In 1909, in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born and given the name of Hervor. Her mother is unmarried, due to which she is called a "whore' and is driven from her home. Hervor grows up at shelters and orphanages, unwanted, rejected by society. As an adult she spends her life struggling for social justice. In old age she tells us her story. Director Knutte Wester brings his grandmother's memories to life thought hand-painted animated images and has us witness someone being rejected in order to unite others. A story that all too often still repeating itself.

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...

A newborn monkey and its mother struggle to survive within the competitive social hierarchy of the T...

Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's s...

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to ...

Renée Nyberg meets the man behind the terrorist act in Bali in 2002 and the Swedes who were there an...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes in...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Svitlana, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, examines the colonised part of her consciousness and tries t...

Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

Intercepted is a journey through Ukraine that reveals the banality of evil behind the Russian invasi...