The Black Oud represents a subtle new direction in documentary. I have used the term 'bio-documentary' to describe this slight, though essential, difference between my film and the majority of personal or experimental documentaries made in the last decade.

“Poussières de Juillet”, produced in 1967 by Hachemi El-Chérif, is taken from a poem by Kateb Yacine...

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with ...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (pl...

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dan...

Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Mar...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

About the life and work of the poet Sergei Yesenin, his connection with his native country, its peop...

Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance sta...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the...

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from...

At the Blue Iguana, L.A.'s most notorious strip club, the lives of five exotic dancers converge, cla...

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian canc...