Sinahsta Parvani (1919)

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

Ángela, licenciada en ciencias de la información, prepara su tesis sobre la violencia audiovisual. Su director, Figueroa, se compromete a buscarle películas, mientras que un amigo, Chema, la invita a su casa a una sesión de cine gore y pornográfico. Figueroa descubre en la videoteca de la Facultad unas galerías con cientos de videocintas. Poco después muere en extrañas circunstancias. Ángela descubre el cadáver y se da cuenta de que ha sufrido un infarto mientras veía una cinta de vídeo. Ángela se hace con la cinta y hace un terrible descubrimiento: se trata de una snuff movie, una película ilegal en la que se filma al asesinato real de gente inocente. La joven comienza a sospechar que en la Facultad existe una red de tráfico de este tipo de películas. Pero, ¿quién es el responsable de ella?

Sonja es una brillante estudiante de una familia bávara de clase media. Tras ganar un premio europeo con un ensayo, se convierte en el orgullo de la poblacion. Pero todo cambia cuando en su siguiente trabajo decide escribir sobre "Mi ciudad durante el Tercer Reich". Las puertas se empiezan a cerrar y todo son evasiones... (FILMAFFINITY)

On April 8th 1994, Kurt Cobain - the lead singer of post-punk band Nirvana - was found dead in his Seattle home of an apparent shotgun wound to the head and three times the lethal dose of heroin in his system. Today, the cause of his death is still debated. This film charts the tragic downward spiral and increasing isolation of this hero of a generation, which even his marriage to Courtney Love and the birth of his daughter Frances Bean could not stop.

Una joven descubre unas cartas en el archivo de Harvard que su bisabuela escribió a un poeta polaco.

Montreal of another time is reborn into screen through images from a hundred of movies and shorts produced by the National Film Board of Canada while at its first four decades of existence. Port activities, musical shows, presence of Church, labors life, hockey fever and the best years of "Red Light" are few of the chapters of this collective family album.

In the language of a film-letter intended for the future generation of his family, the author rescues his mother's story through photos and videos to prevent the next generation from going through the same ignorance he had about her.

Dr Helen Czerski delves into the Horizon archive to chart the transformation of a little-known theory into one of the greatest scientific undertakings in history.

The Art of Nom explores an ancient and nearly extinct Vietnamese script called Chu Nom and the five scholarly artists known as Zenei, Gang of Five. The beauty, heritage and emotion of the Chu Nom characters inspire Zenei’s art. The film also examines Vietnam’s culture, history, customs, and the social impact of rapid modernization in a changing world. Art of Nom follows Zenei through their research and explorations that takes them far off the beaten path. They enter hidden library chambers of Buddhist pagodas to examine original Nom scriptures and woodblocks preserved by monks through the centuries. Led by renowned artist Le Quoc Viet, Zenei is a collective of avant-garde calligraphers forging a new path, merging contemporary visual expression with a nearly extinct script. Zenei elevates art and history to a new level of experience.

In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Communist bloc, this newsreel was lost in the confusion of the fighting in Yugoslavia. In Journal No. 1 Hito Steyerl attempts to find out how the footage got lost and what was on this document from the Sutjeska studio. In the simultaneous projection of Journal No. 1 the ‘unattainability of an historical zero hour of the national identity’ takes concrete form: The lost newsreel reports on a literacy campaign as well as Muslim women confidently removing their headscarves. We listen however to eyewitnesses trying to recapture the lost content and we see the artist Arman Kulasic making a number of drawings that resemble the story-boards for the lost film. What appears to be moments of great change remain limited by subjective and uncertain memory. The film was premiered at documenta 12.

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, and archival images of television and film; using parts of her prose and poetry always with first-person testimonies; from Porto to Lisbon, from Granja to Lagos, from the Atlantic Sea to the Mediterranean, from Greece to 25 April: the passions and disappointments of a life and work dedicated to the search for the real, freedom and justice.

A fly-on-the-wall display of lives changing and time passing told through an unanswered question.

Made for Milton Keynes Gallery's 10th anniversary using images from its archive and language from its press releases and catalogues.

Así como la primera intención del estado fue negar la existencia de la homosexualidad, el México moderno se ha valido de la privación a la propia representación para cancelar la humanidad de la llamada "la diferencia sexual". El siglo de las luces es un documental de reapropiación de material audiovisual y relatos nacionales, una perspectiva crítica ante 100 años de desapariciones de cuerpos políticos.

Saturn Films lo enseña todo. Un rápido vistazo a la primera productora austriaca especializada exclusivamente en películas eróticas que realizó su producción entre 1906 y 1911 hasta que la censura acabó con la empresa y casi todas las películas fueron destruidas a hachazos.

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.

Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the glamour of jet setting at Mach 2 were stunning scientific innovations and political intrigue. Fifteen years after Concorde's final flight, this documentary takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed effort to design and build Concorde in two countries at once - and the crew members who flew her.

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living and working in Wellington, New Zealand. Feeling alone and disconnected from life, she projects her romantic fantasies onto the paintings she loves, until one day her song brings Reginald - a Knight of the Realm - to life. His carefree innocence and zest for life begin to open Rachel up to the beauty around her, but the fates have a way of making trouble when miracles occur...

The history of Amos, a town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec).

Documentary about archivists in Zealand.