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The Armenian genocide is an open wound on humanity. The diaspora of the survivors crossed distant countries. One of them was Argentina. History portrays Buenos Aires and Yerevan, the Armenian capital, as cities preparing to commemorate more than 100 years of a genocide that is still hidden.
The original proposal for the installation was entitled, “Islands Dropped from a Basket.” This was taken out of a line from my poem, “Tell Them” which we were going to use originally for the video installation. Instead, I decided to write something new to respond to my fears about Trump, the resentment I have about our numerous issues with accessing health care in the US, and link it all to a legend about a giant who dropped islands from his basket. --Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
The Rope (Roshi), directed and produced by independent filmmaker Yasmine Kabir, is a 10-minute silent documentary about the children who are employed in Dhaka to make rope from jute and work from dawn to dusk twisting, tying, knotting and weaving the fiber.
A documentary sharing the stories of inspiring women from different walks of life who are overcoming their fears and making an impact in their communities.
The southwestern Iberian Peninsula is home to an extraordinary ecosystem known as the Dehesa. Few places in Europe compare in terms of the richness & diversity of nature found here. It is home to the fighting bull, the booted eagle, the black Iberian pig, the unicorn beetle and the mysterious rabilargo, a type of magpie that can be found only living here and in China!
"Before Homosexuals" is a prelude to the award-winning films, "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", and together will form a trilogy. This trilogy will improve understanding and respect, while decreasing intolerance, discrimination, and violence towards gays and lesbians worldwide through proving the hypothesis that gays and lesbians have always existed in every culture throughout history and have made some of the most beautiful and powerful contributions to human history and art.
Shot in inner Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in a landscape transformed by the monoculture agriculture of mostly transgenic soy, maize, and sugar cane, the film follows the process of transforming soy crops into biodiesel, from the moment of harvest to the workflow of one of the main biodiesel processing factories in the region. A series of notes and reflections taken by the author are overlaid on the moving images. They ask: What kind of life lies in transgenic seeds? And what does it mean to live with the enemy?
A study of gestures, light and sounds from within a house in Lisbon, during a regular spring afternoon.
There are few ceremonies in the world that are as lavish or as vibrant as Indian weddings. And for Indian-Americans, the unions are just as extravagant here in the States, with an average cost of half a million dollars. Witness the big Bollywood marriages of three couples as they attempt to balance millennia-old traditions and modern American sensibilities.
Jessica and Diana were sisters who were separated by just a few years in age. But their political ideologies couldn't have been any farther apart.
Between Bresso, Sesto San Giovanni and Milan, we immerse ourselves in the lives of Vash and Felce, who together make music, do heroin and share everything. Their reality is sometimes brutal, often comical, tragic and romantic.
The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.
The film is about how a blind man goes from wintering to the village. On the way, he remembers the most significant episodes from his life. The road to the village becomes an allegory of a person's wandering in search of a goal. The simple values of life are laid bare before us…
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their personal demons. With just 41 fluent Native speakers remaining, mostly Elders, some estimate their language could die out within ten years. The small community travels to a remote Island, where a language immersion experiment unfolds with the remaining fluent Elders. Young camper Sadie, an at-risk 13 year old learner and budding Alutiiq dancer, is inspired and gains strength through her work with the teachers. Yet PTSD and politics loom large as the elders, teachers, and students try to continue the difficult task of language revitalization over the next five years.
Every fifteen days, Antoine, five, spends the weekend at his father's house. Time is counted, limited, condensed. For them, two days to do, to do again, to learn, to understand one another and to each other is little ... The father opens his son the initiatory territory of the forest where to kill is not playing. But on the return of the hunt, the father and son are equally disarmed: Antoine refuses to learn to read, and his father knows that this unknown forest of life is even more dangerous if one loses oneself.
For two decades, a comptroller in a small Illinois town financed her successful horse-breeding business by stealing $53 million in public funds.
A film about longstanding relationships, family, and the deep consequences of falling in love. While exploring themes of love in music, poetry and art, the filmmaker reflects on his life and the journeys on which love has taken him. Now, a new journey will test him again, an intercontinental exodus to keep his family together. A real and intimate portrait about the complexity of love.
A new adventure above the Alps.
Carried by major figures like Dee Nasty, Assassin, IAM, and NTM, French rap has built a strong identity and inspired generations of fans. After its first tentative steps in the mid-1980s, rap became a phenomenon, supported by a music industry eager for fresh sensations. NTM, Soprano, Black M, MHD, Mokobé from 113, Les Sages Poètes de la Rue, Ménélik, and Dee Nasty, along with journalists such as Olivier Cachin, Mehdi Maizi, and Thomas Blondeau, recount this musical odyssey.
