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Sons of Wood

September 2014 •Spanish

Don Luis Valdez is a luthier of traditional music instruments, who embarks on the task of teaching a group of inmates from the "Santiago 1" prison (Chile), to build a guitar.

De occulta philosophia

March 2014 •Spanish

A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a harpsichord by master luthier Titus Crijnen to the interpretation of several scores by Bach and other Baroque composers by the Spanish ensemble La Reverencia.

The Quest for Tonewood

December 2021 •English

Gaspar, a luthier, wants to make a violin from the wood of a tree so rare that it may or may not exist anymore.

Carracedo

November 2024 •Galician

Nobody Somewhere

October 2023 •Spanish

In a future where systems of control spread out to the furthest reaches of the planet, a woman tries to survive in a realm of naturalized oppression. Her art is her weapon and an expression of resistance.

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

January 1958 •English

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

Headdress

May 2017 •English

For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of hard-earned leadership and responsibility. As filmmaker JJ Neepin prepares to wear her grandfather's headdress for a photo shoot she reflects on lessons learned and the thoughtless ways in which the tradition has been misappropriated.

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

March 2025 •English

On March 13, 2022, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian soldiers, the first American journalist to die while reporting on the war in Ukraine. His younger brother and collaborator, Craig Renaud, recovered Brent’s body and his final recordings from Ukraine and brought them back to their childhood home in Arkansas. As Brent’s journey to his final resting place unfolds, the film chronicles the years he and his brother spent covering some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts.

Atentamente

December 2016 •Spanish

ATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.

Warwick Davis and the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz

March 2013 •English

The actor, Warwick Davis, presents the story of the Owicz family and their ordeal during WWII. From a successful musical act to being tortuously experimented on by Dr. Josef Mengele in a concentration camp. This story might have been lost to history if it weren't for the family's diminutive size, which made them both a novelty as well as an inspiration.

Under the water

Invalid date •English

A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums.

An Unknown Compelling Force

June 2021 •English

The truth of Russia's greatest unsolved mystery, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, is uncovered in this compelling documentary.

Die Akte Zarah Leander

October 2013 •German

Zarah Leander was one of the greatest film stars of the Third Reich. Adored by the Nazis, she rose to become the highest-paid female film star of National Socialism. To this day, she remains inextricably linked to our collective memory, reviled as a "Nazi siren" but also loved unconditionally. At the same time, there are files in Sweden that claim she was a Russian spy. Extremely contradictory rumors that continue to shape the myth of Zarah Leander to this day. She herself described herself as completely apolitical. "The Zarah Leander File" delves into the life of the Swedish film diva and asks: Who was the woman behind the mysterious gaze, the frivolous songs, and the pompous gestures? Who was "Leander" really?

James Dean: Little Prince, Little Bastard

September 2005 •English

The collar of his coat turned up in New York: Images which have collaborated on building a myth – the image of eternal and misunderstood youth. Unlike Marlon Brando, the proletarian rebel with identifiable goals, James Dean was the timeless and androgynous youthful rebel. His death on the Interstate 46 leads us back to 1950s America, a time when youth was re-interpreted all anew.

Night and Fog

April 1959 •French

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The day he decided to leave

August 2015 •Portuguese

My grandfather Tuiu decides for the second time to leave his house and start a life elsewhere, he lives with the street hardships, and the fact of leaving is linked to the depredation of that place.

Making-of man-hole

January 2001 •Japanese

Behind-the-scenes footage of Takayuki Suzui’s film man-hole.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid: Deconstructing Pat & Billy

May 2006 •English

Katherine Haber and Paul Seydor discuss the making of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973).

Rediscovering a Rebel

January 1996 •English

A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.

Napoli magica

December 2022 •Italian