The Commandant's Shadow
A documentary starring Hans-Jürgen Höss, Kai Höss and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
The true story that inspired the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest, The Commandant’s Shadow tells how, eight decades after Auschwitz, Hans Jurgen Höss and Anita Lasker Wallfisch – both survivors in their very different ways – come face to face, together with their children, to explore how the Holocaust has impacted all their lives ... (more)
Buñuel: A Surrealist Filmmaker
A documentary
Javier Espada explores how Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest precursors of surrealist cinema through works like An Andalusian Dog and The Golden Age, began to move away from this movement but never completely abandoned it, maintaining a strong oneiric element in his films ... (more)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
A documentary starring Christopher Reeve, Amanda Reeve and Matthew Reeve
Never-before-seen home movies and extraordinary personal archives reveal how Christopher Reeve went from unknown actor to iconic movie star as the ultimate screen superhero. He learned the true meaning of heroism as an activist after suffering a tragic accident that left him quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
We're All Going to Die
A documentary starring Benjamin Knight
Ben is worried. Overwhelmed by the world's encroaching crises, he travels from Brandenburg to London to Kansas to the Yucatan peninsula and many places in between, to find out how to cope with social and ecological collapse.
Dahomey (2024)
A documentary starring Gildas Adannou, Habib Ahandessi and Joséa Guedje
November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892 ... (more)
Togoland Projections
A documentary
Following in the footsteps of the Hamburg film director Hans Schomburgk who travelled through the German colony of Togo from Lomé to the north with his companion and actress Meg Gehrts in 1913, Jürgen Ellinghaus screens the footage shot then at its locations in modern-day Togo. Schomburgk’s affirmative images show slave labour, humiliation and the arrogance of the colonial power ... (more)