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...

In an increasingly global economy, where the profit margins of huge multinational coffee companies continue to rise, prices paid for coffee harvests have reached an all-time low, forcing farmers in some of the world''s poorest countries to abandon their once bountiful fields. Among the hardest...

The Screaming Men\’s Choir from Oulu, North Finland is a unique phenomenon. The choir, a fruition of a crazy idea brought up during casual conversation in a pub 15 years ago, has become a popular show throughout Europe. The men in the choir do not sing, they scream. The contrast of the...

A film that follows the complexity of creating the television show ”Sesame Street” world wide. The show, created in 1968, is presently broadcasted in 120 countries. It has special, cultural adaptations to suit children of various countries. The film focuses on three countries: South Africa, where...

The actor Severdan Bajram, takes the role of moderator in our encounter with the residents of the Macedonian town of Shuto Orizary, or Shutka for short. The inhabitants of Shutka, the capital of the Gypsies, hold world records in the most bizarre and surreal areas possible. From a collection of...

Shahar is an unemployed filmmaker. His father, Sleiman, a strict 82 year old Yemenite, is unhappy with Shahar\'s life style. The golden age of Sleimans life was his service in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army during WWII, of which he constantly bragged to his sons. As an incentive for his...

A fifty-two minute video clip-like montage with a heady pace that speaks out against capitalistic consumerism and its methods of advertising, while using the same brain washing techniques as a television advert. Erik Gandini has created a militant film. Its inspiration is the message touted by...

The film re-discovers one of the most incredible dance phenomena that world has ever seen.
Originally known as B-boying, breakdancing was an urban dance form that originated from the street of New York City during the seventies.
Along the Emceeing, Graffiti and DJing, B-boying served as...