The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
The journey of eight diverse youth in China confronting cultural differences. Crossing Borders - Wid...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

A film about political ethics and legislative incompetence that follows one man's attempts to requir...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has been appointed to an official role within the White House, but wh...

An enduring myth in U.S. presidential election history is that George H.W. Bush only lost his re-ele...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey throu...

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life ...

In a fascinating geopolitical drama, Danish filmmaker Mik-Meyer closely follows Ravalomanana as he a...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...