Oases are more than fairytale places in the desert sand. Amidst the stony heights of the Andes, the endless expanse of the Pacific, or the hectic concrete sausages of Mumbai, islands of life flourish. In breathtaking shots, the documentary explores the phenomenon of oases – and the magical places in the Saharan sand are of course included.

This film is an initiatory journey among the Fangs of Gabon and the Shipibos of Peru. With the sound...

The camera falls in love with the characters, the landscape and the objects and is installed with th...

A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile B...

Travel to ancient Egypt to see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar, and alig...
The anti-Slumdog Millionaire in documentary form, "Buzz" charts the tumultuous rise of India's most ...

It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the...

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd is not Godot, and the expectation promised by the title is misleading: this gr...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

Salango is a small parish south of Manabí. What this land means to Ecuador, however, is huge. Its na...
Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a ...

An exploration of the 'respectable' and 'immoral' stereotypes of women in Indian society told from t...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

This film describes the nature and impact of major religions in India, artistic monuments and contri...

Egypt's Great Pyramid may be humanity's greatest achievement: a skyscraper of stone built without co...

Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as...

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
The work of a district officer in the province of Bengal.

Journey alongside a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India.

Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares fo...

Journey across India, a breath taking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs and traditions. C...