Avant son départ pour un voyage humanitaire en Afrique, Edward retrouve sa mère et sa sœur pour des vacances en famille sur l’île de Tresco. Son père, censé les rejoindre, se défile à la dernière minute. Son absence fait remonter à la surface colères enfouies, rivalités voilées et tensions réprimées….
Men and women in the Horn of Africa and adjiacent regions of the Middle East tell stories of their relationships and contacts with demons and spirits in their life and culture..
Alexander Vasiliev, scientifique russe, est à la tête d'une expédition russo-suédoise envoyée dans l'archipel du Svalbard. Sa mission est de déterminer la forme du globe à l'aide de signaux-relais que son équipe doit poser de part et d'autre de l'île. Dans leur campement isolé, les chercheurs doivent affronter un climat hostile. Ils découvrent également que quelqu'un s'infiltre pendant la nuit dans leur campement pour dérober leurs provisions..
Stockholm Archipelago, 2010. An undated letter, written in French, is found in an old house..
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before..
A film about the remote islands of Penghu archipelago, Taiwan, from the point of view of the children in the remaining elementary schools, between 8 and 11 years old. With the participation of the schools in the islands: Jibei, Niaoyu, Hujing, Wangan, Jiangjun, Qimei..
This documentation explores anthropologically various nuances of Car Nicobar tribes within the geographical settings of the Nicobar. It provides a rare view of the lesser known life style, belief system rituals practices festivals and livelihood patterns and traces the oral traditions mythology, costumes and dialect of the Car Nicobarese. The documentary highlights the vernacular style and architecture including the indigenous beehive like thickly thatched huts with afo grass and traditional structural geometry. The film explores the Betal and Coconut production as an economic activity within an overall fame work of ecology and associated folklore..
Un vrai film d'animation sur des îles inventés. Sur un territoire physique, imaginaire, langagier, politique. Sur un pays réel ou rêvé, ou quelque chose entre les deux..
Kalle, 14 years old, has lost his footing in reality when his family splits up. During an escape, he lives alone for a few days at the family's cottage where he studies nature and writes "The Tale of Lightning", a superman freed from problems..
This is a large-scale canvass depicting life in the Solovetsky monastery. What does the spiritual life of man signify? what is religious tradition and how does it relate to the modern world? how does faith influence human life? the solovetsky islands are a milestone in the spiritual geography of russia. they are marked by spiritual, historical, cultural events which have a profound bearing on the national memory. located on the outskirts of russia, the archipelago was destined to become one of the powerful symbols of the russian spirit. the movie looks at the deeper meaning of existence, faith, hope and love..
The summer of 2004, three teens are involved in a boat accident and an unknown girl ends up dead. Ten years later, the same group plus some others, travel to their summer cabin where the dark deeds of their past starts haunting them. Dangerous water skiis and a crazy person attacks them, and nobody knows why..
Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual issues that confront the political, questions of survival that confront ideals. Can we still ask the simplest questions?.
This is the first Greek documentary about disposable plastics, the pollution they cause in Greek seas and the efforts for their gradual abolition..
During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology..
Fragments of the daily life of Álvaro, who left Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s to invent a new life for himself in Brazil..
The first film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series. This is a video that shows images of places with explanations of ghost zones such as Maruyama-cho, which is called the birthplace of the famous candy store ghost, and the Chichibu sacred site Eifukuji Temple, which is said to be a zone of fear and haunted by ghosts..
