THE LADY IN NUMBER 6 won the 2014 Oscar for best short documentary. It's the story of Alice Herz Sommer, who at 109 years old, still practiced the piano for two and a half hours each day. She remained fiercely independent and attributed her long life, less to "good genes" than to "good…
« La dame dans le livre » est Sylvia Plath, auteure majeure de la poésie américaine du 20ème siècle et icône féministe depuis sa mort brutale à l’âge de trente ans. Le film propose une plongée dans son univers et dans son…
Scientists venture into the virtually unknown interior of Antarctica to explore a lake buried 3,600 feet beneath.
The Avro Lancaster has been described as the outstanding bomber of World War II. At a time when Hitler’s armies had spread the Nazi creed and empire across Occupied Europe, the heavy bombers were the only means of carrying the offensive back to the Nazi heartland. We detail the Lancaster’s…
The Land of Giants is a new ski film that explores the most iconic mountains on Earth. The film features the best skiers in the world riding to the very edge and beyond, from the fjords of Norway to the spines of Alaska. It's a celebration of the natural world, and a reminder of the power of the…
In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. “The Land of Many Palaces” follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and a farmer in one of…
The dairy farmer Mats-Åke has decided to stay at his farm in the north of Sweden. He has good help from his thai wife and her relatives who travel from Thailand to undertake seasonal work in the area. A history from a region that can not afford prejudices.
A film by José Vieira Leaving, becoming, and returning – that’s every immigrant’s dream. But over time, that dream is diluted by immigration. And when the time to return comes, if it does come, it’s once again a weaning process and readjustment to one’s motherland,…
Are dialects and accents something that classify us as talking weird? Or something to be celebrated in a new globalized world? "The Language I Speak" explores the different varieties of spoken English in America and the power of language in the way we see one another. Directed by Ana Cuadra Written…
Classic film questioning the basic values of our society. 'We are setting a thousand fuses to the earth..' What sort of values has a society which spends more on weapons of death than on starving children? How can children learn the difference between play and war when guns are displayed…
Science is just beginning to understand the wealth of information around us everyday in the form of fragrances. Just how much do we know about our least appreciated sense?
A friend of mine once told me that almost everyone she knew had "bubbled themselves" into a group of people from the same background, and didn't see much beyond that bubble. They didn't see what others were facing, were thinking, were feeling. Over the years, I've become convinced…
