
14 Nov 2005

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.
A visually expressive documentary about salt mining and its perils - done in a style that most subversively evokes a certain then-current official Spanish cinema, made to sell the fascist nation as a holiday paradise. The final image of some boys with a fighting cock is more devastating than hopeful.
14 Nov 2005
Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.
30 Apr 2020
A short documentary about a homeless couple who face the ban on being on the street during 2020 quarantine. Just through their eyes, the two protagonists show us a different Milan, silent and suspended.
01 Jan 2013
A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded." A homage to Paulo Rocha and Kenji Mizoguchi, filming the director's two tombs, one in Tokyo and the other in Quioto.
19 Oct 2019
Manel has been kissed by all the old women in the village. From the passion of Christ to the olive trees in the Catalan countryside, a landscape of resistance that evokes a sour humour, and at the same time a silence from times gone by.
01 Oct 1950
Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.
30 Dec 2011
For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only ones to laugh? In the past, scientists tended to neglect such questions of laughter, leaving them to the philosophers. Jacques Mitsch's A NATURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER explores recent scientific attempts to explicate this most elusive of human faculties, undertaken by scientists who see it as a means of approaching some of the larger mysteries of neurology and human behavior.
12 Jun 1968
No overview found
07 Nov 2024
The Water Map is an essayistic journey through the ethnography and landscapes of the Region of Murcia. These places are in the process of disappearing due to the increasing and abundant agricultural exploitation. Water has marked the territory and the culture of the area, and with its disappearance, the memories of four characters fade away.
17 Oct 2019
Adults reflect on the experience of losing a parent at a young age.
13 Jun 1955
At the end of 1954, Eduardo Ducay, Juan Julio Baena and Carlos Saura travelled to the region of Sanabria (province of Zamora) to make a commissioned documentary on the construction of a system of reservoirs. Much of the filmed material was unusable due to a technical problem, but Ducay rescued part of it and combined it with voice-over to construct a work on absences.
21 Apr 2015
Documentary on the making of Hammer's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
18 Aug 2022
An intimate look into Demers family's experience raising children while dealing with the societal stigmas around disabilities and the consequences of Alberta's forgotten experiment in eugenics.
03 Jun 1980
This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
05 Oct 1976
Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife.
31 Oct 2010
No overview found
01 May 2024
Animated short documentary following a young woman's diagnosis of bipolar: a journey of self-acceptance to challenge everyday stigma. In "Trust Me", a genre-bending short documentary, a young woman uses humour and compassion to share her moving and deeply personal story of coming to terms with her mental health condition. When she starts exhibiting atypical and extreme behaviour, her loved ones trick her into hospitalisation against her will. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder which starts her challenging journey of self-acceptance, confronting internalised and societal stigma, and learning to trust herself and others again.
16 Apr 1946
Documentary film about artist Henri Matisse
21 Sep 2017
Imagine how life must be for someone whose skin has no protection whatsoever from the sun. And now imagine living in a country that averages over 80% sunshine during any given year. Welcome to Paulus's life in Namibia.
07 Jul 2017
50 years ago the Volkswinkel - the People's Shop - opened for business in Rehoboth. The man behind the success story is Oom Land. Here you get to meet him.
02 Jan 1981
Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.