(LA)HORDE makes choreographic portraits of inhabitants of Bondy, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris.
Pro skier Fabian Lentsch is a wanderer, through and through. In a customized fire truck, he sets off on an expedition to explore the peaks of the Middle East. With a rotating group of wildly different skiers, they wind up on the tour of a lifetime.
September, and an Israeli couple moves into a building located above a supermarket in the Meguro district of Tokyo. The apartment window overlooks a temple adjacent to a funeral home and a busy intersection. It’s raining and hot, and the air conditioner in apartment 905 can not beat the humidity, so this couple goes down and starts walking. And so every morning for the next three months, the two of them go down the elevator of the building, out into the street, and walk in ever-widening circles, talking and watching, and sometimes he takes out a small pocket camera, directing…
'Scalia' is a 90-minute feature documentary from Mad Universe and director Chris Mortensen examining the judicial life, influence and legacy of the controversial and influential Supreme Court Justice who - in the words of his colleagues -will go down in history as one of the most important Supreme Court Justices ever because he changed not only the court but the law itself. But the public perception of the justice - and the man - conflicts dramatically depending on who you talk to.
Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.
Danny fulfilled his great ambition to play and record in his native Cincinnati's King Records studio. On this unique video, he illegally enters the derelict King building in order to commune with the spirits of the great King Records artists from the past -- and, in so doing, becomes the last musician to ever record at the original studio on Brewster Avenue in Cincinnati's Evanston neighborhood. Video ncludes tracks written by Danny and others that were inspired by his King heroes such as "Cincinnati' Fatback"
Barbara McCullough‘s newest film, Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot, is a profound meditation on the importance of the black tradition to the music, art, history, and activism of Los Angeles and beyond. Horace Tapscott was an underappreciated musical genius and community activist deeply involved in one the most exciting periods of Los Angeles jazz history. Black-listed in the 1960s and ‘70s because of his political affiliations (his “Arkestra” was the band of choice to perform at political rallies), during the Watts Rebellion of 1965, police actually shut down his performances, accusing him of inciting people to riot with his music. Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot tells his story in the manner of a griot, or story-teller, who in West African societies maintain the legacy, knowledge, and history of their group traditions in oral form.
For many centuries, the beautiful half of humanity has accumulated information about the ways to seduce men. Our charming contemporaries in a new way answer the eternal question "How to attract the attention of a man?" They answer, by the way, very frankly…
The Synchronous grid of Continental Europe provides the highest level of service security world wide. Nevertheless, experts are voicing their concerns over risks that could push the european grid over the edge. The exit from nuclear- and fossil fuel energy, rising consumption, climate change and an increasingly liberalized electricity market are, next to cyber attacks, serious threats that need to be addressed. Do we need to prepare for severe power outages and blackouts?
There’s high school football, and then there’s Texas high school football. Oddly enough though, one of the greatest teams in state history has been lost to time—and fate. “What Carter Lost” is the saga of that team, the 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys. With 21 players who were offered college scholarships and several who went on to the NFL, Carter took on the best that Texas had to offer, including the Odessa Permian team that inspired Friday Night Lights, as well as the worst: in a racially charged state-wide dispute over one player’s algebra grade and Carter’s legitimacy. Somehow, the team won the championship that year. Yet not too long after, the legacy they worked so hard for was thrown away after a group of players made a terrible decision. With personal interviews with players, coaches and family members, as well as glimpses of their lives today, “What Carter Lost” is ultimately about what Carter found.
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte's stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, tells the rising of the antisemitism and eventually a harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust.
Is it possible to live a life completely independent of social and economic constraints, wholly at one with nature? In the picturesque mountains of Val Lavizzara in Ticino, several individuals have come together to form a cooperative society and live such a life. There is a plethora of chores to be done on the farm: animals to feed, fields to plough and tree trunks to be chopped. As the year progresses, more and more issues surface dividing the younger and older residents: how much technology is acceptable? How much compromise is necessary and reasonable? Is the amount of work done in balance with the results gained? Along with a poetic gaze, director Hans Haldimann also shows the sometimes extraordinarily complicated side to a ‘simple’ self-sufficient life. This may be far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but there are just as many problems to be faced.
Yunlin, literally "the cloud forest", is named for its dense forest and cloudy landscape in past time. This wonderland relies mainly on agriculture and fishery. As the time passes, the forest gradually disappears but the beautiful cloud remains. The cloud forest looks the same in a different way.
