THE HELSINKI EFFECT brings one of the most important diplomatic events of the 1970s to life in an entertaining and informative way: the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). At the same time, the film shows how this political event still influences world politics today. In this way, the audience experiences a journey through time that remains…

Gimme Shelter is an American documentary film from 1970. It follows the final weeks of The Rolling Stones’ 1969 U.S. tour, which ended with the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. The film is named after “Gimme Shelter,” the title track of the 1969 album Let It Bleed. In 1971, the documentary was shown as the…

What is real? What is fake? And who decides what an original is? In the copy-art city of Dafen, thousands of artists paint masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Rembrandt day and night. Millions of paintings are sold around the world every year. Filmmaker Stanislaw Mucha takes a humorous and sharp look at originals, copies, and the value…

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: Mr. Nobody Against Putin tells the story of Pawel Talankin, a teacher at a school in the copper-mining town of Karabash in the Ural Mountains. The town was once described by UNESCO as “the most toxic place on Earth,” which for years turned it into a grim tourist attraction. Talankin himself…