Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation in ‘post post-revolutionary’ Egypt. Beginning with the return journey to Cairo of a filmmaker long absent from her own country, the film weaves a series of intimate portraits composed of interviews, poetic voice-over and dance; exploring themes of oppression, guilt and faith with Egyptian women, many of them artists. Reflecting on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ – in which the female figure is martyred by the patriarchal forces surrounding her – ‘Jeanne’ is a contemporary commentary that melds documentary and dance with poetic storytelling and myth to arrive at the core of the filmmaker’s enquiries into the circumstances of women in Egypt today.
Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They ...
René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn’t care about his parents (just...
Lada is a product of "educational“ or "corrective“ institutions. Not only is he not educated or cor...
An extremely rare subject by the famed still photographer. A 1934 short.
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Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Director/producer Olympia Stone explores the 46-year career of her father, Allan Stone, a famed New ...
Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary bri...
In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...
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The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): tw...
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Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the...
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...