Island Movies

A lizard man tries to get to a treasure island while chased by a sea monster.

This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In...

A poor Sicilian family of moles has to emigrate to the United States. On their journey, they meet a fox who offers to help them.

In the 1920s several dozen political prisoners are exiled on a small island in the Black Sea awaiting sentencing. The old sea wolf and adventurer...

Released on October 20th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

For Berliners, the Baltic island of Usedom was once the most luxurious destination for excursions within striking distance of the city. This is where...

A man is trapped on an island with no food and a greedy companion.

It is a famous saying: "One can come to power with a bayonet, but not sit on it." The organization, which carried out 27 May, came to power with a...

A crab on a deserted island comes across a coconut.

As a woman washes and puts a Guernsey jumper out to dry, the symbolism of the jumper and the design of its stitches creates a sense of identity for...

Titled Colossi of Love, the documentary highlights the halcyon days of the kamaki (Greek for harpoon) suitors in the 70s and 80s when droves of women...

Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece,...

Travelogue released on June 10th, 1918. Directed & produced by Burton Holmes.

The first Croatian sound feature film. Viennese painter, bound to an oath that will endure whole month without a woman, goes to Adriatic coast to...

A Secrets of Life short.