Open Your Eyes

Two Marxists in Hollywood

Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and German playwright Bertolt Brecht recount the brief portions of their lives they spent in Hollywood

2015

Glass House

An exploration of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's notes and drawings for a science fiction movie that he pitched to Paramount in 1930 about the re

2015

A Model Family in a Model Home

The saga of a movie treatment written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht during his unhappy stint in Hollywood based on a Life Magazine article about

2015

KONELĪNE: our land beautiful

Set deep in the traditional territory of Tahltan First Nation, Northern British Columbia’s Red Chris gold and copper mine is the backdrop to a lyrical

2016

15 Faros de Puerto Rico

Each one of the 15 lighthouses around the island of Puerto Rico tells the story of the lighthouse keepers, wives or daughters that lived in them. Addi

2015

Road's End

Road's End is the story of Daina who lives in Latgale in Eastern Latvia, close by the Russian border. She lives two miles from the nearest road, with

2013

Walking Under Water

In the crystal clear waters off the coast of Borneo, a unique way of life threatens to disappear forever. For generations, the Badjao were oceanic nom

2014

For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq

A document of the momentous culmination of a series of world tribunals held in 30 cities around the world, providing testimonials of the war crimes co

2007

Singapore GaGa

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and h

2005

Voices from the Grave

The story of the Northern Ireland Troubles through the unflinching testimony of two men who played key roles on opposite sides of that bloody conflict

2010

Rituel

Music performed by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Schwartz manipulates by computer, in real-time the images of th

1979

Toto Bissainthe

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

1984

The Future Is Rotten

A secret culture of foragers hunt the Matsutake, a coveted Japanese mushroom worth up to $1,000 a pound—although its true value lies underground as a

2020

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming o

1991

Something Like Happiness

Lenka and Míra Hřib are a young married couple with two small children. They are both interested in ecology and sustainable life.

2000

Ten Years in the Life of a Young Man

An observational documentary about Jakub Špalek and all his activities, victories and losses in the years 1989 to 1999.

1999

The Call

A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing the type of a

1999

Hitler, Stalin and I

Heda Blochová was born in Prague into the Jewish family of the cofounder of the well-known Koh-i-noor factory. She married Rudolf Margolius, a lawyer.

2001

Tell Me Something About Yourself - Pavlína

Pavlina is a drug addict imprisoned, as well as her boyfriend, for illegal drug manufacturing. They meet again after the amnesty and the vicious circl

1992

Tell Me Something About Yourself - René

René has been in prison since he was 16. He is sick of life and doesn’t care about his parents (just as René’s parents never cared about him when he w

1992