A Living Culture(2022)

Boca Fechada(pt)

Amores Bonitos Demais Para Se Esconder(pt)

With the aim of studying sexuality and the role of disciplinary power in controlling the female body for a Philosophy of Communication course, the short follows accounts by non-straight women about their process of discovering their sexuality and acceptance.

A Family(fr)

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

La Ferme des Bertrand(fr)

1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, they were the subject of Gilles Perret's first movie, as they let their farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Nowadays, 25 years later, Gilles Perret take another look at this farm, managed by Hélène who will step down. Through their words, an intimate, social and economic history of the rural world.

Secrets of the Parthenon(en)

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.

Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence(fr)

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

Seeds of Hope(en)

A look at food security in the Hawaiian islands

The Universe: God and the Universe(en)

Where did the universe come from and did a creator have a hand in making it? As scientists learn more about the universe, our ideas about exactly what God made (the earth, the universe, the multi-verse even nothing but empty space) have come into question.

Eurotrauma: Skinny Puppy Live in Europe 1986(en)

A hand-filmed 32-minute documentary of the Skinny Puppy's 1988 'Head Trauma' tour of Europe by Dwayne Rudolph Goettel. Edited by Nivek Ogre in 2005.

Mika Nakashima The First Tour 2003 Live & Document(ja)

Concert film and documentary from Mika Nakashima's First Tour 2003 performed on February 23, 2003 at Zepp Tokyo.

Mai Kuraki & Experience First Live Tour 2001 ETERNAL MOMENT(ja)

Live concert documentary that was filmed during her "Sokenbicha Natural Breeze 2001 Happy Live" tour. In addition to the live show, it contains extensive backstage and behind-the-scenes footage. It also includes live perfomrance fragments from the 6 venues throughout Japan of her first tour.

North Shore Betty(en)

The misty forests above North Vancouver, British Columbia are hallowed ground for mountain biking, a place so harrowing it’s influenced every aspect of the sport for over 30 years. It’s also where Betty Birrell, at age 45, picked up mountain biking after a career as a mountaineer and professional windsurfer. Three decades later, the single mother is a role model for her son, her friends and anyone she’s met along the way – and proof that you’re never too old to send.

Phoolan(en)

Phoolan is a documentary film about the extraordinary life of a village girl, gang-rape survivor, bandit leader, and finally parliamentarian. This is the story of one woman’s fight against incredible odds for justice and dignity. Known as India’s Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi is considered by many to be one of the most extraordinary and controversial women of our time.

Der volkseigene Bürgermeister(de)

Controlling Britney Spears(en)

Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.

Replay(en)

Older adults cannot believe the things younger people do, but they probably have forgotten they were the same way when they were younger.

In Transition 2.0(en)

In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places.

Den förbjudna gangsterrappen(sv)

Le Trésor sacré d'Hitler(fr)

Deadtime Stories Documentary(en)

A documentary on the work of experimental British animator David Anderson.