the backroads

In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

Director James Nguyen will release his short documentary film, CLIMATE FIX which suggests how carbon removal technology can be used to fix climate change-global warming.

An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.

A short film on Chris Marker

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experiential" form, consistent with powerful mantras heard on the soundtrack of the film. Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Lama, was the advisor.

The first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe, Bliss was shot over the course of two days using only available light to create a lyrical study of the interior of the Church of St. John on the island of Hydra.

Burn victims get to enjoy a family day at the beach thanks to an outing organized by the Association des grands brûlés.

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

Elem Klimov's tribute to his late wife, director Larisa Shepitko, killed in a car accident a year earlier. Features excerpts from all of her films, and archival audio of her discussing life and art.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

A documentary that captures some moments on set of filming of Luc Besson's "Nikita".

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.

A trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards the small town. A fanfare for the summer!

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.