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.

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Ju...

In this inspirational documentary we witness the contributions of nine remarkable women to the islan...

Told through the eyes of an Australian news reporter, Eammon Ashton-Atkinson, who moved to the UK to...

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her...

Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest g...

20 years after the fall of the Wall, the economic crisis prevails. In the ruined peripheral areas of...

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

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

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

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

Somewhere in Myanmar is a forest rich in amber and controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA)....

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

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...

What does the world's richest man, dedicated chaos agent, and Donald Trump's new best buddy want out...

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

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

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach ...