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.

An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlis...

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

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

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...

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound ...
In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amste...

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lag...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

WORM AND WEB LOVE begins with bracketed light, a throbbing worm in the sand and sea foam mixed with ...

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of t...

Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of t...

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

Fog has a curious effect on cinema. On the one hand, it precludes the production of those images tha...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two ...