Like a Beast... Almost

Refugee Poetry

April 2016 •Kurdish

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

The Women of Godzilla

April 2008 •English

One aspect of Japanese fantasy films that often goes overlooked is the significant part that women play in the drama.

The Creator of Godzilla: Tomoyuki Tanaka

June 2007 •English

Many people contributed to the creation of Godzilla, but only one man was truly the father of the monster.

Ils ont libéré Paris !

June 2014 •French

I Want to Return Return Return

September 2020 •English

A depiction of the Wrangelkiez neighbourhood in Berlin. The people portrayed tell their life stories. One woman came to the neighbourhood a decade ago to work in Berlin’s still unfinished Brandenburger Airport, one man reminisces his childhood on a Tobacco farm in Kentucky, another speaks of an exceptional day in an otherwise monotonous workplace. These portraits are interwoven with the story of Elpi, a Greek woman who is waiting for the long overdue visit of an old important friend. The outcome of this mixture is a film which captures the lives and perspectives of some of Wrangelkiez’s most commanding citizens, while at the same time evoking the loss that change and time passing means for places and for people.

Users Are Losers

January 1971 •English

Educational film about the dangers of drug use and abuse in high school. Framed around the death of a classmate from overdose.

Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

March 2019 •French

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.

The Real Nancy Botwin From 'Weeds'

July 2015 •English

Just a Guy

April 2020 •German

Three women contemplate their relationship with convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez.

"The Ornithopter Story: Fly, Hiyodori Tengu!"

October 2002 •Japanese

Momentum

June 2015 •English

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 boys parents are wandering in the corridors of the hospital. The heart is stopped during the surgery operation. Le Locle, a village in Switzerland acts as the heart of watch industry. Narrow streets of the village carry vital parts to watches and nowdays also into human bodies, for example pacemakers. Village is formed as a big factory line and appears as a time-twisting machine. There pieces are refined and workers hands turns the time on and off.

The Question

September 2012 •English

Born at just 23 weeks and weighing 1 pound, Tyrese's head was the size of an egg. If he survived the night, the doctors said he would live in a vegetative state without the ability to see, speak or think - but he proved them wrong.

Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts

November 2015 •English

A documentary about young people with autism, and how arts and creative therapies help them to lead fuller lives.

Psicotaxi

July 2002 •English

Fresnadillo wheel an impromptu consultation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, while driving in a taxi in the streets of Paris.

Patience Labour

July 1985 •Russian

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, eschewing interview and conversation, and mostly submerging political and social commentary.

And So They Live

August 1940 •English

A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl period.

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

January 1979 •English

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured.

The Story of Alfred Nobel

February 1939 •English

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

Låten från båten

November 1961 •Swedish

Edwin

July 2020 •English

Edwin Debrow Jr. murdered a cab driver when he was 12. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.