According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be told, the forgotten account of a diverse and progressive country, seen through the lens of innovative filmmakers, a story that survives thanks to a few brave Afghans, a small but very passionate group that secretly fought to save a huge film archive that was constantly menaced by war and religious fanaticism.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...

Spanish filmmaker David Trueba travels to New York to interview Woody Allen, who reviews his filmogr...

Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army loca...

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting wh...

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against ...

An experimental portrait of Fernando Fernán Gómez, one of the most renowned Spanish artists of all t...

Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. ...

A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William S...

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert...

A couple decides to watch Big, a successful film released in 1988, starring Tom Hanks and directed b...

Caroline Darian, Gisèle Pelicot's daughter, looks back on the tragedy that shook her family: for ten...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subje...

The Heart of Man is a timeless tale of a father's relentless pursuit of his son -- interwoven with i...

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...

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