Iranian singer Googoosh is considered her country’s first and greatest pop icon. She was three years old when she started performing with her father, an acrobat and artist. Before the 1979 revolution, she was able to practice her music freely, playing for the country’s royalty

Led by Professor Eske Willerslev, a team of international scientists embark on a monumental mission. They have five years to map the genomes of five thousand people who have been buried underground for thousands of years. As the DNA library grows, Willerslev and his team

Does an almost 100-year-old opera still have something to say about our own time? Chinese artist Ai Weiwei explores the question in his directorial debut as an opera director, with a radical reinterpretation of Puccini’s masterpiece ‘Turandot’ at the beautiful and classic Teatro dell’Opera in

When David Bowie calls your album the best album of all time, you’re probably on the right track. Unfortunately, Jeff Buckley only got to release the album ‘Grace’ before drowning at the age of 30 in 1997. It was a tragedy in every way. Through

As you read this, millions of products are being bought and soon thrown away. We are filling our shopping carts, thinking less and longing for more. Our basic needs have become cogs in a profit machine where we work and consume until we die. But

Who remembers what? And is it even possible to talk about right and wrong when talking about memories and memory? These questions hang over Nicoline Skotte’s debut film, in which she delves into the great childhood trauma of her life: her parents’ dramatic divorce. It’s

Goulven’s typewriter has broken down. It’s catastrophic because he writes all his poetry on it, so he has called in two male carers to see if they can fix it. The two are an inimitable duo, and under Goulven’s worried gaze they take the typewriter

A crowd of people are waiting in line to catch a train out of Kyiv. In a bread factory, workers continue to pull steaming pastries from the oven as bombs rumble in the distance. One particular moment cuts through time: a convoy of coffins moves

Pasha is an ordinary schoolteacher in a small Russian village. He works at the same school he attended as a child and has dedicated himself completely to teaching. The students love him for being creative, mischievous, progressive and not as rigid as his colleagues. But

Palestinian cousins Chatila and Reda have fled Lebanon. They dream of a new start in Germany, but are trapped in the streets of Athens – without money, without passports, and without a way forward. They hustle to survive and save money for fake passports to