The award-winning documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China. More...

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. More...

In 1998 Edith Stein (1891-1942) was canonised by Pope John Paul II. A German philosopher of Jewish descent, Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt in the south of the Netherlands. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz.

Director Frederieke Jochems worked for nine years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonisation. More...

Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More...

In this mesmerizing collage of early Italian film clips, director Peter Delpeut captures the spirit of the Italian silent film heroines who teetered dangerously between a capricious indulgence in sexual passion and an hysteric remorse at their own cruelty. More...

An award-winning feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. More...

As seen on PBS, this award-winning six-hour documentary series on the history of 20th-century China uses never-before-seen footage and remarkable first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people to build a unified, modern nation. More...

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband, trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More...

Filmmaker Astra Taylor (ZIZEK!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More...