The Riddle of Lumen

“The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic. As in “Zorns Lemma” the viewer is called upon to recognize or invent a principle of association linking each shot

Luostari lumen keskellä

Life in the Christian Orthodox nunnery of Lintula in Heinävesi.

Lumen - Акустика (Концерт в центре им. Вс. Мейерхольда)

Lumens

Combining fragments of images and climatic fields, Lumens unfolds space and time based on an experience with rhythms and repetitions, where everything that returns always returns differently.

Daughters of Snow

Daughters of Snow tells the story of two sisters, Anniina and Emilia who are enjoying a Scandinavian winter day. As the girls play with an ice sled their shared crush, attraction to the same man, Olavi opens the door for

120,000 lumens

At risk of erasure, Los Angeles' Little Tokyo community fought to build a permanent home for its Japanese-American arts and culture. The Center opened its doors in 1980. Four decades later, in the quiet of the pandemic,

Lumene: Privatisation

In this documentary essay, Congolese artist David Shongo addresses the problems of knowledge production and asks the important question of how it was influenced permanently and systematically by colonialist power. Analys

Society of the Snow

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Snow Babies

Caroline Quentin narrates this heart-warming tale of a special group of baby animals born in some of the coldest and harshest places on Earth. We follow the ups and downs of impossibly cute yet plucky baby emperor pengui

Alive! Sixty Days Under The Snow

This is the story of Peter Skyllberg, who defied the weather, biology and human science by surviving for 60 days inside a car buried under snow with nothing but sandwiches and snow to eat or drink. Skyllberg was eventual

Snow Animals

Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to survive, and even thrive, through the winter.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has

Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?

An in-depth look at the creative process behind "Society of the Snow," featuring cast, crew, director J.A. Bayona and even real-life survivors.