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After five tours and serving ten years as a Marine Sniper, Sgt. Douglas Brown, takes us on an emotional eight month journey across America, engaging with fellow servicemen who were once a part of a highly trained military team with a specific skill set now rendered useless. The story unfolds when Douglas and an Afghan Interpreter, who served with him in Afghanistan, reveal the story that bonded them for life. Recalling those horrific memories trigger Doug's existing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) that continues to corrode his personal relationships, and has led to his erratic, inappropriate and self damaging behavior.

A snapshot of the daily lives of three women entrenched in the continuing conflict that engulfs Palestine.

Thirty-year-old Tanya really wants to get married. However, her fiance is not as perfect as it might seem at first glance. Therefore, the girl decides to find a replacement.

Documentary film about the rise, fall and rise again of the Berlin breakdancers "Flying Steps".

Nicolae is a 9-year-old boy. He is a pupil at the Russian language school in Soroca. He really likes to go to school. He looks forward to going to the "last day of school" to find out if he is going to be accepted into the third grade. He knows all the streets of Soroca, because, together with his brother, Gena, they wander all day. Soroca - is a small town in the north of the Republic of Moldova. It is known thanks to the medieval fortress, the oldest on the territory of the country, but also thanks to the Roma community, that lives compactly in a neighborhood on a hill from Soroca. The Roma are eccentric here. They built big houses, some of them being replicas of known buildings in the world. Hence the name of the movie The Bolshoi Theatre, referring to the well-known building in Moscow, but also to the theatrical nature of the Roma people.

Humans, Animals, Earth, Wind and Water, converge with the same energy of a filmic fire, which crosses and relates them. By the appropriation of educational images of 16 mm films, which in the past were used to educate us, Animal Within evokes a poetic collision between images of the human and the animal.

A documentary about bourgeois ideology and its means of domination. The film shows a historical view on the rise of the right-wing from the 1930s onwards, and follows it up to modern-day Brazil.

A documentary in memory of Judge Rodrigo Bastidas, who was vilely murdered in the criminal investigation courts by violent state agents 35 years ago. A crime against humanity still unresolved.

Vika and Karina are building a charity clinic in Guatemala. Tropical diseases, drug smuggling, search for sponsorship and true love. Two crazy adventurers change the world for the better and just enjoy the life.

A short Portuguese film of approximately 5 minutes.

A montage of 1990s-era archival video and recent footage, exhuming cultural debates from history’s grave to re-animate a once-promised future, still to arrive.

Following the global financial crisis in 2008, Melbourne-based Rob Henry seeks out a new lifestyle and arrives to the tropical islands of Mentawai, Indonesia, where he finds himself immersed between two contrasting local villages.

A documentary following ten politicans' campaigning efforts during the 2017 German national parliament election.

Three restaurant families put it all on the table to find harmony in one of the most cut throat industries of all time. The long hours and late nights lend a delicate balance between family and business...all in efforts to find time for a Family Meal.

After losing his mother and four siblings in a bombing that left him injured, Syrian teenager Ibraheem Sarhan makes a new life for himself in Winnipeg, Canada despite the heartbreak of leaving his home behind. Narrated through Ibraheem's diary entries, we follow Ibraheem through his first week of high school in Winnipeg. It's a story about loss, resilience, and one young man's identity as he adapts to a new country while his home is at war.

A 35-year-old shepherd wandered over the border from the Turkish district of Kars into Armenia to retrieve his animal. In this haunting, desolate landscape, the borders are invisible, but fatal.

Journey through the water and the history of the Kukama, who inhabit the Amazon in Peru

Pescadores de Palavras" directs the focus to names that go back to marginal literature, from the "Mimeographer Generation" in the 1970s and 1980s, and to the resilience of current literature. how Grupo Picaré revolutionized the region's literature, how Revista Mirante remains the country's oldest independent literature magazine, and how the artisanal publisher Costas Felinas persists in its activist ideal of remaining faithful to the non-commercial and non-commercial ideal. mercantilist.

