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.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

The Falklands War began on April 2, 1982, with the Argentine landing on the islands ordered by Leopo...

Redheads. Fire crotches… This film collects samples of their testimonials and their body hair and sk...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Having lost her memory, A. could barely recall glimpses of her childhood in Argentina. After her dea...

A Catholic priest discovers that he was born to Jewish parents

Fleeing the 1980 Civil War in El Salvador, Dora Rodriguez, among a group of twenty-five asylum seeke...

Time Machine: Banned from the Bible in 2003. Banned from the Bible discusses the ancient books that ...

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short f...

For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of ha...

Battered Warsaw is getting back to life after the WW2 destruction. The ruins of the Old Town become ...
Short documentary on Poland's first steam locomotive.
A miniature parable about a young boy who misunderstands the function of a bird feeder.

It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis an...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...