Films 2013

 The father of the modern documentary who directed the first commercially successful documentary, Nanook of the North (1922) and staged nearly every scene in the film. A great...

 ”I believe that we who were tortured will never be the same.” Hector recalls the events that happened over 40 years ago. Mervi Junkkonen’s Jälki el...

 Dutch cinematographer Anton Corbijn rose to fame in the 1980s as a promotional photographer for artists such as Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, and Depeche Mode. Since then, he has worked...

Four over 90-years-old Jewish ladies have been friends since elementary school despite the hardships of their life. During the Second World War when Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany...

Fernando is adrift. The only consolations in the windy streets of Stockholm are drugs, his dog and mother Olga, who thinks that Fernando should be sent to stay with his decent brother...

 Finnsurf is the first Finnish surf-film. A wild guess is that it’s also the world’s only surf-film in which someone surfs with an icicle attached to their...

Awarded as the best documentary film at the Warsaw Film Festival, Fuck for Forest delves into the operation of the titular organisation, which combines activism with amateur porn. The community...

 An island off the coast of Peru, Guañape Sur, seems to consist of nothing but rock and seagulls circling in the sky. When a detachment of workers brave the hills, the nature of...

 It’s misty and grey. A long bridge crosses the river. The hospital corridor leading to the operating room feels long as well as the camera captures young women with long black-and-...

 Masao Adachi is a Japanese writer-director who is best known for his politically radical films of the 1960s...

Kumaré is a hilarious film about the expedition of conquest of a fake guru. Director Vikram Gandhi wants to field test what people are ready to believe in. He...

Flowers and bees are not just about honey; without bees, the days of humankind would be numbered.

Director Markus Imhoof was born and raised in a bee-friendly home. He travels...

 Scooters buzz in heavy traffic on a dusky evening in Phnom Penh. In the glow of yellow street lights an Israeli born Ilan Shickman is giving tarot card readings to provide for his local...

 The rain whips the windows of an apartment building. Korean Young-Chang reaches out the window to the sky, not caring about the raindrops dribbling down his arms. "Standing water feels...

Private Universe is the latest testament to the skill of Czech filmmakerHelena Třeštíková to get startlingly close to her subjects, to...

What is Sarah Palin like, as a person? Filmmaker Nick Broomfield tries to find the answer in Wasilla, Alaska. The film spans Palin’s career from a schoolgirl to the mayor...

Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc., did not give many interviews. One of the few long interviews of him was done in 1995 for the PBS television series Triumph of the Nerds. Shot with only...

Sweet Dreams tells the story of Rwanda’s first ice cream parlour and the women behind it, the percussion group called Ingoma Nshya. It is also a story about the effects of the genocide...

 At the end of the 1960s Ronald Reagan, president of the United States, declares a war on drugs. A battle which is to last for decades begins, resulting in millions of prisoners and burning...

In his home country of Finland, a statue was recently erected in honor of Jari Litmanen, the taciturn soccer player whose first name became widely popular among new parents in and around Amsterdam...

Make yourself comfortable and relax. A journey into ideology may begin. Your guide will be philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who is also known as theElvis of cultural theory. The Pervert...

“Look, even the cats are fighting!” says Kais, a Yemeni tourist guide, with a tired smile. Kais’ business is not doing well, his wife is pregnant and threatens to divorce...

Her goal was to make a self-portrait film, but decided to make it about the subject that has been the hardest in life, which is a car crash where her grandmother and other relatives...

 The summers of New Castle are cool, but when a hot day arrives the Atlantic Ocean is near. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen photographed the northeastern beaches of England and their...

 An old man lives alone in a ramshackle house in the middle of a forest. The skilfully shot black and white film follows Jake's life with nothing else changing around him except the seasons...

 Boxing can be practised against the soles of slippers. Going to a shopping centre and pretending for a moment to be bike shopping for one’s son can be used to escape a modest day-to-...

 The cussing grandmother Aniela drags her grandson Daniel out from the police station. She hits the boy with her handbag, threatening that this was the last time she comes to his rescue. The...