THE LONGEVITY FILM investigates the complex topic of ageing and living well by documenting the longest lived, healthiest & happiest cultures from around the world.

A highly charged journey across the landscape of aging. This film travels from coast to coast exploring the unprecedented highs and the prolonged lows of growing old. From burlesque dancers in their seventies to geriatric prison wards, this film takes us to the extreme ends of longevity while asking 'What is a good old age?' This film and its companion book were created by the internationally-acclaimed team of writer Julie Winokur and photographer Ed Kashi. Over the course of seven years, they traveled across the country, collecting scores of personal histories that when taken collectively challenge the culture of aging in America..."Thoughtful and visually arresting work...I've been so impressed and moved by your deft way of representing a great diversity of experiences of aging.".Beth Dungen - Curator, Berkeley Art Museum.."Stirring...Aging in America brings to the forefront - without stereotypes or sentimentality - the realities of getting old."- San Jose Mercury News.

Angela Merkel has become a global icon and yet remains an enigma. Her absolute professionalism, her determination to protect her private life and to reduce her press statements to a minimum have made her elusive. Who really knows Angela Merkel? What kind of woman is she? And what legacy does she leave us? In this exclusive film, we go in search of the real Angela Merkel. Director Marion Van Renterghem has been following Merkel for the last decade. She has written two books and numerous articles about her and is uniquely placed to tell Merkel's story. Rather than interview experts and journalists, she speaks only to people who directly know Angela Merkel - including the last three French presidents. At the heart of this story is an enigma: how could an uncharismatic, provincial physicist, from a country that no longer exist, rise to become the world's most powerful women and maintain that position for so long? How could she become both the Iron Chancellor and Mutti to the German people? In telling Angela Merkel's extraordinary story, we tell the story of Europe: from the fall of communism to the euro, migrant and COVID crises. In the face of the world's turmoil, Angela Merkel is the only figure that truly embodies longevity of power, political stability, and the values of liberal democracy. She leaves us facing a vacuum and immense uncertainty.