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.
For four years (1977-1981) Esaias Baitel documented a violent Parisian neo-Nazi gang. Having gained ...

"It's simple! We do as we're told." This disconcerting reply comes from a Swedish employment office ...

Two women in a living room: smoking, playing cards, listening to the radio. As often in Dwoskin’s fi...

In 1952, Amédée took his own life by jumping into the Seine. No one knows the reason for this tragic...

Documentary showing the efforts to bring cinema to marginalized communities in Mexico.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions...

Another Young Couple — borne out of a camera test for If Beale Street Could Talk, James and I asked ...

Solarmax is a 40-minute giant-screen documentary that tells the story of humankind's struggle to und...

Get to know a little bit about Paulo Moreira, sign painter from the metropolitan region of Belo Hori...

Antonio Gracia José (1942-2011), known as “Pierrot,” was a prominent member of the Barcelona art sce...

An homage to Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, shot at the Museum of Death.

As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitr...

This anti-homosexual social "scare" short film focuses on the dangers of young boys talking to stran...

A film crew trails Philbert Powell through his morning, from the supermarket to his job at a video s...
Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.

One morning, Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic exper...

In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.

A visually expressive documentary about salt mining and its perils - done in a style that most subve...

Part film, part baptism, in BLACK MOTHER director Khalik Allah brings us on a spiritual journey thro...