“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly...

When US-raised Jaden returns to his birthplace Myanmar, to search for his roots, he discovers a shoc...

Christmas Island, Australia is home to one of the largest land migrations on earth—that of forty mil...

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A musical oddessy through the heart of Africa in search of the roots of Rock & Roll.

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Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,0...

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Ala...

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...

A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literat...

In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They imposed one of the strictest interpretations ...

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Saman...

Yael Hersonski's powerful documentary achieves a remarkable feat through its penetrating look at ano...
A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with...

A cinema verite study of the world of the blue-collar worker and the economic and psychological bind...
Profile of choreographer, composer and performer Meredith Monk, recorded on location in her home bas...