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In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.

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Interviews in a big Parisian hotel with actresses who had their hour of glory. These former movie stars each describe the character who made them famous and tell what they became.

A verlan discussion in a cafe between two young people about a motorbike and girls.

Joel, an 11-year-old boy, will guide us through the forest of the Popocatépetl volcano and with his childlike wisdom leaves us lessons on a natural life.

A look at the Attersee in Austria.

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Es kann in der Klasse nur einer reden!

In this video essay, the filmmaker reflects on the contrast between himself and the space around him, a student dormitory.

47 Days, Sound-less by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a film that explores the relationships between sound and silence, vision, language, colours and their absence. Nguyễn identifies “peripheries”—including natural landscapes used as backdrops, uncredited characters and soundtracks from American and Vietnamese movies—that reveal more-than-human perspectives. Offering new ways of looking and listening, 47 Days, Sound-less invites audiences to reflect on the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants.

Norwegische Wasserfälle

This Academy Award-nominated film takes a moving personal story, illuminates it with insight and humor, and makes it universal. In recounting her attempts to come to terms with her mother's advancing Alzheimer's disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child, and the tenacity of love.

Slender Existence is the first-ever personal film about surviving anorexia nervosa. Filmmaker Laura Murray interweaves her own fractured recollections of starvation with those of her family and closest high school friend - all of whom rally to her support. This intimate and touching self-portrait shows a family dealing with a child's eating disorder - and that child growing into a healthy adult.

Samba de Memorias

Two ancient rituals passed down through sacred spaces. Two teachers, mentors, and curators. It turns out Japanese tea ceremony and rock music have more in common than you’d think.

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style it conveys much about the social attitudes of this era, and the spirit in which those services were conceived and delivered.

Describes the activities of the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company in Scunthorpe, the largest unit in the United Steel group.

No Ward is a short documentary about the forced migration of New Orleans residents to cities in Texas. The film juxtaposes the migrations that occurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav in 2008.

An animated documentary about a memorable event: in spring 1997, a coloring contest is launched for the release of a new variety of ketchup.