Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Asif Kapadia · Documentary · 2015
Assembled from home video and archive footage, the film traces the singer Amy Winehouse from early promise through fame, addiction, and her death at twenty-seven.
Krzysztof Kieslowski · Film · 1991
Two identical women, one in Poland and one in France, live separate lives yet sense a mysterious bond with a second self they will never meet.
Celine Sciamma · Film · 2011
A ten year old who has just moved to a new neighbourhood introduces herself to the local children as a boy named Mikael, and keeps the secret through the summer.
Joachim Trier · Film · 2021
A woman in her late twenties in Oslo moves between studies, jobs, and two very different men as she struggles to settle on who she wants to be.
Coralie Fargeat · Film · 2024
A fading television star takes a black market drug that generates a younger version of herself, and the two selves turn on each other with grotesque results.
Pawel Pawlikowski · Film · 2013
In 1960s Poland, a young novice about to take her vows learns she is Jewish and sets out with her aunt to find how her family died in the war.
Agnes Varda · Film · 1985
After a young drifter is found frozen in a ditch, the people who crossed her path recount her final weeks of wandering and refusal.
Fatih Akin · Film · 2004
Two Turkish Germans who meet in a psychiatric clinic after suicide attempts marry for convenience, then fall into a love that is as destructive as it is real.
Tim Wardle · Documentary · 2018
Three men discover in their late teens that they are triplets separated at birth, and learn they were the unwitting subjects of a secret study on twins.
Justine Triet · Film · 2019
A psychotherapist who leaves her practice to write a novel takes on one last patient, an actress whose crisis pulls her into a ruin of her own making.
Calin Peter Netzer · Film · 2017
A couple's decade together is reconstructed out of order around her severe panic attacks and his role as caretaker, until it is unclear who is holding whom.
Fran Kranz · Film · 2021
In a church side room, the parents of a boy killed in a school shooting sit down with the parents of the boy who killed him.
Nicolas Philibert · Documentary · 2023
On a barge moored on the Seine that serves as a day centre, adults living with psychiatric conditions make art, talk, and share the work of daily life.
Alain Resnais · Film · 1980
Three intercut lives illustrate a biologist's theories of behaviour as each character fights, flees, or gives up under the pressures of work and love.
Julian Schnabel · Film · 2007
After a stroke leaves him paralysed and able only to blink one eye, a magazine editor dictates a memoir letter by letter.