The Archipelago

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.

A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.

Journey as the traditional Indonesian meal gets prepared

Fragments of the daily life of Álvaro, who left Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s to invent a new life for himself in Brazil.

Kalle, 14 years old, has lost his footing in reality when his family splits up. During an escape, he lives alone for a few days at the family's cottage where he studies nature and writes "The Tale of Lightning", a superman freed from problems.

This is a large-scale canvass depicting life in the Solovetsky monastery. What does the spiritual life of man signify? what is religious tradition and how does it relate to the modern world? how does faith influence human life? the solovetsky islands are a milestone in the spiritual geography of russia. they are marked by spiritual, historical, cultural events which have a profound bearing on the national memory. located on the outskirts of russia, the archipelago was destined to become one of the powerful symbols of the russian spirit. the movie looks at the deeper meaning of existence, faith, hope and love.

A movie by Dino B.Partesano

Views of Ornö and Huvudskär in the Stockholm archipelago. Everyday life is depicted on the islands with work in mining, fishing and a school for children

During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology.

This documentation explores anthropologically various nuances of Car Nicobar tribes within the geographical settings of the Nicobar. It provides a rare view of the lesser known life style, belief system rituals practices festivals and livelihood patterns and traces the oral traditions mythology, costumes and dialect of the Car Nicobarese. The documentary highlights the vernacular style and architecture including the indigenous beehive like thickly thatched huts with afo grass and traditional structural geometry. The film explores the Betal and Coconut production as an economic activity within an overall fame work of ecology and associated folklore.

The picture tells about the feat of Russian scientists who are sent to Svalbard as part of the Russian-Swedish expedition in order to measure the actual size and shape of the globe.

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

The summer of 2004, three teens are involved in a boat accident and an unknown girl ends up dead. Ten years later, the same group plus some others, travel to their summer cabin where the dark deeds of their past starts haunting them. Dangerous water skiis and a crazy person attacks them, and nobody knows why.

Athens 2014. Between bereaved desires and lost hopes, a film diary bangs against the walls of the city. The daily life of a country in crisis, the inertia of revolution, the individual issues that confront the political, questions of survival that confront ideals. Can we still ask the simplest questions?

Pinku from 1972.

This is the first Greek documentary about disposable plastics, the pollution they cause in Greek seas and the efforts for their gradual abolition.

The first film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series. This is a video that shows images of places with explanations of ghost zones such as Maruyama-cho, which is called the birthplace of the famous candy store ghost, and the Chichibu sacred site Eifukuji Temple, which is said to be a zone of fear and haunted by ghosts.

Nine short films about love.