Gunnar Hall Jensen is one of Norway’s most recognized documentarians. Always with a wry take on life, existence and the biggest topics – and with a sure and forgiving eye for the ability of all of us to screw up and fail while doing everything

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

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

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

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

Mrs. Li suspects her husband of having an affair. She is in shock, but has not given up on love, so she resorts to a method that is less far-fetched than it sounds: She hires the young woman Wang Zhenxi to infiltrate and sabotage her

The ghosts of the past haunt brothers Henrik and Christian in a very unusual family drama filmed over 14 years. A bitter inheritance dispute has cast long shadows over their shared upbringing, and as adults they both struggle to find their footing in life. Now

If you want to understand 21st century visual culture, you have two options. You can distance yourself from it and try to look at it from the outside. Or you can immerse yourself in it and examine it from the inside. Italian artist Adele Tulli

The Cold War was frozen solid when world leaders from East and West met in Helsinki in the summer of 1975 to discuss security and cooperation. A political chess game with world peace at stake, and a historic event that no one could really agree