Japan: A Story of Love and Hate
Naoki once had it all – the fast car, the executive home. Boss of his own business he lived the good-life when Japan’s economy was at it’s height. Then the bubble burst – and he met Yoshie.
Golden Robot
32 year old female boxer Steluta Duta tries to buy her own home by winning boxing match after boxing match only to find her life is a continuous loop. As…
Fire & Rain
Created at the Viennale’s invitation, James Benning’s short film is both a simple and subtle piece of cinema. Benning shot the work process in a steelworks in the Ruhr area….
Addicted to Sexting
A look at the social-media phenomenon known as sexting, the process of sending sexually explicit photos via text messages or on the Internet, includes scandals it has caused as well…
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world….
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium’s first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from…
More Human Than Human
Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”. Inspired by Brian Christian’s study…
Take Light
TAKE LIGHT is a look at the tangled wires of Nigeria’s electricity crisis, told through the everyday trials and tribulations of a charismatic electrician.
Pray Away
A powerful exposé on gay conversion programs, revealing the damage inflicted by shame and repression through intimate testimonies from current members and former leaders of the pray the gay away…
Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer
The sensational true story of the most infamous tabloid in US history, a wild, probing look at how one newspaper’s prescient grasp of its readers’ darkest curiosities led it to…
Men for Hire
The film follows the everyday life of modern women and their Men for Hire in Poland, Germany and UK. In doing so, we explore a side of human nature reflecting…
Titicut Follies
The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways…