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.
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wist...

On June 20th, 1971, thousands of Spanish Republicans from all around Europe meet up in Montreuil, Fr...
How did the end of the Soviet Union change the way of thinking, the way of behaviour of militant Fre...

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the...

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latv...

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...

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

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China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock m...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

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