Based on a field research to interact the group with the residents, Anchieta gathers life stories of the occupants of the building where a psychiatric hospital of the same name operated in Santos.

Documentary about Diana Island in Santos.

Although small in population, the music scene in the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, is rich in talent across a wide range of genres including rock, punk, hip-hop, metal, country, pop, jazz, classical, and everything in-between. The Capital Project focuses on the tightly knit community and their relationship to The Capital, a music venue and bar that has served as a lynchpin of the live music scene for over a decade.

Mind over matter, courage over fear, faith over disbelief. In the Abilities Recovery Center physical therapy studio in Culver City, people of all ages dealing with spinal paralysis are defying their diagnoses and experiencing near-miraculous recoveries. Therapist Jeff Lefkowitz refuses to take no for an answer as he brings each patient along a courageous journey toward healing.

80% of the world's population can no longer see the Milky Way. What do we lose when we lose sight of the stars? Excessive and improper lighting robs us of our night skies, disrupts our sleep patterns and endangers nocturnal habitats. The current advances in LED technology have enabled several cities to safely light their streets and save energy without disrupting the nighttime environment. Saving the Dark explores the need to preserve dark night skies and what we can do to combat light pollution. Created in association with the International Dark-Sky Association.

In 2011, the conflict of public education broke out in Chile. Protests did not revolved around violence, but rather the renewal of the social struggle from culture and altruism. Paintings instead of banners, disguises instead of hoods.This is the story of those who dared to paint, film, dance and act, redefining citizen protest forever.

After being evacuated as a child in 1992, BC-based filmmaker Bojan Bodružić returned to Sarajevo in 2000 and began to film his grandparents; over the course of 15 years, he recorded their incredible life stories and their experiences during the Bosnian War. The result is at once a moving family portrait and an account of a country forever changed. The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs is an invaluable collection of memories—both personal and historical—and a deeply affecting.

In the summer of 2017, two Chinese filmmakers start their journey with four mobile phones, and they go through 16 countries from France to Damascus. As far as their concerned, they are trying to present the current situation of refugees’ life in the “post-refugee era” in Syria. It gives rise to reflection to the right and wrong in the “refugee crisis.” It is also lead people to find out a different Syria and a different Muslim World.

'Communion Los Angeles' traces California’s oldest freeway, the 110, as it courses from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, defining and dividing the communities it is designed to serve. Viewing the 35 miles of blacktop as both infrastructure and public architecture, this equinoctial journey highlights dichotomies of mobility, technology and urban space.

The Tigerbelles, coached by the legendary, irascible Mr. Temple, were a group of African American female track athletes who broke the color barrier of the Olympics in the 1950s and '60s, winning 16 gold medals, over 30 national titles, and 100 percent of them received college degrees, all during the Jim Crow era.

A group of shamans and a band tour Bolivia, Chile and Peru performing Shamanic Ceremonies and Concerts. Filming with Government permissions in sacred locations concerts and never before filmed shamanic ceremonies, our group interacts with the local people with intentions of healing and energizing key areas along Ley lines.

Tinne Zenner's 'Translations' (in Greenlandic: 'Nutsigassat') reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. A critical and graceful 16mm film in which the vistas of Greenland create a space for free thinking.

Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.

A master luthier reflects on his life's work and legacy.

A true story of Wilhelm Reich, a pioneer prosecuted and imprisoned. His books and publications were banned and burned in America, where he dies in a federal penitentiary. Now 60 years after his death and 10 years after the unsealing of his archives, a new documentary presents the facts. Four days before the outbreak of World War ll, Dr. Wilhelm Reich - a prominent Austrian psychiatrist, physician and outspoken anti-Nazi - arrived in New York with a teaching visa from the New School for Social Research's renowned 'University in Exile.' After almost continuous investigation, starting in 1939, involving four U.S. government agencies, Reich's published books and research journals were banned and burned by a Federal Court order in the 1950's. This film uses primary materials, scholarly interviews and eye-witness accounts to present a factually-accurate narrative of Reich's life and work, and to explore the events that led up to this heinous example of censorship in America.

