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

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

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...
In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branche...
In Fear, documentary filmmaker Michiel van Erp creates a collage of inhabitants of the city of Amste...

The rare short film presents a curious dialogue between filmmaker Julio Bressane and actor Grande Ot...

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An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of...

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

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Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his ...

Anne Bean, John McKeon, Stuart Brisley, Rita Donagh, Jamie Reid and Jimmy Boyle are interviewed abou...

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in res...

The last woman on Earth: Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, Urth forms a cinematic meditation on ...

The reception ebbs and flows as the unfamiliar landscape whirls by the window of a plane or train or...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.
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