Every year, five to ten percent of all deceased Berliners are buried by the authorities because no relatives are found. Most of them are put into the ground by mortician Bernd Simon going alone. But sometimes companions do turn up and say goodbye in their very own way. An observational documentary about an undertaker who actually wanted to become an entertainer, a bizarre city portrait and a mirror of how we deal with death, mourning and commemoration.


A strange and mischievous documentary on an archeological site in the Qaytarieh hills in Tehran. Thi...

Documentary about young people who are dedicated to cleaning windshields in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to...

Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly ...

A dazzling journey through time via the remarkable images of National Geographic photographer Frans ...

6-18-67 is a short quasi-documentary film by George Lucas regarding the making of the Columbia film ...

ATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the dea...

From leaving Egypt 10 years ago, to almost dying a month ago in a car accident. This film is about t...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...

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

Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and...

This documentary chronicles the inspirational story of a man who would not accept "no" for an answer...

For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of ha...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

Wales prides herself in her wealth of natural resources, foundries, mills, and factories. Beyond thi...

First short film directed by Taffarel. A large wooden sled is carried by a farmer to the top of Moun...

Pitch Black takes us inside the claustrophobic worlds of three young men immersed in the online blac...

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although sco...

For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because...
Short documentary directed by Günter Schlesinger