Optimism

APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by...

A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many...

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

East meets West in this observation of the anime cosplay culture in Tokyo, Japan.

A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat...

A day and night in the life of three alcoholic derelicts: "and the meek shall inherit the earth - six feet of it".

Both an activist and a documentarian, Valentina Pedicini also brings her background in anthropology to this impressively captured, claustrophobic...

Peter Hutton’s essay on the naturalization of the urban landscape. Voluptuously gray, worn and lived in, the city is like a stage set for an...

Moving Together is a celebratory love letter to music and dance that brims with kinetic life and energy. This documentary explores the intricate...

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....

Documenting the creative brilliance and passion of three stand-up comedians working the comedy club circuit in the “flyover zones” of...

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland.

The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of...

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

The film sheds light on the topic of the high divorce rate among young people in the form of journalistic statements and scenes as well as...

In 1971, inmates at Attica State Prison seized control of D-yard and took 35 hostages after peaceful efforts for reforms failed. Attica investigates...

This film was shot during Easter 1985. It shows the preparation and staging of the Passion in the village of Norogachic, Mexico. The initiation rites...

Rites of winter, rites of peyote. A creative documentary based on texts by Antonin Artaud read by Jean Rouch, and the words of the last...

Second chapter of La fêlure du temps. "As a child, I loved to dance. I remember a time we lived in happiness"