Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...

A deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusic...

French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...

In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward ...

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...

The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afgha...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director We...

Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. ...

A documentary that reveals the underbelly of the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex ...

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one noto...

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...

The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, s...

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child...