History came to bathe in a public swimming pool in Kosice, Slovakia. The director creates an ingenious audiovisual collage of life in twentieth century Central Europe through several stories, which unfold from the time the pool was built in 1936 until 2002. Kerekes’ grandmother’s life story and...

In March 2001, the ruling Taliban deliberately destroyed one of the worlds foremost cultural and historical sites, the immense Buddhas of Bamiyan. It caused an international furor. However, the hundreds of refugee families who now live among the ruins in Bamiyans caves received significantly less...

Saturday, 10am, a group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a circle and discuss matters sublime and elevated. For over two decades, the "Mt. Herzl Academy” has held its...

Jerusalem is Proud to Present depicts how in 2006 a specific, emotionally charged point of contention was added to the familiar list of political and religious antagonisms in this city: the organization of the Pride Parade. The parade, chaste because without nudity, would make a statement across...

In 1935, three Walt Disney films were screened in Moscow. Fyodor Chytruk, then a young art student, saw these films and did not believe his eyes; he was convinced that he had seen a miracle unfolding before him. What he did not know was that one day he himself would become one of the greats of...