ZONA/ (2020)

The Society of the Spectacle (1974)

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

• Documentary

Hometown: A Portrait of the American Opioid Epidemic (2018)

An intimate look at the human faces of America's current opioid epidemic. Seen through the eyes of a mother and the lens of a small town.

• Documentary

Second Class (2012)

'Do you feel cheaper?' We are filming young Lithuanian men working in Sweden. They do not want to be caught on camera, they do not want to participate in creating yet another media image of guilt and pity. They film us. We empty a bottle of moonshine, we dance on their porch. They might let us film them tomorrow. Second Class is a time document about class, respect, the value of work and human being.

• Documentary

Peru's 10km Wall of Shame: Rich and Poor Divided

There is a 10km wall in Lima that separates the richest neighbourhood in the city from the poorest. For some it is known as the ‘wall of shame’, for others its essential to security. What are the root causes of this massive monument to inequality, how is it that a low income person on one side of the wall is paying twice what their rich neighbour is, on the other side of the wall, for a glass of water

• Documentary

Just Like You: Anxiety + Depression (2022)

10 brave kids, 2 Emmy award winning journalists, 1 clinical psychologist at Columbia University and 1 determined mother take on the fear and stigma plaguing the mental health community, leaving us enlightened, empowered and equipped to either live life or lift up life with these challenging and even life threatening conditions.

• Documentary

The buildings will take off and leave us behind (2022)

Filmed with a cybershot camera, the experimental short proposes a journey about architecture, loneliness, and hope.

• Documentary

Land Without Bread (1933)

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

• Documentary

Who Killed Fourth Ward? (1978)

Originally founded as Freedman’s Town after the Civil War, The Fourth Ward is one of the oldest and most culturally significant black communities in Houston, Texas. In the 1970s, the city along with big business interests planned to redevelop the Fourth Ward in order to revitalize the dilapidated real estate and freshen the image of downtown Houston. The price of progress in this case would be the removal of many poor black families. The film explores a complex series of encounters with elected city officials, businessmen and the people of Fourth Ward in order to better understand how a city like Houston works. Who makes the decisions about where resources are spent and so determines the growth and wealth of the community.

• Documentary

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (1975)

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

• Documentary
• History

Pour de vrai, pour de faux (2015)

• Documentary

Nine (2021)

Two friends faced with an internal conflict struggle to find a way of communication.

• Documentary
• Drama

Megalopolis facing sea level rise (2022)

• Documentary
• TV Movie

Rock, Pretty Baby (1956)

A high school rock group enters a band contest.

• Comedy
• Music

Die Magie von Gesicht und Stimme (2022)

• Documentary
• TV Movie

Seven Years in May (2019)

One night seven years ago, Rafael came home after work and discovered that people he did not know had come looking for him. He immediately fled, without looking back. From that moment on, his life changed, as if that night had never ended. One evening, around an improvised fire near a factory, he decides to confide his journey to a stranger. Rafael’s intimate account meets the collective testimony of an entire nation oppressed by poverty, police repression and institutional corruption.

• Documentary
• Drama

Transição (2020)

• Documentary

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde (2015)

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders. Looks like rape, abuse and death are no longer parts of the solution for modern-day Bonnie and Clyde...

• Crime
• Documentary

Themepark 1984 (2009)

Filmed on the 60th anniversary of the republic, this dark-humor documentary delves on the highs and lows of living in North Korea.

• Documentary

Donna: Women in Revolt (1980)

The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms.

• Documentary
• History

2020: A Very Particular Year (2020)

At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people from very different latitudes, living necessarily very different situations, experience this shared solitude? How did people adapt to the restriction by decree of their personal freedoms and the transformation of many bustling metropolises into ghost cities?

• Documentary