Joris Ivens Movies

Between documentary and fiction, "Branding" (also know as "Breakers") stars an unemployed sailor from Katwijk, a land that sparked Ivens’...

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...

The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year...

A travel report from Cuba, a year after the fall of Batista, reflecting the euphoria of the early years of the revolution.

A student is working part-time on a canal boat in Amsterdam and a young director wants to make a film about her.

An encounter with director Joris Ivens and his most important films (“Rain,” “Borinage,” “Spanish Earth,”...