In Bucchigram, under Phulbari in Dinajpur, Santal farmers speak of the land as blood-bound – they will not leave it. Shot during the 2006–07 Phulbari coal movement, the film documents their resistance to open-cast mining and the threat to their agrarian way of life. Children sing “Amar Sonar Bangla” (My Golden Bengal, I love you) in school, even as the soil beneath them is marked for extraction. In Bangladesh, belonging becomes both anthem and barricade.
In Bucchigram, under Phulbari in Dinajpur, Santal farmers speak of the land as blood-bound – they will not leave it. Shot during the 2006–07 Phulbari coal movement, the film documents their resistance to open-cast mining and the threat to their agrarian way of life. Children sing “Amar Sonar Bangla” (My Golden Bengal, I love you) in school, even as the soil beneath them is marked for extraction. In Bangladesh, belonging becomes both anthem and barricade.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.