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.
Sorrow does not come merely from contemplating death, which forces us to look into Eternity, but als...
16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, B...
Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries o...
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, J...
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets...
Francesco Garripoli and Daisy Lee-Garripoli guide viewers through a moving meditation of gentle, flo...
The film tells the story of Bill, a young boy who discovers a worn and damaged book about the Americ...
Overwhelmed by her uncharted direction in life, a young woman leaves a voicemail to her future self,...
John, a baby who has never been without his parents, spends nine days in a nursery without them.
The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our ill...
The library is a stronghold of humanism, but today libraries are more than places for borrowing book...
Behind Audrey Hepburn's dazzling image, Darcey Bussell unravels an epic tale of betrayal, courage, h...
A poetic and contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the ea...
A documentary that invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a intimate and thoughtful walk throug...
December 31, 2015. The Valencian bookstore Valdeska closed its doors permanently after forty years o...
Documentary film that follows Silvana Castro, a woman who works at the National Congress Library in ...
Through a collection of home video footage, the filmmaker undergoes a journey of reconciliation and ...
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
Casimê Celîl was born into a Yezidi Kurdish family in 1908, in a village called Kızılkule, located i...