A nearly wordless collage of moving images and sound. It is a diary film and an album of memories spanning 4 years.

Set against the thriving dance music scene in the city of Adelaide, Decks and the City explores the passion for electronic music within the night time cityscape and the obstacles that DJ's, producers, venue owners and patrons face from lawmakers and a conservative society.

Two days before the June 12 summit with President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un, National Geographic will premiere Inside North Korea: Race to Peace, a new documentary from writer/producer Robert Zakin that taps archival footage and new interviews to chronicle the diplomatic milestone.

“Área 013” is a documentary aimed at investigating stories and legends related to ufology that is very present in the municipality of Peruíbe. The documentary presents a sampling from various points of view, and does not seek to prove or deny the veracity of any information, with the main objective of treating the theme in an experimental way.

Kerry, Kathleen and Robert Kennedy, Jr. share personal recollections of their father on the 50th anniversary of his death. Robert F. Kennedy's battles over civil rights, poverty, and the war in Vietnam are explored, as are his personal struggles after the death of his brother.

For three years we follow the two twin girls Molly and Smilla in a crucial time of their lives from age 11 to 15. The girls are diagnosed with autism and are not like the other children. They must learn to live with the awareness of being different. The film follows them in crucial years where they grow from belonging to the same safe bubble to stepping out into the world as two confident, strong girls. The film ends when Molly takes a big leap and start at a continuation school.

Everyone has childhood memories of a zoo. The 1950s were a paradise with monkeys riding bicycles and lions jumping through rings of fire. Animals of today are placed in an artificial, ‘virtual’ natural environment, and are subjugated as ‘humanised’ animals. They lose their natural habits and become physically and mentally warped. As we see elephants dancing, does this signify happiness, anxiety, or a bottomless pit?

Driven by the problem of marine plastic pollution, two designers collect nets from the bottom of the sea and, with 3D-printing, transform them into symbols of marine beauty.

Follows the 'Anderson' family as they traverse throughout their day.

The video, “Blissville …An Investigation”, is about a remote corner of Queens, NY within the shadows of midtown Manhattan and yet isolated from the rest of the city. Embracing low budget Hi 8 video to conduct informal street interviews and investigate the origin of the name of Blissville, and the character(s) of the town, the video takes the experimental form of a docu/poem. Not in the traditional sense with words but as a lyrical visual odyssey. The video is not so much a mourning of things past, nor a nostalgia, although both these elements are present. It is more about the quest for, and resilience of community.

Beginning with the commercial production of color in makeup factories, printing plants and fake flower production facilities and then opening up from there to other ideas about truth, perception and standards for women.

A feature length documentary about stripmine crooner, Rev. Fred Lane, and the Raudelunas arts collective of Alabama in the Seventies.

A movie about the New Belgrade project Blok 70.

Aarron Lambert is a controversial man that provokes the system and inspires the public. A cinematic documentary following the struggles and successes of a voice that must be heard from childhood through to adult life.

Double Me is a film about the tragic misunderstandings between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and the ramifications of those traumatic experiences. Based on manuscripts, photographs and films belonging to the Colombian ethnographer Gregorio Hernández de Alba, Rugeles pieces together existing and new footage in this documentary punctuated with fiction and stories. From FICCI

In the Baixada Fluminense, independent cultural groups started a film movement that takes the cinema to the viewer. For more than ten years, these cineclubes have played a fundamental role in the social construction of peripheral regions and open the debate for the transformation of everyday life in these cities. The documentary shows the performance of six of Baixada Fluminense's main cineclubes: Cineclube Mate with Angu, from Caxias; Cineclube Getúlio hole, from Nova Iguaçu; Cineclube Donana, by Belford Roxo; Cineclube Cinema of Guerrilla, of São João de Meriti; Cinux Xuxu with Xis, from Austin; and Feminist Faction Cineclube, from Caxias. The movie clubs take the movies to the squares, bars, schools and wherever else you have room to display. To promote cineclubes is to preserve the possibility of meeting, identifying with others and the pleasure of sharing and motivating people.