Decasia: The State of Decay

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Still

The documentary tells the story of Uschi, a farmer living free and recluded in the bavarian alps. Shot in epic black and white pictures, Still follows Uschi's life over a ten year period. From an untroubled summer of making cheese through pregnancy and the uncertain future of the parental farm, Matti Bauer portrays Uschi's struggle to keep alive the dream of a way of life that has become rather untypical in this day and age.

Timber Front

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.

A Sociedade Anonyma Fábrica Votorantim

Produced in 1922, this 9-part silent documentary is an important document of the beginnings of industrialization in Brazil and the conditions of workers at the time.

Bantu weiss nichts von Europa

A visit to the Bantu in Cameroon and the indigenous town of Kumbo. The living and working conditions of the Bantu and Bororo tribes are shown as part of this expedition.

experimento de tiempo y Trufas

Four unrelated moments following a young cat wandering the living room of her house.

CEGO_CIDADE

Images complement what is always lacking in words. The poems complement what is always present in the city. Freely inspired by the poetry Cidade City Cité, by Augusto de Campos.

Fulano de Tal

Smile

A heartwarming exploration of a community art project by photographer Tawfik Elgazzar providing free portraits for locals and passers-by in Sydney, Australia's Inner West. The film explores the nature of individuality, cultural diversity and the positive joy for the photographer of seeing his subjects smile.

La Course de taureaux

The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.

Dark Days

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Aguas Negras

“Aguas Negras” is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution of the river by focusing on conversations with multiple generations of women in the filmmaker's family that have grown up by the river in a municipality identified as having the highest perception of insecurity in the State of Mexico.

The Police Tapes

Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44th Precinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City at that time.

Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe

Short film about Ankara, Turkiye

Laci bježi u Mađarsku

Escaping is not as easy as you'd think.

Ludzie w drodze

A portrait of a traveling circus.

Goya

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

A, B, C... ZH

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.