From the Earth to the Moon

Abandoned houses, surviving objects that carry memory. Exiled from Iran after her film on the 2009 Green Movement was banned, a filmmaker breaks her family’s…

A documentary filmmaker and his 12-year-old son stay in an abandoned hotel in Lisbon, which is empty like the one in The Shining. The boy…

This new instalment of Angela’s Diaries concludes the trilogy dedicated to the late Angela Ricci Lucchi, with whom Yervant Gianikian made all his films, which…

The road, the house, the key, the animals, Bamssi. Images with the urgency of an Instagram story create a dialogue within the family across the…

The filmmaker and photographer engages with her father’s photo archive. He was also a photographer during his years of militant activism against the dictatorship in…

Gerd Korske once again surveys the past and the state of affairs of East Germany. His protagonists, female employees of large factories in a country…

On the border between Finland and Russia, the lazy summer vibes become stifling. Under the burning sun, on an island, two people party. Tender wander…

Exquisitely shot on 16mm film, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths takes us to Val Gardena, a region where the Rhaeto-Romance language…

A pedestrian (the filmmaker) equipped with a tiny pocket camera wanders through Brussels and encounters Polish, Iranian, Brazilian, Belgian and Moroccan workers. They slip small…

The First International Women’s Film Seminar, organised by filmmakers Claudia von Alemann and Helke Sander in 1973, can be regarded as one of the very…

Many people died in the village of Ziglo, in western Ivory Coast, during the 2011 civil war that pitted indigenous communities against immigrants from Burkina…

Meaning ‘rising in the east’, Shuruuk is a dreamlike, diaristic journey from Japan to Tunisia and from Palestine to France. Amie Barouh’s intimate, roving camera…

Writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain in 1970 after spending three decades in exile in Mexico. She wanted to reconnect with a past that…

Street cats, islands of light, flings, losses, and conscriptions. Eva Neymann portrays the people of Odesa and their cats with gentle care, seeking to reveal…

Emerging from the shadows of the rubber boom, the forgotten stories of two indigenous men, Omarino and Aredomi, are brought to light in a sensory…

In the village of Natzwiller, in Alsace, a handful of residents lived in peace until the Nazis came and built a concentration camp in an…

An intimate chronicle of the war that devastated southern Lebanon, leaving behind scorched land and a wounded community struggling to rebuild and find a semblance…

In his first film in fourteen years, McElwee focuses on the passage of time and the gap between documenting and understanding life. The film traces…

Bulakna invokes the name of an ancient Filipino warrior who resisted colonial invasion. Portraying the strength and inequality, the film follows Filipino women who nowadays…

In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers undertook several film expeditions to remote areas of Siberia. Their forgotten film reels, produced by Kyivnaukfilm,…

“After 11 years of displacement, I’m trying to answer the question: what is home? I lost mine in 2014, and now many people around the…

“When I was younger, I hated my body as much as I was obsessed with images of nature. On the one hand, I told myself…

The winning short film of the Doc Alliance Award, We Had Fun Yesterday, explores the director’s fascination with images of nature. Wildlife films, natural parks…

For a decade, Steve Boyes has been searching for a mysterious, elusive herd of ghost elephants in the wooded, virtually uninhabited highlands of Angola, an…

This film essay is a montage of contemporary footage, archive material and cinematic history. It tells the story of how one young man’s childhood epilepsy…

A political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, it is both a portrait of…

After six decades living in Germany, jazz pianist Stevan returns home to Serbia. Following a lengthy legal process, he is allowed to inherit the neglected…

In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the indigenous Chuschagasta community in Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land, they kill…

In 1970s Japan, Satoshi Kirishima was a member of the “Scorpion Cell” of the East Asian Anti-Japan Armed Front, a recently formed left-wing extremist group.…

Leni and Mandemba are two fishermen from the island of Bubaque, in Guinea-Bissau. The filmmaker follows them for a whole day as they prepare their…

A filmmaker follows the odyssey of an invisible missionary as he wanders between villages in Guinea-Bissau, trying to respond to the call by Amílcar Cabral,…

Rafa leaves home to run an errand for his father: to buy wine for lunch. Annoyed, he wanders from store to store, which leads him…

Sérgio travels to a West Africa metropolis to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the…

From 1970 onwards, and for two and a half years, the Revolutionary Brigades devoted themselves to armed struggle against the Portuguese dictatorial regime, as part…