Lonesome

Recalling Sunrise, this dazzling, visually expressive masterpiece set against a vibrant New York City tells a simple yet powerful story of two lonely people in the big city who meet […]

Metropolis

This classic sci-fi epic, one of the biggest film events of the century when it was first released in 1927, tells the story of Metropolis, a futuristic city sharply divided […]

Changing Sea, The

Strange days are dawning in the global sea. Creatures are on the move. Dead zones are expanding. The foundation of life is slowly eroding. And we are the agents of […]

Bodmers Journey

On May 17, 1832 the German ethnologist and naturalist Prince Maximilian zu Wied and the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer set out on a long and adventurous journey into the […]

Burning the Future: Coal in America

The explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia is examined in this film. Confronted by emerging “clean coal” energy policies, local activists watch a world blind […]

Drill Baby Drill

One day, the people living in a small village in far eastern Poland, an ecologically pristine agricultural area, discover that Chevron, the world’s fourth largest energy corporation, plans to build […]

Weather War, The

In a blend of land art performance and road movie, Swedish artist duo Bigert and Bergström travel to the U.S. tornado belt with their special machine-sculpture, the Tornado Diverter. The […]

Happiness

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living with his mother in the remote village of Laya in Bhutan. TV will soon come to the village. In 1999, King […]

Metamorphosen

Set in Russia’s south Ural region, this documentary, filmed in black and white, tells the story of living in an area with some of the largest amounts of radioactive contamination […]