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...

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...

TO-GATHER is a video documentary which reflects upon historical phenomenon of a mass immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel at the beginning of the 90\’s. It is offering a range of perspectives on the issues of “Russians” in Israeli society. The film reflects these people\’s hopes and attitudes...

A documentary thriller. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father claimed that his brother had been murdered in a Ukrainian prison and substituted by an imposter from the KGB, forced on the family by...

Forty years ago, on 20th August 1968, Soviet tanks rolled into Prague to crush the rebellious Prague Spring. This evocative documentary captures the historic events of those heady days with an overpowering immediacy. The Soviet advance met with fierce, idealistic resistance. We join the hundreds...