On the federal television channel they shoot an entertainment show, New Year's ether, pop stars. Over the ranks of the crowd, the loud voice of the brigadier rushes: "Besides the fact that you came to have fun, do not forget that you are on work. Enjoy, smile. You can see absolutely everyone in the picture. " But this is not true - most of them no one will ever see. But, if you go to one of the regular participants in the extras home - you can see something that will never be shown on TV.
Body Language Decoded takes the viewer deep inside the intriguing world of non-verbal communication. As human beings, our bodies communicate our inner emotions and feelings in ways that can sometimes be easily seen by others, but at other times are barely visible. To the trained observer, more is revealed by studying the way people move than by listening to what people actually say.
How do you leave your country when you have to? How do you pack your bags? What do you miss the most? Those questions were asked to Ziad Alasmar, a young Syrian refugee, in front of projections of films from his country.
Using the example of the Dissernet social movement, we will tell you how our actions are related to our genes, and why some become crooks, while others struggle with these crooks...
7 Stories of true love and friendship between animal and human. Tatiana Schneider and her wolf pack in Germany. Sholeh and Mulan the tiger in Indonesia. The orangutans of Borneo and their babysitters of the BOS Foundation. Stefanie Stöcker and and her two horses Björn and Menor in Germany. Fadjen the corrida bull and his savior Christophe in France. The enchantment of Herbert and his groundhog friend Moritz on the highest mountain of Austria. Animals will help man to become human. There are no barriers , only ones that we have invented for ourselves and those ones that we will invent next. If we will ever survive.
Without showing any explicit battle footage, this film nevertheless manages to show the life of Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers on the Donetsk front. Images of ruin and destruction from places that only recently were the scenes of fighting are transformed into a tragicomic parable of survival in a provisional space-time. Looting is a daily occurrence, and going out in search of booty becomes a boyish adventure during which the participants explore places only recently inhabited by private individuals. And when all this is recorded by a Polish television crew headed by a canny female reporter, an existential satire is born. The war is there, but somewhere around the corner.
Pioneers of the Latvian psytrance movement from the viewpoint of a very suspicious alien.
From producer/director Mike Lastra comes the story of punk done right. Featuring live concert performances. Including lots of rare photos, interviews with many band members.
Documentary on Okinawan resistance to American and SDF base construction
Documentary that breaks down the rise of Hong Kong Splatter Cinema.
Uprize! looks at the political, social, and cultural conditions that shaped the June 1976 student uprising in South Africa, how those ideas we transformed into liberatory action, and how those actions helped shape the democratic society we live in today.
During the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, a group of low-ranking soldiers were sent to the Amazônia in order to exterminate the so-called Guerrilha do Araguaia, an armed struggle movement that was against the dictatorship. After forty years, the survivors of this mission report their combat experiences for the first time.
The fascinating inside story of Apple Corps, The Beatles' very own multimedia corporation that became one of the most colourful, outlandish and chaotic companies that ever existed.
Natasha works as a wedding photographer, her boyfriend Nikita is an aspiring artist. Natasha got pregnant, but she doesn't dare tell the guy about it. He is clearly not interested in children or family.
What if the World Trade Center attacks could have been thwarted? This is one of the theories put forward by Bill Binney, former technical director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), who resigned after 9/11. Long before Edward Snowden, he denounced the intelligence services' inadequate methods in the fight against terrorism, particularly the massive collection of data. Drowned in a continuous flow of information, analysts are unable to exploit the data quickly. In the 1990s, a program called "ThinThread," implemented by the NSA, was supposed to allow targeted searches by focusing solely on useful metadata for tracing the communications of suspicious individuals. But a few weeks before the 9/11 attack, the project was abandoned in favor of private financial interests. In the United States, the surveillance market is thus 80% owned by private companies.
This documentary follows the daily life of a family of artisans who work with soapstone, or steatite, in the mountains of Valtellina, Italy.
Some think an in vitro fertilization contest sounds crazy, but countless Americans desperate to start a family believe this social media experiment is their only hope. Vegas Baby is a profile of patients of a Las Vegas fertility clinic. Each year, the clinic hosts a YouTube-based competition called “I Believe,” which gives one lucky couple a shot at an in vitro fertilization treatment they could not otherwise afford. Hundreds of couples apply, yet there can be only one winner.
In this 2016 piece, filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (“African Film: New Forms and Aesthetics and Politics”) addreses the significance of Ousmane Sembène's debut film.