Garça Branca

During a unpleasant date, a bartender narrates the situation from afar, which escalates to the point of absurdity.

A Skull

One Thousand Paper Cranes

Two remarkable women unwittingly work together, across oceans and decades, to create a powerful symbol of peace, the paper crane.

Cranes and Voices

Cranes and Voices follows, on one side, people who hear voices and share their daily lives, and on the other, a collective of tenants who investigate their neighbourhood through its noises, its vibrations and its constru

Thousand Cranes

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

One Thousand Cranes

A dark, sweet film about Dorian, a romantic young runaway who makes art out of everything she sees. She watches the world from a Brooklyn rooftop and folds one thousand paper cranes to get her wish, the love of graffiti

Cranes

Cranes in the city of Hamburg

The Cranes Call

Working with their team at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, Anya Neistat, a brilliant war crimes investigator, joins forces with Solomiia Stasiv, a young Ukrainian woman just entering the field. Together they document

Early Cranes

Sultanmurat is a 14 year old boy who lives in a small Kyrgyz village. All the men have gone off to war so he is left alone to tend to the horses who are weak with hunger.

The Jade Skull

A famous archaeologist must prevent an ancient jade skull from falling into the wrong hands to prevent the apocalypse.

Mother of Snow Cranes

Over 90 years old Ellen Vuosalo has lived many lives. First as a Finnish immigrant in Canada, then as a zoology student in California and finally as a mother of snow cranes in Iran. Iiris Härmä's Mother of Snow Cranes t

The Reflection of the Cranes

Lucia, a 45-year-old woman, leads a routine life in her roadside inn, when one day Amelia, a young traveler trying to find part of her past in some local waterfalls, shows up at her reception. When an immediate attractio

'The Cranes are Flying' and Soviet Cinema

Film scholar Ian Christie unpacks why 'The Cranes Are Flying' is such a landmark of Soviet cinema, breaking away as it did from decades of forcibly pro-state propaganda with its focus on individual tragedy and its ambiva

Of Aardvarks, Ants, Inspectors, and Cranes

Animation documentary

Thousand Cranes

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the Ameri

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

True story (based on the book by Eleanor Coerr) about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki, who was two years old when the atom bomb fell on her city of Hiroshima. Like so many other survivors of that horrific day, she su

Where the White Cranes Dance

Yakutia in the 1960s. A boy named Vanya returns home after spending six years in hospitals following a spinal injury. However, the happiness of his reunited family is short-lived: his mother dies in childbirth. To comfor

A Thousand Flying Cranes

Le Crâneur

A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

The Last to Leave Are the Cranes

Natalia, a young Chilean woman, comes to Europe for the first time searching for her family history. She starts a road trip through Poland together with her school friend Morín, who moved to Hamburg three years ago tryin