MATRIARCH

The Zar

A short documentary on the practice of Zar in Sudan.

A King Like Me

Follows members of the Zulu Club, New Orleans’ first Black Mardi Gras, as they work to bring the Zulu parade back to the streets for Mardi Gras Day 2022, in the face of a global pandemic, hurricane Ida and the loss of members due to COVID and gun violence.

Pino Daniele - Il tempo resterà

The Holy Spirit: Pyramids, Healing Energy and Virgin Mary in Bosnia

Mysterious stone spheres, a pyramid with an EM Beam, and tunnels with healing energy fascinate. Search for the Holy Spirit, strange phenomena, spiritual awakening, healing, and meeting the Virgin Mary brings spiritual people from all over the globe to Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, pilgrims find new connections to God and strengthen their faith, some find healing.

The Annunciation

This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played by Aki Kaurismäki’s signature actress Kati Outinen), in the process discovering the parallel worlds of humans and animals, and the proximity of the ordinary to the miraculous.

Java, l'âme de l'Indonésie

Power in my Hands

This is a film about the power of the Rosary, a Catholic Prayer. The film depicts personal stories about how the rosary has affected their lives.

Povo da Floresta

Two Crowns

Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions.

Black Gomorra

A look at the Nigerian mafia in the costal town of Castel Volturno in Italy.

Comitiva Esperança

Qui veut brûler le Père Noël ?

Filhos da Cratera

Neapel

Short documentary about Naples, Italy.

A Case for Love

“A Case for Love” is a heartfelt yet personally challenging movie inspired by the teachings and writings of Bishop Michael Curry, most well-known for his passionate sermon about “The Power of Love” at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. This documentary examines whether or not love–specifically unselfish love–is the solution to the extreme societal and political divide facing the U.S.

Posso entrare? An ode to Naples

A tour through the alleys of Naples between works of art, music and theater.

Modern Life

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

The Last of the Sea Women

On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.

Profiles Farmers: The Approach

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

Profiles Farmers: Daily Life

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne (2008)), showing the simple lives of farmers in contemporary Southern France.