Current Films

Taking as an exam­ple the life in a Kirghiz­ian vil­lage high in the moun­tains the film’ s authors are trying to find and con­firm poet­i­cal­ly the eter­nal, unal­ter­able foun­da­tions of … read more

Every­day life of Sam­bu­ru war­riors in their vil­lage in north­ern Kenya: look­ing after the herds, singing women, cel­e­brat­ing a ritual as pro­mo­tion to the status of war­riors. But today’s war­riors … read more

Daily life in the largest public hos­pi­tal in the Repub­lic of Guinea, Donka Hos­pi­tal in Conakry. For six weeks the film­mak­er fol­lows the progress of patients, their fam­i­lies, doc­tors and … read more

It is the story of nomads, shaman­ism and Bud­dhism, stones and spir­its as told through the Kagai-ool family. The par­ents live alone in a yurt, moving between the steppe and … read more

Inca de Oro, a small town in north­ern Chile on the edge of the desert, exact­ly in line with the tropic of Capri­corn. Today, 600 towns people still earn their … read more

The shoot­ing took place in the Saging Hills in Upper Myan­mar, which is twelve miles west across the Irrawad­dy River from the ancient cap­i­tal Man­dalay. Over 10000 monks and nuns … read more

Awara soup is a sort of stew with some oil from the Awara, the fruit of an ordi­nary palm in Guyana. The soup is cooked by the Cre­oles on Easter Monday. Those who eat Awara soup on this day will never leave Guyana. The prepa­ra­tion of this dish rich in ingre­di­ents served the film­mak­ers as a pre-text for meet­ing var­i­ous people (in front of a camera which was always on view), such as Amer­i­can Indi­ans, Euro­peans, Cre­oles, Brown-Blacks, Suri­namese, Hmongs, Brazil­ians. All of them live in Mana, a small town where 13 lan­guages are spoken. It’s an amaz­ing adven­ture of inte­gra­tion: French Guyana on the north­ern coast of Latin Amer­i­ca is a lab­o­ra­to­ry for cul­tur­al encounter, under­stand­ing, and coex­is­tence which cer­tain­ly has many lessons for other places in this world. 

RASKOLS is a crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed doc­u­men­tary about the crim­i­nal phe­nom­e­non known as raskolism and its under­ly­ing human rights issues in Papua New Guinea. The film looks at the vio­lent behav­iour … read more

The eating and sleep­ing room of a family, a cow with her head stuck in a milk churn, the wash­ing of a person’s hair, a hungry and tired child in … read more

In early 1989 the Big Men of Birap Vil­lage decid­ed to hold a »Sins­ing Tum­buan« or Mask Dance cer­e­mo­ny at the begin­ning of the dry season of the fol­low­ing year, … read more