The Ta'ang or Palaung people, an ethnic minority living in the mountainous area between Myanmar's Kokang region and China's Yunnan province, have historically suffered many forced migrations due to war. When their survival is threatened again in 2015, thousands of them flee across the border. Filmmaker Wang Bing accompanies them and becomes a privileged witness to a human story that is both a modern reportage and a mythical epic.

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road tri...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebod...
Explores the plans for the construction of the monumental dam on China's Yangtze River, the structur...

Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. Wi...

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao w...

Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China ...

Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province af...

The city of Mariupolis is by the Azov sea. It is also on the river Kalmius. Most of the city’s resid...
In June 2010, French actress Marion Cotillard spent a week in the heart of the tropical forests of t...

A film about fireworks, the people who make them and the cultures behind them across the globe.

A harrowing account of Europe's migrant crisis. A family of Syrian refugees separated by the borders...
Short film directed by Walter Knoop

In his own way, Anatoli Ljutuk is a legend of Tallinn's Old Town - a man from Western Ukraine who ha...

A documentary showing a Chinese investor's attempts to turn a small regional airport in north east G...

Rafi, Salman, Said and Ali are all under 18 years old. They come from Afghanistan, Syria and Pakista...

For martial arts enthusiasts and fans of Jet Li, Yang Ching, and Wang Chun, this historical filmogra...

This film is an uncompromising portrait of a woman who no-one could have imagined in a position of p...

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...

The Chinese global machine has been invited to revitalise the ailing Swedish town of Kalmar. The tow...