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.

Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...

In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today,...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...
A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik (and later Worker’s Opposition) revolutionary leader Alex...

The Chinese company Huawei wants to expand 5G worldwide and is well advanced in the development of t...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...
How did the end of the Soviet Union change the way of thinking, the way of behaviour of militant Fre...

On June 20th, 1971, thousands of Spanish Republicans from all around Europe meet up in Montreuil, Fr...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

Footage of Wuhan, China, during the coronavirus quarantine.

Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed foreve...

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 ...