The Ashram Children: I Am No Body, I Have No Body
I grew up in an ashram, a spiritual hermitage in India, of which I had to keep silent. I was taught to dedicate my life to the Guru, so I could understand the 'truth' of life and become enlightened....
The Black Tree
In an old myth, at the centre of the Earth is a black tree. Those who can reach it will be able to talk to the trees and break curses. Martín is an indigenous Qom shepherd in Argentina. His community...
Erased,___ Ascent of the Invisible
In the mid-1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I knew. He has remained missing ever since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking down a...
How Big Is the Galaxy?
Seven-year-old Zakhar lives on the vast Siberian tundra in the Arctic, hundreds of miles away from other human settlements. One day, his nomad family is joined by a teacher, sent by the authorities...
Last Year When the Train Passed by
What were you doing, when I took this photo as the train was passing by your house last year?' Carrying pictures taken from the train a year ago, the director returns to the same sites, asking this...
Little Man, Time and the Troubadour
Born in Abkhazia, marionette artist Sipa LABAKHUA had to flee with his family to Moscow when the USSR collapsed. Years later, Sipa returned to his small and unrecognised birthplace, taking to the...
The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater
In 1971, Dušan MAKAVEJEV's daring and innovative political satire film, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, was condemned in a public debate in Yugoslavia under the auspices of the Communist Party,...
No Data Plan
'Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her “Obama phone”. For that we use the other number with no data plan', says the narrator as he crosses the United States by train....
Scheme Birds
Bleak yet ultimately beautiful, Scheme Birds is a coming-of-age documentary, bursting with the frustration of a generation of Scots let down by society's promises. We see the fading steel town,...