Mariem, 53, a former estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. Surrounded by women in far more precarious circumstances than herself, she tries to regard her unprecedented social downfall as an immersion in real life. By the time she leaves, Mariem’s view of the world will have changed forever, enriched by all the women she has met along the way.

In 1999, Colorado mother Jessica Gonzales experienced every parent’s worst nightmare when her three ...

Portrait of photographer Bengt Åke Kimbré where he narrates his own life story accompanied by his ph...

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He c...

7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gende...

Over many years, the director’s father filmed his family life almost obsessively. His daughter’s bir...

Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show u...

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such a...

His signature roles were the edgy North German characters: Jan Fedder was one of the most popular ac...

The story of the South Shore Resource and Advocacy Center, five survivors of domestic violence, and ...
How do you deal with life's curveballs? FIGURE 3 tells trapeze artist Korri Singh Aulakh's story of ...

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...
Fragments from a portrait of Jean-Louis Costes - sincere artist, versatile designer, poet of excess ...

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature....

Christy Martin broke boundaries and noses as she rose in the boxing world, but her public persona be...

The Finnish modern dancer Noora Hannula dances through this documentary film in her own explosive st...

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...