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.

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncerta...

An experimental short film, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, made by one person. Using recorded sc...

Made for screening at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane Washington, USA, which h...

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.
Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want ...

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lód...

Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school ...
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.

Through testimonies and images, the crude reality of human rights in Argentina in democracy is portr...

During the summer of 1980, the American jazz concert pianist Kazzrie Jaxen writes a 16 pages long le...

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars...

A film that conveys some of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s philosophical ideas.

A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
Short news featurette produced by Pathe-RKO after the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite...
A short lyrical document about an ancient Oriental discipline, this film moves from the streets of C...