Current Films

The Prayas Children’s Home for Boys: a mono­lith­ic build­ing, out­ward­ly not unlike a prison, locat­ed in one of New Delhi’s poorer neigh­bor­hoods. The insti­tu­tion pro­vides shel­ter to 350 boys. Some … read more

Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Bud­dhist monk and lives in the Phuk­thal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan moun­tains of Zan­skar. Kenrap chose his life away … read more

The young Tunisian, Bahta (Lotfi Abdel­li), has dreams of becom­ing a famous break-dancer. But break­danc­ing is frowned upon in Tunisia, and the police fre­quent­ly harass the dancers. He has no … read more

“Qian­men” is a pop­u­lar neigh­bour­hood in the very heart of Bei­jing, just south of the Tianan­men Square. In the per­spec­tive of the 2008 Olympic Games, the city decid­ed that the … read more

“So why don’t you find your­self a hus­band then?“ asks Sonbol’s mother. The daugh­ter responds with silence. Sonbol Fatemi is 35 years old. She is single. She has her own … read more

This bril­liant observed doc­u­men­tary, by renowned ethno­graph­ic film­mak­er Judith Mac­Dougall, explores the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion in China, where pho­tog­ra­phy is known as the ” art of regret”.
In the rapid­ly chang­ing city of Kun­ming, people are ambiva­lent about whether they want pho­tog­ra­phy to be a medium of preser­va­tion and evi­dence, or of trans­for­ma­tion and fan­ta­sy. In this dig­i­tal age, the old can be made young again, and anyone can be more beau­ti­ful. In depart­ment stores people can enjoy being trans­formed at com­put­er­ized por­trait stalls. But they also value old photos of the city before it was changed. Many pho­tographs were destroyed during the Cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion and mem­o­ries lost for­ev­er. Choic­es about how to regard his­to­ry, real­i­ty, and mate­r­i­al cul­ture con­front every­one in con­tem­po­rary China. 

THE ART OF REGRET is a pro­found and sem­i­nal med­i­ta­tion on the uses of pho­tog­ra­phy and image-making in a cul­ture very much in flux, the film demon­strates that dif­fi­cult choic­es about how to regard his­to­ry, real­i­ty, and mate­r­i­al cul­ture face every­one in con­tem­po­rary China. 

For­mer­ly known as Mogador, Essaouira was the first sar­dine fish­ing port in the world. Today the fish have left its waters. Thou­sands of small Moroc­can fish­er­men from Essaouira, Safi, and … read more

An elder­ly woman / a fan; a young man / a book; a lady / a neck­lace… Twelve people and sev­er­al objects filmed along Vali Asr, Teheran’s longest and oldest … read more

The film por­trays a group of extra­or­di­nary women who choose boxing as a way of get­ting ahead in an African cap­i­tal caught in the tur­moil of its first demo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tions. … read more