Posted on May 17, 2022
Metamorphosis is an allegorical novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
This polemical documentary—using rare authentic images and newsreels from both sides—justifies the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. It represents West Berlin as the frontline of Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
This revealing program looks at the history of the Volkswagen Beetle opening up the secret history of the World’s most popular car. By the sixties, the Beetle had won Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
This professionally-produced documentary shot on location in Neubrandenburg, Germany, offers viewers a fascinating human perspective on daily life in post-Wende Germany. Nine short portraits of citizens comprise the video. Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
This video traces the major social, cultural, technological and political developments that took place in Austria between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions of 1848, a Read More
Posted on May 16, 2022
This ground-breaking video series combines drama, documentary and critical analysis by renowned authors and critics – including Anthony Burgess, V.S. Pritchett, and Frank Kermode – to illustrate the works Read More
Posted on May 9, 2022
The film explores a middle-class Egyptian girl’s coming of age, against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egyptian revolution. It examines women’s rights in Read More
Posted on May 9, 2022
I am Free is associated with the onset of a feminist context to Egyptian films in the 1960s. The film is also known as part of Salah Abu Seif’s Read More
Posted on May 9, 2022
Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka (Moran Rosenblatt), the only child of Ultra Orthodox Jewish (Sephardic) parents from Jerusalem, who Read More
