Culture Movies

Could Australia's past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire. Exploring the profound...

The film takes place on December 21, 2012, while the people of the town of Quillagua await the supposed "end of the world" that the Mayans predicted...

Home to the Mitterrand family since 1965, Latche was the former president's base for three decades. Family, friends, and world leaders gathered there...

The Europeans want to be forgiven for the tragic colonial period. The aborigines try to preserve their ancient roots from the present and the future....

A short film that interrogates the growing presence of artificial intelligence within human cultural life, questioning whether a system built on data...

As Jenny, an aspiring chef, sits down for a Lunar New Year dinner with her family, she is engulfed by the disassociation with the language and...

Ludwig van Beethoven, absorbed in his world, composes in the forest under the snowstorm. In the solitude of this place, his temple, he feels happy,...

This is a film that shows the response of some natives to a group of gorillas that had been foraging for food in their gardens. They view the...

Shadows & Illuminations follows an older Balinese man, Nyoman Kereta, as he struggles with the intrusion of spirits into his consciousness. Kereta...

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...

The Philippines remains the only nation without legalized divorce. Through the perspectives of a controversial priest, a women's rights advocate, and...

Chez Schwartz takes us inside a year in the life of Schwartz's Deli - the unique 75-year-old landmark on Montreal's historic Main. Filmed through...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

The director sits down with her grandparents, Elenea and Manuel Papelera as they look back at what they remember about growing up at the end and post...

Jackie Brutsche tries to unravel the dark secrets of her family and answer unanswered questions about her mother.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and...

This is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Trinh T. Minh-ha...

Light Upon Light: A Documentary on Hijab is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of the diverse, raw, and untold stories of hijabi women....