A State of Blackness: Aimé Césaire’s Way

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

Die weiße Gefahr

The women of the first Garífuna community in Honduras work hard for the future of their daughters. Surrounded by a dazzling landscape, they celebrate their identity and the importance of maternal figures.

Documentary on the négritude movement through one of its founders, Aimé Césaire.

A Arte de Ser

Black Out - A História Apagada no Palco da Arte

No Fim do Déjà Vu

Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.

Special broadcast of Aimé Césaire's text, directed by Hervé Denis for the Cooperation and Cultural Action Mission of the French Embassy in Haiti.

Sola

EXÓTICOS

After finishing his will, hours before his death, a widowed former soldier realizes he cannot remember the last time he cried. To find his tears, he will stir his emotions by chasing buried gestures and feelings.

Presents highlights of a workshop for young directors conducted by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996) in Amsterdam during the summer of 1994, inclusive of interviews with Kieślowski himself. The theme of the workshop was the direction of actors. For a fortnight, various groups worked every day on a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film, 'Scenes from a Marriage.'

One Hour With Kozintsev

A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films featuring Aleynikov and interviews with his closest friends and colleagues.

Few movements in music have gained as much critical mass as house music. Pump Up The Volume: A History of House Music is a fantastic 2001 documentary about one of the biggest music groundswells in history, which began in basements and ended up at the forefront of pop culture. The film traces house music from its early days as New York disco to its takeover of Europe’s dance scene through fascinating interviews with the people who propelled the movement and rare footage of the clubs where it came of age.

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

The reasons the Beatles broke up are extremely well documented and even at the height of their animosity none of the band ever blamed Yoko Ono for it - so why is this still a thing?

Canada Mania

Documentary footage capturing a real event of a film student who has just begun hurriedly editing his thesis before the faculty’s screening deadline. Everything seems to be going well, until he realizes that… a crucial audio file for his work has gone missing.