Elsa the Rose

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority

In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was t

2008

Around the Village Green

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

1937

Repare Bem

The lives of three generations of women who suffered political persecution during the military dictatorship in Brazil.

2012

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and diss

1976

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t

1989

My Millennial Life

My Millennial Life is an intimate and entertaining observational documentary, featuring five dynamic 20-somethings. Set against the backdrop of undere

2016

Ancestral Voices

An educational documentary spanning two continents, opening up a much-needed debate about traditional African spiritual systems; their cosmologies, id

2011

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine

2017

Dread Beat an' Blood

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

1979

Voices & Visions: T.S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemporaries in the 1920s recognized in “The Waste Land

Dr. Feelgood

Dr. Feelgood shares several perspectives on prescription drug use, exploring the issues involved when doctors are faced with patients seeking help for

2016

Political Animals

The story of four pioneering lesbian politicians and the battles they fought to pass a wide range of anti-discrimination laws.

2016

The Breidjing Camp

Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. With great humility, she tells the stories of these

2015

Momentum

In Finland, a small child is waiting for his time to begin. His heart is broken. A major heart surgery is expected. There is a fight against time. The

2015

Le plafond de verre

This is the story of the few people who went ahead, beyond racial prejudice. And their struggle to open the workplace to other people.

2006

Forever

Père-Lachaise - one of the world's most famous and beautiful cemeteries - is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and co

2006

Down There

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about he

2006

Eyes on Russia: From the Caucasus to Moscow

An extremely rare subject by the famed still photographer. A 1934 short.

Passing Quietly Through

A blunt and human encounter between a nurse and an aging man.

Memória, identidades e ancestralidade como possibilidade do estudo de história em sala de aula

2022