Whether it's a quick trip, serious travelling, an
inner voyage or an odyssey of epic proportions, these films will
transport you to other places, both real and imagined. The journeys
are endless and they start right here...
Renowned documentarian Frederick Wiseman's beautifully observed
study of the people who frequent a Texas boxing gym.
Lyrical, restless, strikingly visual road movie about a romantic
encounter between two loners who find themselves travelling through
unmapped terrain in Armenia.
"What defines a country?" is the question in this fascinating
and humorous doco about micro-nations directed by Jody Shapiro.
A lyrical portrait of the ever-changing city of Shanghai from
the award-winning director of Still Life, Jia Zhangke.
A magical, purely visual cinematic experience that has won the
hearts and minds of moviegoers and critics all over the world, set
in a rustic Italian village seemingly unchanged since medieval
times.
Groundbreaking user-generated feature, created by director Kevin
Mcdonald (with executive producers Ridley and Tony Scott) from
thousands of hours of footage shot on a single day by people all
over the world.
Kelly Reichardt's (Old Joy, Wendy and
Lucy) absorbing and beautifully minimalist western about a
group of families lost in the wilderness of Oregon in the 1840s.
Stars Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood and Shirley Henderson.
For over 20 years, award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Fox followed
a Tibetan Buddhist master's relationship with his Italian-born son
unfolding against the backdrop of the modern world.
Documentarian Leonard Retel Helmrich has followed the Sjamsuddin
family of Indonesia for 12 years; this portrait of their daily
lives is both poetic and exquisitely real.
This beautiful, award-winning film takes the form of mystical
fable about death and memory set amongst the Finno-Ugric people of
central-western Russia.
Ulrich Köhler won Best Director at the Berlinale for this
striking drama about a German physician's obsession with
Africa.