People's Republic of Desire

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, f...

Tomáš Etzler worked for seven years as a foreign correspondent in China. He came to know a country t...

Portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audience (esp women) for years. His privat...

Can three comedians from Bosnia overcome the bitterness of the past to reunite and reconcile? Often...

A moving and very funny portrait of the personal and professional life of the magnificent French com...

Women in China is a timely two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically -...

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs hal...

Jon Richardson uncovers and celebrates the astounding breadth of Britain's weird and wonderful perso...

After consolidating itself as a tourist destination in the mid-1960s, this small coastal village has...

China’s President Xi Jinping is a force to be reckoned with. As leader of the Communist colossus, he...

A highway is waiting to go through a quiet village in Hunan, a province in central China where Mao w...

A first-hand look into the revolutionary rise of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective k...

French documentary from 2013. Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing were married for 37 years, f...

Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refu...

Portrait of Mrs. B., a tough charismatic North Korean woman who smuggles between North Korea, China...

An abridged history of motion pictures: In 1888 George Eastman registered the made up word “Kodak”...