Documentary

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Legendary 93-year old director Lana reflects on her mother Nutsa, Georgia’s trailblazing first female filmmaker, whose work spotlighted humanity, feminism, love, and anti-violence in dark times.Read More »

A musical, semi-documentary motion picture considering the making of “Shablul”, a rock album by Arik Einstein and Shalom Hanoch. The film demonstrates fragments of being, a few funny sketches and musical numbers, much affected by The Beatles’ flicks. “Shablul” reminds its viewers the taste of 60s, showing them the Israeli pop/rock scene of these jolly years.Read More »

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The evolution of life, from the drop of water where hundreds of microscopic animals live to that of the great primates. Essential behaviors (feeding and reproducing) are innate, automatic, and never show any variation. The struggle for life and interspecies aggressiveness are found in all animals, with significant differences. The ancestors of the great primates learned to anticipate the outcome of their actions and to assess the risks they needed to take in order to survive…Read More »

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Every year in May several thousand ‘Lords of Little Egypt’ meet for festivities in the Camargue. Mai Zetterling stays with the gypsies and reports on how they live their lives.Read More »

For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canada’s First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these ‘residential schools’ across the country. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land. These children endured brutality, physical hardship, mental degradation, and the complete erasure of their culture. The schools were part of a wider program of assimilation designed to integrate the native population into ‘Canadian society.’ These schools were established with the express purpose ‘To kill the Indian in the child.’ Told through their own voices, ‘We Were Children’ is the shocking true story of two such children: Glen Anaquod and Lyna Hart.Read More »

In 1995, director Steve James (of ‘Hoop Dreams’) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy to whom he had been an “Advocate Big Brother” ten years earlier.Read More »

Accompanied by a film crew, a paleobotanist searches for native plants in Normandy to recreate an ancient garden, sharing insights on their etymology and scientific properties.Read More »

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari’a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice.Read More »

Director Volker Koepp travels the Lithuanian shore on the border to the Russian enclave. Germans and Lithuanians have always lived here.Read More »