In Natpwe, the feast of the spirits, co-directors Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel have produced an immersive, seemingly timeless document of an annual Burmese trance ritual that dates back to the eleventh century. Shot in Super 8 and 16mm in sooty black and white, the film conveys the astonishing sense of liberation of tens of thousands of bodies and minds — a mass expression of faith, but also a rapturous respite from societal intolerance.
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she...

A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities,...
2015 featurette documentary behind the experience of Nightmare and grindhouse cinema.

Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly ...

Putito is a production with no specific genre, where reality and fiction blend through a testimony w...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pe...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

This short documentary introduces us to a town where no one pays rent: Simoom Sound in central Briti...

This short film demonstrates how Howard Shore has distinguished himself as one of Canada's most acco...

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to...

Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompani...

A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...
Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want ...

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lód...

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school ...
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.