Reason for Seeing: Correspondence I

The Family Forest

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy ​through a VERY personal experience.

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme

2003

Im Schatten des Apfelbaums

2019

De Aracaju a Harvard

Ines, Memories of a Lifetime

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic love,

2014

Bright Nights

In an experimentally compiled film review, Danielle Jaeggi, Paule Baillargeon and Claudia von Alemann reflect on their work as filmmakers and life as

1990

Corpo Presente

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the

2024

Caribou in the Archive

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern M

2018

Kindergarten

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning En

2020

Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

2008

Monsieur Mayonnaise

Artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan; The Howling II; Swastika) is producing a graphic novel about his late father, Georges, widely know

2016

Lost in the Bewilderness

Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapped at age five from his native Greece, and found o

2014

Cómo vivir toda una vida con apenas un te quiero

Phantoms of the Sierra Madre

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that fervently seeks to remain in obscurity.

2024

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegoric

1975

The Giacomettis

The rugged Swiss mountain valley of Bregaglia has produced an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacomettis. Alberto revolutionised the art world with hi

2023

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings,

2022

Cold Lands

'Cold Lands' makes a personal journey through the images and cinema, guided by filmmakers and artist like, Theo Angelopoulos, Bego Vicario, Wim Wender

2018

Papel de Parede

2023

To Esteban

Gregorio, Dolores and Zoila are three elders excited about the arrival of a new member to the family; Esteban, their great-grandson. Through the memor

2023