Writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar explores Algerian history, the psychological impact of war, and post-colonial female identity in this 1979 classic of film literature. Named for (and taking its structure from) a traditional song with five distinct movements, the film combines documentary-style observation with loose narrative form to tell the story of Lila, an Algerian expatriate returning to her country 15 years after independence has been won. In comparing her life with the lives and experiences of rural Algeriennes, Lila is able to put her childhood demons to rest and discover a new history -- one written in the ongoing strength of generations of women. Like much of Djebar's writing, the film has a strong subtext dealing with resistance to patriarchy and women's desire to appropriate the means of power and expression -- one of which, of course, is the filmmaker's camera.
Documentary about the Szymon Wiesenthal Center and the obstacles, often set by governments not inter...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, El...

A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hu...

The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys is the colourful and surprising true story of a man named ...

It is a documentary story about five legends of russian cinema: Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Okunevskay...

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man...

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

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

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his m...

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom h...

A documentary about the outcome of a decision made by a brother and sister in 1945. One missed meeti...
A compilation of found footage from musicals, home movies, animated shorts, educational films, comme...

Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, thro...

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...