Xu Xin’s film “Dao Lu” (China 2012) offers an exclusive “in camera” encounter with Zheng Yan, an 83 year-old veteran of the Chinese Red Army, who calmly relates how he has navigated his country’s turbulent history over three-quarters of a century.Born to a wealthy family in a foreign concession, Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project, and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deep-rooted corruption.

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major pow...

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...

Jesus Was a Commie presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical jo...

One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping want...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...