A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
Robert Altman, Allison Anders, Paul Bartel, Jeff Bridges, Ira Deutchman, David Lynch, Maggie Greenwald, Geoffrey Gilmore, Leslie Harris, Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Jon Jost

2026

2025

Staged behind the scenes look at the McWalter movie.
2025

This photography-based short film depicts a part of Athens that remains hidden from the glamour of Hollywood films.
2025

Damiano David's short film for the presentation of his first somo album: Funny Little Fears. He speaks and sings about his fears.
2025

After his father’s death, Vicky, a young dancer, abandons his art and succumbs to alcohol, while his mother faces an impossible dilemma of sending her son to a de-addiction centre.
2024

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.
2024

Skip Liberty enlisted in the Army in 1968. During his tour in Vietnam he shot 3,100 feet of Super 8 film, over 3 hours worth. Upon returning to the states the film was placed in storage, Skip had never seen the footage he shot. Until now.
2024

For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar winning American filmmaker has impressed with hard-hitting moviemaking that holds a mirror up to contemporary America and the world.
2023

2023

A married couple working together at a pinball museum explore the state of pinball and what it means to them.
2023

2021 was a turning point for Belarus and 6 Belarusian students - as well as for the city of Łódź, Poland, in which they found themselves. Across the rails of change and transformation, documenting a time that has not been before and will not repeat again. Heroes of the film have very different fates and experiences, but they are all connected by the place they found themselves in - the post-industrial and post-apocalyptic city, which becomes a part of their story and a hero of its own. Students, transport, quaters, youth, revolution, local apocalypse, changes and turns - they all mix in a documentary kaleidoscope 'Across the Rails'.
2022

Georg Stadler, from Lower Bavaria, is one of the last well builders who still masters the old techniques. This documentary follows him while building his, possible, last well.
2022

On April 20 of 1988, six young people stormed the central Banamex branch in Los Mochis and held hostage the people inside the location. 30 years after this incident, the survivors recount what happened.
2019

Alternating Philippines and Saudi Arabia as her home, the filmmaker uses personal home videos and present footage to tell the story of her family.
2019

French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews.
2014

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
2002

A documentary about Shaolin Kung Fu starring Jet Li
1994
Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/director Geoff Steven scored a major coup by signing Easy Rider legend Peter Fonda as his presenter. Travelling to Aotearoa, Samoa, Japan and the United States, the doco traces key developments in tattooing, including its importance in the Pacific, prison-inspired styles, and the influence of 1960s counterculture. Legendary tattooists feature (including Americans Ed Hardy and Jack Rudy), while the closing credits parade some eye-opening full body tattoos.
1984
A bold reveal of a rose tattoo opens this 1980 documentary on tattooing in New Zealand. The potted history includes visits to tattoo parlours on K' Road and Hastings, and the studios of industry legends Steve Johnson and Roger Ingerton. Tattooists discuss public stigma, people's reasons for getting inked, and popular designs: sailors, serpents, swallows and tā moko. Made for documentary slot Contact, Skin Pics chronicles a time when "folk art has become high art".
1980