After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned members of the Islamic State, alternating their words with aerial views of the countryside. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematic object.

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

A journey through six different countries and characters into a world where chemistry is the ultimat...

Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives al...

In this poetic portrayal of Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), a master of contemporary photography, the dire...

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the traditio...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

The former talk show host speaks out from behind the glass at an assisted living facility where a re...

The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of ban...

16-year-old Bella and Vipulan are part of a generation convinced its very future is in danger. Betwe...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...