Iskra Movies

The mother and housewife of our time becomes involved in the Flag War.

Six years after I left my country, Brazil, I was sent an old sound reel in the post and I discovered a recording of my parent's wedding ceremony. I...

Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s....

In a humanitarian camp opened in Paris, refugees are in transit. In this "first reception" center, they are resting from the street where they were...

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations...

Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each...

Writer and pedagogue Fernand Deligny influenced a number of artists and French intellectuals. His work on autism influenced Deleuze and Guattari's...

Looking back at the history of the struggle for true equality, we follow the daughters and sons of immigrant workers who have been nominated as...

Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images...

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices...

In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group...

The violent break-up of former Yugoslavia is described from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnically mixed couple in war-torn city of...