Close Ties

Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzisław would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.

2016-11-10 | pl

Ritratti: Andrea Zanzotto

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

2000-09-01 | it

Smog Wars

Following the historically smoggy Polish winter of 2016/2017, a Warsaw father of an asthmatic son searches for answers about why air pollution continues to be a major problem in Poland - and why solving the problem is easier said than done.

2018-12-02 | en

Middle of the Night

A young divorcée becomes involved with her widowed boss.

1954-09-09 | en

Mediocre

2022-06-17 | de

Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger

The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which was responsible for his care, as well as the long struggle of Indigenous activists to force the Canadian government to enforce “Jordan’s Principle” — the promise that no First Nations children would experience inequitable access to government-funded services again.

2019-09-10 | en

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

1974-05-01 | fr

Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche

Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an entire month to clean out the place. Among the chaos, they find films going back to the 1930s, photos and other memorabilia.

2007-04-05 | de

Dubaitjejer - betalt för att festa

2019-04-27 | sv

Elogio ao ½

2006-01-01 | pt

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

Dorothy Johnson was a Western writer ahead of her time. Women saved men, heroes died unwept and unsung, whites lived with Indians and benefited from the experience. Three of her stories were made into films and many critics consider "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" to be the cornerstone of the modern western. This documentary looks back on Dorothy's life, and her place in history.

2005-11-21 | en

Open Marriage

Becca and Ron's marriage is in a rut; it's been months since they've been intimate. When their friends Mindy and Max tell them they've been experimenting with an open marriage and it's done wonders, Becca and Ron are reluctant to the idea. But they can't deny their curiosity and the two couples switch partners for a night of wild pleasure.

2017-01-14 | en

Trade Center

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

2021-03-16 | en

A Merry Royal Christmas

A high-powered wedding planner is pulled in at the last minute to plan a royal wedding set for Christmas Day. She meets a handsome and alluring stranger, who she is shocked to later discover is the prince whose wedding she is planning.

2024-11-01 | en

Soft Targets

Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

1982-10-19 | en

Alone

A documentary-like film about Jussi Parviainen's divorce.

1990-02-23 | fi

Le Monde secret de la petite brique LEGO

2017-02-28 | fr

The Wikipedia Promise

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

2021-01-03 | de

The Invisible Network

A project about the architectural, cultural, and social heritage of the city of Buenos Aires. An investigation about the enigmatic "Casa del Angel", a castle that used to belong to Dr. Carlos Delcasse, and the winged figure in one of its balconies that attracted the attention of all the neighbors: the sculpture of an Angel, which disappeared after the demolition of the house.

2024-01-30 | es

Black Waters

“Aguas Negras” is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution of the river by focusing on conversations with multiple generations of women in the filmmaker's family that have grown up by the river in a municipality identified as having the highest perception of insecurity in the State of Mexico.

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