In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

An Allied medic, rumored to be Jesus Christ, gets into a philosophical debate with a Catholic-Nazi i...
A secret culture of foragers hunt the Matsutake, a coveted Japanese mushroom worth up to $1,000 a po...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from deali...

Considerations on collage as a cognitive act in artists’ cinema. A pedagogical film adrift: 35mm pho...

In WWII's final years, a soldier in the German army, a British glider pilot, and a Dutch resistance ...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Featuring excerpts from diaries and letters written by local residents and soldiers from both sides,...
This documentary brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. ...

For Filmmaker Film Festival (2023), Fulvio Baglivi and Cristina Piccino asked some filmmakers (R. Be...

The film is set during World War II in a German-occupied European country. In a covered truck on a s...
Documentary short showcasing the genius of jazz greats Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Cozy Cole, and...

The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywo...