The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, has been living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears that the fellow Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is also living in exile in Germany, faces death threats and has to hide because of one of his songs, she doesn't hesitate and has to find him. On her search she encounters fear everywhere. Narges Kalhor has to face her inconvenient memories of suppression, hatred and anger for her past in Iran.

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomein...

Drawing on VHS tapes of a programme hosted by her mother on Bulgaria’s national television, the film...

Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.
In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amste...

Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A l...

Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Ot...
Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based ...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...

The creation of Iannis Xenakis’ « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival. There are on...

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

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of t...

A harrowing exploration of the rapid rise of American religious fanaticism after 9/11. This film exp...

Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest ...

The lives of people plagued by irrational fears and the journeys they take in the battle to overcome...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...
In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branche...

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...

A poetic, semi-autobiographical short film of the sun setting over a village, shot from behind the c...