Dozens of checkpoints lie scattered throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, manned by the Israel Defense Forces. Thousands of Palestinians pass through them every day, making them one of the major meeting points between both sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Many different encounters...

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...

Bady Minck’s avant-garde film breaks through the conservative norms of documentary filmmaking. The film reexamines a world of banal images through the scenes depicted on thousands of landscape postcards that depict the Austrian Alps and the Salzburg province, from the time of the Nazi regime...

The film follows in detail the daily routine of 20 of the “Untouchables” cast working at the local crematorium in Mdourai India. Cremation is executed in mud holes covered with cow dung without so much as sanitary conditions. The workers do not receive wages, only tips from the deceased relatives...

When Albert Einstein died in 1955 he left behind a remarkable scientific legacy, and an extraordinary secret. In 1986 love letters were discovered which revealed a marriage hidden in the shadows for more than 30 years. Before moving to America in 1933 with his second wife and first cousin Elsa,...

Anderson Sa was a drug dealer in one of Rios\' most notorious favelas (slums) until he decided in the early 90\'s to channel his leadership and charisma to a constructive cause and was one of the fathers of the socio-musical Afro-Reggae movement. Ever since Sa and his friends started recruiting...

A unique, historical and humane documentary about the Guoshan Yao tribesmen, nomads living in South China, who own no land and live in makeshift homes. In the spring of 2000, the Chinese government decided that the tribe should be settled into a permanent village that would be built for them...

A Documentary about the execution of The Disengagement Plan and the evacuation of 8,000 settlers from their homes at the settlements in the Gaza strip which began on August 15 th, 2005, lasting only 5 days. Eight camera crews followed closely for five full days the key figures, providing us with...

More than 60 babies were killed during the last Intifada in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority territories. “My daughter was born on the day the Intifada set off. When she turned 6 month an Israeli baby was shot in the head, a month later a Palestinian baby was shot. This for me was...