Diary of a Political Tourist

Children of the Market

January 2007 •English

Documentary on Seattle's Pike Place Market, and those who have saved it from destruction over its first 100 years of existence. Covers the history of the Market, the people who live and work there, and the ghosts who still haunt it.

La petite prison dans la prairie

December 2023 •French

Since November 2022, the Brussels prisons of Saint-Gilles, Forest and Berkendael have been moving to the brand-new "prison village" of Haren, on the outskirts of Brussels. An ultra-modern, ultra-secure, semi-private prison. But why build new prisons in the first place?

The Story of the Weeping Camel

August 2004 •Mongolian

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

Walking Under Water

April 2014 •Polish

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 nomads, living in harmony with the sea as fishermen and free divers. Nowadays, however, only a few Badjao remain, like Alexan, who still remembers the old ways. He hopes to pass his knowledge along to his ten-year-old nephew Sari, but time and opportunities are running out. Sari loves the sea, but it can only offer a hard life of subsistence fishing, while the nearby tourist resort sings a siren song of easy money.

Brigitte macron, un roman français

January 2018 •French

Barcelona. Ritmo de un día

May 1940 •Spanish

Silence

May 1998 •Polish

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Gente de mesón

May 1969 •Spanish

Represión: un arma de doble filo

October 2015 •Spanish

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español

May 2010 •Spanish

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.

Good Farm

September 2012 •

Collar de moscas

May 2002 •Spanish

Buñuel's Prisoners

May 2000 •Dutch

The filmmaker interviews still surviving residents of Las Hurdes, where Buñuel shot a controversial documentary almost 70 years ago, and compares the area as shown in that work to the way it seems now.

Los chicos de la foto

May 2014 •Spanish

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir

May 2007 •Spanish

Lucian Freud: Painted Life

May 2012 •English

Documentary about the painter Lucian Freud.

El jardín de las delicias

May 2009 •Spanish

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition

May 1912 •Norwegian

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Journey is a Norwegian documentary film that features Roald Amundsen's original footage from his South Pole expedition from 1910 to 1912.

Dying for Everest

May 2007 •English

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable achievement and Inglis was feted by press and public alike. But only a few days later he was plunged into a storm of controversy when it was learned that he had passed an incapacitated climber, Englishman David Sharp, leaving him to a lonely end high in the Death Zone.

Roberto Bolle: The Art of the Dance

May 2017 •English

Documentary following ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and his troupe performing in Italian monuments.