In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily bread is a constant struggle. But the sense of community shared by the inhabitants there helps them to some extent overcome their hardships through a social practice known as ‘al Gami’ya’, or ‘the assembly’.
Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the...
Showmen riding cinema lorries have brought the wonder of the movies to faraway villages in India onc...
A democracy should protect its most vulnerable citizens, but increasingly the United States is faili...
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...
Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They ...
René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn’t care about his parents (just...
Lada is a product of "educational“ or "corrective“ institutions. Not only is he not educated or cor...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various prof...
Lenka and Míra Hřib are a young married couple with two small children. They are both interested in ...
An observational documentary about Jakub Špalek and all his activities, victories and losses in the ...
A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular...
Heda Blochová was born in Prague into the Jewish family of the cofounder of the well-known Koh-i-noo...
Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with an open-mic poet provocateu...
Short documentary on the Cambodian Handicraft Association which trains and supports women who have b...
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox fo...
A documentary on the German Women Football National Team and the 2011 FIFA World Championship in Ger...
The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominat...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...