All Films

Hun, working part-time at the bar, crushed on the boss, Mr.Jang. But Mr.Jang always shows deep interest to a regular customer, Misuk. One day the moment to close the bar, Misuk comes in alone.

An anxious and penniless woman discovers a bizarre way to get herself out of financial trouble. However, the solution that leads her to success soon becomes her dark burden.

Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails. Ben Wang’s BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy—the prisoner, the immigrant, the son, the activist—on his journey to freedom, rehabilitation and redemption. BREATHIN’ moves with a deep, critical love, unafraid in confronting the hard truths of Eddy’s crime, the harsh realities of mass incarceration and the intertwined emotional hardships experienced by all involved. The film finds Eddy at many crossroads — in and out of parole hearings, organizing in the community, othered and at risk of deportation — his resilience and astounding compassion resounding throughout. In chronicling Eddy’s decades-long struggle for freedom, the film interrogates the complexities and hypocrisies of crime and punishment in the United States, raising the greater question: For whom are prisons for?

Two best friends work in a coffee shop, the Caffè Cozy. Mawena is the manager, and she's under a lot of pressure from her superiors to achieve results. Alex is a student and has a happy-go-lucky attitude, oblivious to the workings of the company. But today, Alex arrives late and Mawena is a little stressed out.

Elide’s agonizing longing of her twin sister Elise gets challenged in different (re)constructed dimensions to feel her sister’s presence. A repeating false catharsis that makes Elide mirror her sister’s life and personality and imitate her faith.

A story about a lonely, unfulfilled woman who is afraid of becoming useless. But the one who really needs it is considered a burden.

Rhodiacéta 2014, a forgotten industrial site at the entrance to a city. Abandoned for almost 30 years, it has become the clandestine theater for generations of taggers, photographers, and other Argonauts who haunt the place. Drawing on his social and activist journey, the film shows and gives voice to what resists in this monumental structure slated for demolition. From yesterday to today, it explores occupation: that of the great strike of 1967 which led to the formation of the Medvedkine group, then, after the closure of the spinning mill in 1981, that of a diverse and clandestine population benefiting from a "free space" there, and finally, that of the walls on which constantly renewed paintings are displayed. We will paint a portrait of this emblematic wasteland, through these “people from the inside”, these people of today but also with those who were close to it, who lived there, who worked there and who, through memory, still live there.

Hajira Imeri Mihaljic is the only Roma person ever to be awarded the honorary title of Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. A former employee of the Levi family in Croatia, Mihaljic was visiting them at a holding camp in Mitrovica, Kosovo, when the grandmother of two-year-old Esther asked if she would take the child and raise her as her own. Mihaljic agreed and bravely risked her own life by disguising Esther as Roma, thereby saving her. This previously unknown story is brought to life in this moving documentary recounted by Esther Levi herself.

Safia, a 25 year old policewoman, fulfills her dream and joins the prestigious 36 quai des Orfèvres (the headquarters of the criminal investigations department of the Parisian police) after 5 years of service in Clichy-sous-bois. On her very first day, totally out of the blue, she comes across a dangerous gangster who defies her ruthlessly.

Lunatique is a sci-fi short film about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.

Two alien beings land on Earth for a pretended spatial investigation, but in fact, those who are observed and studied are them. In the end, they will have a big surprise.

Yulin, a Chinese farm woman, leads a tough life - she's poor, childless, and constantly abused by her husband. Her only escape in life is making mud dolls and fantasizing about a better life.

Pauline, a full time carer for her disabled son Nathan, orchestrates a ruse to form a meaningful connection with the man next door.

With millions of tiny strokes of her humble pencil, Laurie Lipton’s haunted images seek answers to some of the most uncomfortable themes in our culture. But what compels her to live a life of isolation drawing is neither black nor white.

World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society that welcomes and encourages new immigrants to flourish

Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that's been called the 'British Pompeii' due to the remarkable levels of preservation.

Documentary about one of the greatest French thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).

Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A joyous celebration of female sexuality, its journey to worldwide fame was far from straightforward and it lay in obscurity for centuries. Artist and entrepreneur Sam explains why Botticelli's nude was so revolutionary, and explores its impact on contemporary culture with artists such as Terry Gilliam, who memorably reinvented Venus for his Monty Python's Flying Circus animations.

Since the death of his parents, 10-year-old Leo has been on his own. His brother Bastien is unable to face his responsibilities. Their lives intersect without ever ending up, until the meeting with Julie will change everything.

Ah, Sweden. Prosperity. Tolerance and equality. ABBA, social democracy and clean fresh air and... snus - the superstrong smokeless tobacco that is forbidden all over Europe. A harmless alternative to smoking according to some. Others might disagree... Things seem to be looking up for small time thief Karsten Lammstrom. His prison time is coming to an end. On the outside waits Annika, his wife to be, and a livelihood: a sightseeing-boat in the Swedish archipelago. What Karsten doesn't need is a Balkan warlord arriving to the prison; notorious Serbian torturer, Zlatko Pavic. When Zlatko takes an interest in Karstens habit to use snus, things take an unexpected turn of events. Karsten ends up facing a grueling moral dilemma.

Faced with crippling addiction to a strange, mind-altering drug, young Jeffrey Hawthorne finds himself in danger when he inadvertently becomes involved with a drug cartel that is ran by a sinister, rabbit worshiping cult.

Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.

A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the spaces that they have come through, just as the images themselves reflect the history of their own alterations. It is also a humorous exploration of the ideas of vignetting as it frames, highlights, distances and alters space.