While capturing Brazil's spirit in 1942, Orson Welles confronts unexpected tragedy with the death of the Jangadeiros' l…
Bridging two generations of filmmakers, this intimate journey revisits a remote Greek island, encapsulating its transfo…
This Documentary is a fusion of past and present, delving into the resonating rhythms of Brazil's sugar cane fields, we…
In a village divided, a dedicated caretaker seeks to rejuvenate an abandoned Catholic seminary, once a vibrant center o…
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this documentary sheds light on one of the most tumultuous times in Chile’s history and t…
This film essay by Adam Kossoff mixes images from The Paris Exposition of 1937 with literary excerpts from works by Wal…
Through a collage of images taken by tourists in exotic territories, this documentary questions the "tourist eye" as a …
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
When filmmaker Al Díaz discovers old films from his parents' trip to Italy in his youth, he begins an essay on memory a…
Through archival footage of the television show her mother hosted in post-Soviet Bulgaria, filmmaker Elitza Gueorguieva…
Snippets of cell phone videos, scattered sounds, pixelated images. These are the loose pieces that remind us of Nico, t…
Twenty years after World War II, Norway is once again living in fear after a series of terrorist attacks. It is 1965 an…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
Investigating the involvement of a mysterious ancestor in the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, filmmaker Anna Kryve…
A collection of super8 films takes Joachim Michaud to the New York where Emilienne, an adventurous woman who could be h…
Dragan Jaćimović was the first Serbian man to reach the summit of Everest. This documentary uses excerpts from his diar…
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi investigates hours of home videos recorded by her father before he died. A magnetic essay, as…
The film scraps of unfinished movies that remained forgotten in the film museum in Buenos Aires come to life in this pr…
Using film footage from different periods, this essay on family memory and documentation compiles films sent as postcar…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
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