13. Parteitag der Liberal-Demokratischen Partei Deutschlands, Weimar 1982

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.

Heroes from the GDR's past are presented. Heroes will also be needed in the future.

A report on the work of a reservist collective from a factory of the Guben chemical fiber combine.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses.

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Leonardo da Vinci

Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the preliminary experiment, are exposed to ether vapors with the result that only the animal which had not been pretreated began to salivate (profusely).

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Le Théâtre National Populaire

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo

50 años de... Canciones

With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became the first conscientious objector in Galicia (Spain) to be put in prison. Now, nearly thirty years later, Two Years, Four Months, A Day takes a look at what made him do it.