Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more.
English subtitles for this video are available by clicking the CC button at the bottom right of the video player.
Before store-bought produce reaches your table, it’s very likely gone on a long journey to get there. Many fruits and vegetables are washed in chlorine, stored for months, or coated in wax to ensure that they look ‘fresh’ while they sit on the grocery-store shelf. It may be hard for the average shopper to tell the difference between imported and local produce, but, to a farmers-market vendor, the difference is crystal clear. In this colourful documentary from 2006, the Croatian filmmaker Ana Hušman captures a full day of selling at Dolac market in Zagreb, Croatia. Hušman grabs fragments of conversations between vendors and customers, layering them over timelapse footage. As they sell the importance of local food, we see their piles of produce stack up and pare down. The viewer is also invited into the kitchen and shown, through stop-motion animation, traditional methods of preserving pears, blackberries and garlic.
Director: Ana Hušman
video
Archaeology
How researchers finally solved the puzzle of the oldest known map of the world
18 minutes
video
Art
A prisoner in Guantánamo finds some escape in building intricate model ships
6 minutes
video
Meaning and the good life
A Japanese religious community makes an unlikely home in the mountains of Colorado
9 minutes
video
Sex and sexuality
From secret crushes to self-acceptance – a joyful chronicle of ‘old lesbian’ stories
29 minutes
video
Making
Forging a cello from pieces of wood demands its own form of virtuosity
27 minutes
video
Education
Scenes from a school year paint a refreshingly nuanced portrait of rural America
25 minutes
video
Physics
The rhythms of a star system inspire a pianist’s transfixing performance
5 minutes
video
Art
Watch as Japan’s surplus trees are transformed into forest-tinted crayons
4 minutes
video
Meaning and the good life
‘Everydayness is the enemy’ – excerpts from the existentialist novel ‘The Moviegoer’
2 minutes