David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker

Lessons in Red

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

2020

Devilwood

In a lawless outpost in 17th Century England, the people have ceased to be God-fearing but learn to fear the Devil instead.

2006

Nothing Escapes My Eyes

"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud

2015

Barking Island

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert

2010

Ghosts

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

2022

Captain Blackbeard

A girl plays at being a pirate when she learns that her father's ranch will be invaded. Convinced that she can help, she goes into the forest, not kno

2020

Home

When the path to safety has been destroyed and you’re forced to abandon your life because the enemy is at the gates, all that’s left to do, is save yo

2016

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

2022

Nisei (Second-generation)

Follows Iwao Ichikawa, a second-generation Japanese Mexican, navigating racial segregation in Mexicali, Baja California during WWII, offering a poigna

2024

Woman with an Editing Bench

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of

2016

Satan's Bite

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018

2018

Hideout

Ukraine, 1946. Orest, commander of an insurgent squad, is in a hideout together with his pregnant wife Eva and several fighters. The NKVD surrounds th

2020

Naive Cinema

An essay film on the editing of erotic movies.

1979

Uri Geller's Secret Treasures

An extraordinary look at the life of Uri Geller, the man famous for bending spoons and reading minds, told through exclusive interviews with the man h

2023

Dormancy

Set in 1932, at the height of prohibition and the growing American eugenics movement, the state of Vermont passes a law allowing for sexual sterilizat

2018

Visas and Virtue

Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.

1997

Princess Clementina

King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.

1911

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to

2017

White Death

Impressionist portrait of a landscape forged by tragedy. A ghostly wanderer among the vestiges of a story where 44 young soldiers and a sergeant were

2014

Red Snow

A young lieutenant must persuade a captive resistance fighter to betray his comrades, or enforce a law which states that for every German soldier kill

2013