Joris Ivens Movies

A short documentary about the Uyghur minority of western China.

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people...

Documentary filmed during the shooting of “À Valparaiso” which shows the children’s reactions to the performance of a circus...

A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

A César award winning documentary about a high school in Beijing where a student throws a ball in the direction of the teacher who had just...

A film by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken.

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England,...

Documentary about the Kazakh minority in western China in the last years of the Cultural Revolution.

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half...

At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from...

About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying...

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days...

The Hefbrug may not be a remarkably beautiful bridge, but through a mix of close-ups, long shots, bird’s eye views and low angles, Joris Ivens...