Les Rendez-vous du Diable is a most unusual documentary that quickly reveals Read More »
Documentary
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived / Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (1974) Heiny Srour
This film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former Read More »
World Without Sun / Le monde sans soleil (1964) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Pierre Bidault, Louis Bidegant, Christian Bonnici
Fascinating underwater documentary filmed with hand-held cameras by frogmen Read More »
Master, a Building in Copacabana / Edifício Master (2002) Eduardo Coutinho, Fernando José
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana Read More »
Coup 53 (2019) Taghi Amirani, Ralph Fiennes, Walter Murch, Winston Churchill
A real-life cliff-hanger thriller, this daring documentary dissects the 1953 British-American coup Read More »
About Baghdad (2004) Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi
About Baghdad is the first film made about Iraq after the fall of the Ba’ath regime in July 2003. Read More »
African Apocalypse (2020) Rob Lemkin, Toby Stephens, Stephane Cornicard, Femi Nylander
Poet Femi Nylander investigates the atrocities committed across the West African Read More »
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021) Bianca Stigter, Helena Bonham Carter, Glenn Kurtz, Moszek Tuchendler
A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives Read More »
Indoctrination / Die Schulung (1987) Harun Farocki
This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to “sell themselves” better. Read More »
Berlin-Stettin (2009) Volker Koepp
The director revisits places of his own past. Born in 1944 in Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) Read More »