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Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives are interwoven through the production of the silk and the beauty it creates. However, as the technology advances, the trade is threatened by computerization and globalization.

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.

The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of life. This documentary explores these unique art forms, and one Shipibo family's efforts to safeguard the tradition.

Uses high magnification photography to demonstrate the processes of converting raw fibers into woven cloth.

Männer und Feminismus. Geht das?

A pandemic, a time of hard lockdown, when contact with other people is severely limited. The most common means of communication are online conversations, which the director uses to talk to people who, like him, are stuck alone in their apartments.

Pédocriminels, la traque

When greedy property developers attempt to force the feisty 67-year-old Natalia off her small plot of land – a garden oasis in the midst of an apartment complex in Kyiv – she fights back, refusing to be defeated. When her entire country is subsequently invaded by ruthless land-grabbing individuals, her rebellious fight only grows stronger in spirit.

The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past, socially committed, who for years has offered outstanding performances.

Rommel, chef de guerre

Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé

Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to write.

This documentary is about Sadegh Hedayat an Iranian author. This movie is a collection of interviews with different people with some of his letters that show a picture from his birth to his death.

A born and bred New Yorker takes you on a personal and historical tour of the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhoods of NYC.

Interviews with single black parents.

María Luisa is a transgender woman living in a staunchly catholic town. The horrors of rural life in Colombia with all its morality have done nothing but increase the power of this solitary soul. Shunned from birth, from the womb, she has found in the secrets she holds, in her love of animals, in the labyrinth of her faith, a way of dealing with a world that has done nothing but despite her for reasons beyond her control, reasons that have victimized her from the start. But our Miss is as mighty as a stalk of wheat, impervious even to earthquakes, and although she has known much sorrow, there is none powerful enough to exhaust her tears or wipe away her smile.

In the middle of the Jordanian desert, a new tent city, Zaatari, has arisen. Through the eyes of four children, this exceptionally intimate and poetic film sees and feels what it is like to grow up in this unique locale.

Harvey Price is about to embark on a rite of passage that thousands of young people do every year: he is going to college. Harvey, who is disabled, is about to move three hours away from home and will have to adjust to life apart from his family. His mum Katie must face what it means to `let go' of her oldest child.