Walk on water

Fall 2

March 1970 •English

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

October 1888 •

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Harbour of Hope

December 2011 •Swedish

In 1945 Irene, Ewa and Joe were among the nearly 30,000 survivors rescued from German concentration camps to the peaceful harbour town Malmö, Sweden. Here they started life again.

TGV Paris-Bordeaux, la ligne de tous les records

November 2021 •French

Angel of Nanjing

March 2015 •English

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For the past 11 years Chen Si has been patrolling this bridge, looking to provide aid for those who've gone there to end their lives. Incredibly, he has saved over 300 people since he began - nearly one every two weeks.

Dans les coulisses du métro de Paris

October 2016 •French

Every Face Has a Name

February 2015 •Swedish

Recalls the day when Holocaust survivors took their first steps into freedom, unaware of their future. Every Face Has a Name puts a name on those nameless faces and lets them recount their feelings of that day, the 28th of April, 1945.

Storstrøm Bridge

March 1950 •Danish

A wordless ode to the Storstrom bridge.

The Three Failures

January 2006 •English

A fairy tale about communism, social-democracy, and capitalism. (The sequel to Wandering Marxwards)

Les allumés du pont Jacques-Cartier

May 2017 •French

The story behind the technical prowess deployed to light up the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.

The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough

September 1981 •English

A film that uses literary, structural, autobiographical, and performance metaphors to construct a series of tableaux that evoke the act of vision, the limits of perception, and the rapture of space.

Alpine Train at Christmas

December 2024 •English

Climb aboard the illustrious Bernina Express for a festive ride through spectacular Alpine landscapes, taking in snow-covered peaks, architectural wonders, and majestic glaciers.

Abegweit

January 1998 •English

A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland, Abegweit reveals some of the innovations that made this mammoth project one of the most impressive engineering feats in Canadian history.

Öresund Bridge - Wind, Water and Visions

December 1998 •Swedish

Partway through the building of the Öresund Bridge this documentary looks at the process for what has been built so far and looks into the future at what opportunities the bridge might bring.

A Bridge at the Edge of the World

October 2007 •Turkish

Year 1969 - in Turkey. 60s youth were living the most excited days. There was a great effort to make a bridge in Istanbul, on the Bosphorus. Meanwhile, on the eastern border of Turkey, in a Kurdish city between the borders of Iran and Iraq that is left to its destiny, in Hakkari, Zap River was taking lives since there were no passage on it.

A Scent of Chocolate

October 2002 •Swedish

Documentary about Margit Nielsen and her work at the Malmö chocolate factory.

El puente

January 1951 •Spanish

The efforts of a community to build a bridge which would allow their children to go school during the rainy season.

Aces & Knaves

November 2019 •English

Aces & Knaves is a documentary about mental gymnastics, competition, and cheating in bridge - the most complex game ever invented by the human mind.

Sunderland

January 1896 •English

Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

Blood Sisters

April 2015 •Swedish

Julia and Johanna, from the high-rise flats of Rosengård in Malmö, inseparable for as long as they remember. Curled up beside each other at night, carrying equal memories of abduction and abuse in their home country Azerbaijan. In Blood Sisters we follow their journey from twin sisters in symbiosis to young women trying to stand on their own feet.