Maya Annik Bedward – Black Zombie (2026)
A journey through cinema and history reveals how zombies evolved from Haitian spiritual traditions into Hollywood horror, exploring their deeper cultural significance as powerful symbols of...
View ArticleLina Makboul – Leila Khaled: Hijacker (2006)
A story about an extraordinary woman and her journey, the jury decided to award Lina Makboul´s film, Leila Khaled Hijacker the award for Best Film because of its nuanced politics of nationhood and...
View ArticleAlicia Cano – Bosco (2020)
Bosco is an Italian village of 13 inhabitants surrounded by chestnut trees that devour it day after day. Its forestial origin imposes itself also as its destiny. An ocean apart, in Uruguay, from his...
View ArticleSusan Sontag & Agnès Varda – Camera Three: Interview with Susan Sontag and...
On the occasion of the Seventh New York Film Festival, the arts program Camera Three filmed Jack Kroll of Newsweek interviewing Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda, both of whom had films showing in the...
View ArticleChristopher Nupen – Tchaikovsky’s Women and Fate (1988)
A two part Christopher Nupen film about the music and the artistic intentions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the greats and a composer who appeals to millions of people.The prime focus of both...
View ArticleSkip Blumberg – Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master [+ Extra] (2006)
Multimedia artist Nam June Paik broke the rules of art and television by bridging the gap between the two. Lessons from the Video Master helps illuminate Paik’s art and life. The film from video...
View ArticleYung Chang – Up the Yangtze (2007)
STORYLINE:A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze – navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in...
View ArticleCarlo A. Bachschmidt – Black Block (2011)
Quote:Genoa 2001: As the G8 Summit drew to a close and the press and politicians departed, 300 riot police stormed the Diaz School looking for members of the infamous Black Block. Director: Carlo A....
View ArticleDominique Dubosc – La présence AKA The Presence (1971)
Dr Peuteuil’s doctoral dissertation; an observation of autistic children. Quote:It is a closed world, revolving in on itself, unfolding without beginning or end. These children, separated, their jerky...
View ArticleSara Gómez – Y…tenemos sabor AKA And…We’ve Got Taste (1967)
Quote:The film explores Cuban music, its fundamental instruments, and their evolution through a conversation with Alberto Zayas—a musician and instrument maker—whose demonstrations of various rhythms...
View ArticleSara Gómez – Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia AKA Chronicle of My Family (1966)
A pioneer in the genre of autobiographical documentaries, this film made by the renowned Cuban director Sara Gómez explores her family roots to offer a family portrait through photos, popular music,...
View ArticleFederico Francioni & Gaël de Fournas – Akouchetame (2021)
SYNOPSIS Essaouira, Marocco. A narrator writes a letter in which he tells a story: a young woman that, losing his father, loose the world of her own cultural identity. Directors: Federico Francioni,...
View ArticleCharles Mountford – Tjurunga: The Story of Stone Age Man [1972 Version] (1946)
A central Australian journey was undertaken by the well-known naturalist, C. P. Mountford. On that journey he was accompanied by a group of First Nations people, who took him to their tribal lands and...
View ArticleFederico Francioni – Rue Garibaldi AKA Garibaldi Street (2021)
SYNOPSISInes and Rafik are twenty years old, they have been working since they were ten and they have recently moved in a Parisian suburb. They are of Tunisian origin but they grew up in Sicily. Their...
View ArticleDavid Munro – Viewpoint: The Four Horsemen – You Cannot Call This Peace (1986)
Exposing the lie that “nuclear weapons have kept the peace for 40 years”, this film suggests that World War III is not an apocalypse waiting to beset us but has in fact been taking place since...
View ArticleAna Poliak –¡Que vivan los crotos! AKA Long Live the Hobos (1990)
Quote:Austerous and dignified documentary with recreation of scenes and powerful images, about the life of the anarchic “linyeras” (hobos) of other times. Quote:One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi...
View ArticleRuben Gevorkyants & Krikor Hamel – Parajanov. Verjin kolazh AKA Parajanov....
Quote:Parajanov lifts the curtain on numerous unfinished scenes and fragments of unshot films. These are memories of his childhood, death, friends, Tiflis, Kyiv, Yerevan. Seven stories from the life...
View ArticleMegumi Nishikura & Lara Perez Takagi – Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in...
Quote:Mixed-race Japanese “hafus” experience diverse cultural identities. Some consider Japan home, others are newcomers, yet more balance dual backgrounds amid prejudices. Director: Megumi Nishikura,...
View ArticleFederico Francioni & Cheng Yan – The First Shot (2017)
Three young chinese, three distant and diverse existences caught in a same tension: the search for one’s own identity and the sense of “being” in a present of continuous transformation. All of them...
View ArticlePeter Kubelka – Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film (2002)
The only publicly available document of Peter Kubelka’s legendary “lecture performances” is entitled Film als Ereignis, Film als Sprache, Denken als Film (Film as Event, Film as Language, Thought as...
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