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Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

In her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...

Istanbul Film Festival

A unique record of the visit to Istanbul in 2002 of legendary German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch, and her Tanztheater de Wuppertal company, a visit which inspired the performance piece 'A Breath.' It provides a fascinating backstage look at a work in progress and ...

Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film Festival

First, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...

Cinéma du Réel
CPX:DOX

Returning home, experiencing time, exploring traces from the past. Miguel Hilari, from Bolivia, uses his camera to look into the past, and created with El corral y el viento a film that seems like a portrait of another time. Hilari returned to the Aymara village of his fat...

Winner Venice Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival

Take 1917 and substitute the trenches of war with the winding alleys of a Filipino slum, and you've got Engwkentro which follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape a city controlled by an iron-fis...

Cannes Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Moscow Film Festival

Dark clouds hang over the island of Fogo. An evacuation order has been issued as a result of an increasing decay of the local community. People leave, often reluctantly, but they submit to their fate. And so do tw...

The daily reality of life on the hilltops of the West Bank, The Hilltops is an insider's exploration into the lives of three prominent settler leaders and their battles to hold on to what they perceive as their biblical heart land.

Canada - 2011 - 45m
Directed By: Igal Hecht
Written By: Igal Hecht

Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc

A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...

Cannes Film Festival
Berlin Internatonal Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival

In this nearly wordless children’s fable, a red balloon forms a life of its own and starts to follow a young boy through his daily activities around the streets of Paris.

France - 1956 - 34m
Directed By:...

Over the course of three years, Martha Burns and Susan Coyne filmed the late theatre director Robin Phillips and performer Mark McKinney (The Kids in the Hall) rehearsing a piece from Shakespeare’s Richard III at Robin’s home outside of Stratford. Eventually joined by the actor Christine Horne, a...

Foyle Fim Festival Official Selection
Gloria Film Festival Official Selection

There is a place in the hills of Northwest Ireland, a land called Inishowen, where the Clan O'Dochartaigh once held unshakeable sway. They occupied castles and keeps along the winding Irish countryside. They fought wit...

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...

Berlin International Film Festival

Fanon is an ambitious young Black African filmmaker attending the Durban International Film Festival. Directors Mpumelelo Mcata and Perivi Katjavivi convey how she tries desperately to find a producer to fund her debut feature film. The film accurately portrays...

BFI Flare
Cucalorus Film Festival
Framline Film Festival

Based on a true story, Torrey Pines is an inventive, wonderfully imaginative coming-of-age tale taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. The animated film focusses on the filmmaker Clyde Petersen's childhood over the course...