This extraordinary mockumentary, which caused a stir among British TV viewers in the late 1970s, reveals a plan to establish colonies on the moon and Mars because Earth was doomed to become uninhabitable due to global heating.

A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.

A film fanatic who pretends to be the popular Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf is eventually caught out and ends up in court. Just like this man who lives between film and reality, Close-up straddles the border between documentary and fiction.

Palestinian filmmakers regained control over their images through revolutionary cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. This mosaic of long lost archival footage fills a gap in our collective memory.

A newsreel-style propaganda film from 1971 about the Palestinian resistance. This 'international declaration of war' combines militant voice-overs with footage of everyday life to reveal invisible power structures.

The avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra travels through time and space to lead the African American community to a utopian planet. This 1974 science fiction film, blending fiction with concert recordings, became the kick-off for Afrofuturism.

A tranquil evocation of the daily lives of Russian border guards facing the ever-present threat of an invisible enemy. Sokurov follows the soldiers on daily patrols and depicts their suffocating routine in aesthetic form.

A chronological collage of excerpts from film history accompanied by their original soundtracks, in which only a starry sky is visible. This raises an ever-expanding number of questions and, for those who are lucky, cosmic answers.

Godard’s controversial, key film of the 1968 counterculture era tracks the creation of the classic Rolling Stones song “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, intercutting extraordinary fictional scenes packed with radical political and cultural statements.

A portrait of the remarkable life of Léon Theremin (1896-1993) and his most successful invention, the theremin. Hollywood fully embraced the uncanny sound of this electronic musical instrument in the 1940s and 50s.