40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what...

Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of t...

A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve ev...

Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their...

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norm...

A doctor's relationship with a terminally ill child adds pressure to her already rocky marriage as s...

In 2012 Dalya and her mother Rudayna fled Aleppo for Los Angeles as war took over. Months before, Ru...

A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A tale...

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nati...

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, som...

Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countrysi...

A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the re...

An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Austral...

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a ...