Documentary

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.Read More »

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The documentary film ‘Where Do Old People Live’, commissioned in 1931 by Dutch architect Mart Stam, shows the modern and forward-looking architecture of the Budge Home in Frankfurt. Its residents live in spacious, light-filled rooms and are accommodated in single rooms with state-of-the-art facilities. The film focuses on presenting architecture that promotes social interaction among residents through its spatial structure.Read More »

The second short film directed by António Reis in partnership with producer César Guerra Leal premiered at the Ódeon cinema in Lisbon on January 29, 1964. It is presumed to have been commissioned by the Cávado Hydroelectric Plant, as it reveals various aspects of the construction of the dam network in that river basin.Read More »

Commissioned by the Porto City Council, Painéis do Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between the river and downtown, commented with poems by authors like Vasco de Lima Couto, Egito Gonçalves, Rosália de Castro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Fernando Pessoa and Reis himself.Read More »

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The film portrays unemployed people who buy cheap fruit and vegetables at the wholesale market to resell them on the streets of Frankfurt. Without police permission, the traders are constantly on the run with their wooden carts. Parts of the film were shot at the fairground next to the wholesale market hall. Newspaper and lottery ticket sellers, propagandists offering their wares for a few pennies, convey the mood of a time when hardship made people inventive.Read More »

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Tadeusz has devoted his life to photography, especially photo reportages. Now he has grown old and passes on his art to Michal, a highly motivated 15-year-old. They go on a trip together, travelling through Polish villages in their van with the built-in dark chamber, portraying the people they meet. Their black-and-white photos add up to a visual travel diary. Piotr Stasik has found his own poetic way of capturing the work of Tadeusz Rolke, who used to work for “Spiegel” and “Stern”: as a documentary road movie that also seems to be a trip through time. From the start this enterprise radiates an old-fashioned quality. And this is not just about the good old analogue image. When the developed photos are strung across the empty market square on a clothesline, they enable simple encounters that could never happen on Facebook.Read More »

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Ella Bergmann-Michel abandoned her last film, Wahlkampf 1932 (Last Election), about the 1932 election campaign in Frankfurt, for political reasons. During filming, she was arrested and some of the footage was destroyed. Only fragments of the film remain.Read More »

A documentary on American journalist Theo Padnos who was Kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in Syria.Read More »

A teenagers prison in the middle of the countryside, in the South of Chile. Every night the teenagers are attacked by recurrent nightmares. The film is an exploration about the link between their lives, their crimes and their nightmares, about the influence of a territory on their dreams.Read More »