...

A documentary that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a intimate and thoughtful walk throug...

In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labele...

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young fe...

The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our ill...