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.
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of natu...

Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet tha...

Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced ...

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labo...

The story of unemployment in New Zealand and In A Land of Plenty is an exploration of just that; it ...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

From the Ministry of Economy to his candidacy in the presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron quickly...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no...

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, whil...

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