The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh, situated in...

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, "Ouvertures" follows a coll...

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible i...

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy...

Maverick underground American/Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls an...

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to hav...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into...

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up tem...

Two neigbors inhabit an idiomatic world and discover affection.

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie ...

A 1-minute film about the experience of young immigrant children having to translate for their paren...

On a hot summer day, a young man from Philadelphia goes for an afternoon dip; when he is 40 feet fro...

This documentary, which includes testimonies from architects, urban planners, and specialists, as we...

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...

A mini documentary about two of the world's earliest filmmakers that were forgotten by time.

"Sister death" explores the tension between the ritual and the everyday through the figure of Ariel,...

In this hypnotic odyssey, the ancient monasteries of Armenia’s highlands bear traces of epochs past....