Far from Home is a film about women facing the war fought by the men they love. Told through the eyes of Kelly, Dina, Jennifer, and Michelle, this documentary explores the war in Iraq as experienced by four young women in America. By revealing the tragic gaps between war time propaganda and the lon...

This film is a poetic exploration of the film-maker’s journey to discover the true identity of her grand-uncle Henry Hall. Acting like a historical researcher she begins with the family myth about this mysterious character. All her relatives have a different story about who he really was: a murdere...

During the period of one year, Iranian exiles followed the « green revolution » via Internet from the street demonstrations to the so called trials.. Between the anonymous amateur images and the official government images, the feelings expressed in emails they received and the official speeches, the...

In 1940, Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya, known as Frosia, was a young landowner living in Bessarabia. She was 33 years old when the USSR invaded the country and sentenced her to relegation to Siberia. There began 18 years of wandering in the heart of the Gulag, which she recounted in 680 drawings with cap...

A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of Guano, the birds' excrement that can be used as a fertiliz...

Vitaly is a nuclear physicist and record-holder in extreme cold-exposure training who now makes a living as a bricklayer, surviving below the poverty line in Novosibirsk. Like the rest of his family, former scientists and members of the old Soviet Elite, he dreams of a return to the great Soviet Uni...

For 37 years, first on foot, by bike and then motorcycle, He Fu Quang has been travelling the back roads of Sichuan bringing wherever he goes “culture and cinema,” as he says. Offered by the Chinese government, the films are now sent via satellite from Beijing to Chengdu where He Fu Quang, known as ...

A few kilometers south of Tangier, near the port town of Asilah, lies the wide golden beach of Sidi Mghait. It is a peaceful place, overlooked by the simple farmhouse of a peasant family, a luxurious modern villa built by a wealthy European businessman, and a small mosque. Appearances here are decep...

Anna Roussillon’s I Am The People is the charming, funny and fascinating portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television news and local papers. From the toppling of President Mubarak to the election of Mohamed Morsi, the film cha...

A camp site, the beach, the ripening wheat, the Tour de France : JULY… Nothing extraordinary, nevertheless in the course of a shrimping expedition, words and faces express what is essentiel : the rich, the poor, the good God, friendship, years of labour, war, good luck, kids’ futures… To the rythm o...