Black Fire

Four older gay couples discuss their relationships, civil partnerships and their views on multiple topics such as spirituality, religion, love, gay rights, etc.

Short doc about the "Miss Berlin" beauty contest in 1987.

This essay film explores horror's relationship to eating, in over seventy horror films made by women, from the 1920s - 2020s.

After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reconnecting with the sensations of their body.

Highlights aspects of food handling which are the personal responsibility of the food handler. Discusses the sources of potentially hazardous bacteria and the various means by which these bacteria may be transferred to food.

Originally made as an ad for reindeer meat but includes notable documentary material from Lapland. A young couple from Helsinki goes to a restaurant and gets to know reindeer meat.

What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban Adam prize open the coffin on a world of darkness and light, exploring its multiplicities and intersections with subcultures and the ever-present experience of queerness.

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking.

This short tells the story of archery through the ages, mostly using Warner Brothers archive footage. Noted archer Howard Hill demonstrates his skills with various trick shots.

Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows.

Actor Errol Flynn takes a group of scientists from the California Institute of Oceanography on an expedition to the South Seas aboard his schooner, The Zaca.

The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture. In 1981, the film has won the German film critic's award for “Best short film in Germany”.

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

The film sheds light on the problems at school, the difficulties foreign youngsters have in finding their way between two cultures and languages, the impossibility of exercising the right to a good education.

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

Biography of the ideas and teachings of Marcel Mauss, considered the founder of Anthropology who lived and wrote in the first half of the 20th century, in France. His work is discussed through the testimony of three students, carried out in Paris between 1997 and 1999. Denise Paulme died 4 months after the interview, Germaine Diertelen died 9 months later and Germaine Tillion, aged 95 in 2002, still works. The three were part of the first generation of French anthropologists, formed in the 1930s.

A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.

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Short documentary about people who sell cars from Europe to Africa.