What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines animation, performance, and experimental techniques to create a visually arresting and psychologically penetrating exploration of the insidious impact of Western beauty standards and media-created ideals on African women’s perceptions of themselves. From hair-straightening to skin-lightening, YELLOW FEVER unpacks the cultural and historical forces that have long made Black women uncomfortable, literally, in their own skin.

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short f...
One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through his life. The film begins i...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founde...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

A herd of war-torn and hungry rats tries to get an answer to the question of who is Lili Marleen fro...

A museum guard is doing his night patrol when a tiny nun breaks into the museum and starts censoring...

Film directed from the play "Orpheon", directed by François Tanguy, played by the Compagny of Raft.

From leaving Egypt 10 years ago, to almost dying a month ago in a car accident. This film is about t...

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertai...

Film Title Poem is comprised of over 500 film title cards.

An exodus of migrants settled in Tijuana and they hope to cross each day regardless of the consequen...

Tian Soepangat joins the U.S. Navy out of a commitment to helping others. As a Muslim, Tian is uncer...

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...

In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. ...

During the 1977 World Series, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the pl...