Biography

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal. At her 98th birthday celebrations she opens up to close ...

The film will track Eero through all of his season, his travels and the making of his action part for this year. This will be told in a ...

A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.

British punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called “the voice of Britain” by their fans, “Britain’s angriest band” by ...

The Possibilities Are Endless tells the incredible story of Edwyn Collins, the Scottish songwriter who suffered a stroke, an explosion in the ...

Adam, a young Tanzanian boy persecuted because of his albinism, finds a kindred spirit in Peter, a Canadian man with the same condition. Together ...

An examination of the career of Jacques Vergès, attorney for members of Algeria’s FLN, Palestine’s FPLP, the Khmer Rouge, Carlos and ...

Friends and colleagues talk about the life and career of the enigmatic and iconic British singer Dusty Springfield.

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton is a feature-length documentary about avant-garde Los Angeles-based record label Stones Throw Records. The film weaves ...

Seyolo Zantoko is a young doctor graduate who is taking the first steps in his career to a rural village in France with his family. In the ...

A film so delicate you can almost break it off in your hand, this is a stunning biography of Ruan Lingyu, China’s first real movie star, a ...

Based on Joni Eareckson’s autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope ...

An energetic exploration of male identity via the lives, personalities, and adventures of a diverse band of men, real men across the globe all ...

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility.

When a rock n roll star’s life comes crashing down, he must fight his past demons to realize his childhood ambition of becoming a preacher.

The life and career of Bret Hart is recounted from his youth, through the start of his career, his years in the WWF, up to the present day. Bret ...

In 1977, Sam Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film. Beginning decades before the modern obsession with selfies and ...

Parador Húngaro is the touching story of a friendship spanning generations and national boundaries: a Hungarian soldier escapes to the West in ...

Eight Hundred Times Lonely is an eighty-four-minute non-commercial art house documentary film about famous 86-year-old German filmmaker Edgar ...

Three people had to live together for one night.

In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was ...

Elementary school student Mibou’s daily revolves around his love for fish. He sees, draws, and eats them every day. His father is worried ...

When her whole tribe disappears from Westerners, Karana and her brother have to survive themselves. However, her brother is killed by wild dogs, ...

In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs ...

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from ...

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a ...

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism ...

Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970’s (though some sources say as ...

Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner’s father.