David Borenstein

Can't Feel Nothing (2024)

A man lies in bed illuminated by the blue-white light of his mobile phone. He doom scrolls past cute pets, outraged opinion pieces and haunting images from the world's hotspots – and he feels absolutely nothing. With curiousity and humour, director David ...

The Great Electric Airplane Race (2022)

Race for the Vaccine (2021)

As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no one had ever seen before, and to do so in record time, du ...

Love Factory: The Price of Being a Social Media Star (2021)

Livestreaming your life to a devoted audience is big business. What happens when the cameras are off? ...

Decoding COVID-19 (2020)

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has upended life as we know it in a matter of mere months. But at the same time, an unprecedented global effort to understand and contain the virus—and find a treatment for the disease it causes—is underway. Join the doctors ...

The Real Thing (2018)

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter's in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world ...

Dream Empire (2016)

Yana's foreigner rental agency helps Chinese real estate developers turn ghost towns into temporary 'globalized booming cities' to lure in potential buyers. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she is forced to sell her company and reassess ...

The Hand That Feeds (2014)

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in Jan. ...

Can't Feel Nothing (2024)

A man lies in bed illuminated by the blue-white light of his mobile phone. He doom scrolls past cute pets, outraged opinion pieces and haunting images from the world's hotspots – and he feels absolutely nothing. With curiousity and humour, director David ...