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.

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of maki...

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

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

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...
A Woman's Place is the first film about the UK women's liberation movement. Crockford and her co-pro...

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascen...

The film exposes the links between Agrifood and politics. With a pool of international experts it an...

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

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

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

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

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...
Two daughters of North African immigrants, born in Marseilles, who are barely over thirty years old,...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the fir...