Documentary

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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 »

Synopsis:The Oscar for Glass was really the result of a film commission. I was given a commission to make an half hour film, in black and white about the glass making process. (“Over glas gesproken”, a simple, tradtitional but beautiful documentary.We came across a machine,and it was really clever, like the one with little grips that picked up a bottle and set it gently down elsewhere. Back again, another one, and that went wrong. That was funny to see, all of a sudden it was a stupid machine but for the sake of the factory I couldn’t show stupid machines. It couldn’t stay in. So I decided to make a film in colour for myself. I didn’t want any commentary in it and only jazz music played by Pim Jacobs. And that’s how it ended up.Read More »

AMG REVIEW :
This profound and disturbing Italian documentary is entirely comprised of archival film footage from London, Milan, Moscow, Vienna and Budapest of life in WWI prison camps. Some of the clips are from propaganda films from Germany and Czarist Russia. The compilers removed all original onscreen text and replaced it with title cards describing the location and the subject. The documentary is also unnarrated but for a vocal score and presents the subjects objectively. Scenes include the arrest of the prisoners, their entry into the prison camps, live within their confines and the grim fate suffered by many of the interredRead More »

The liberation, exploitation, and oppression of Iran’s women, based on clips from films from the silent-film era up until the Revolution in 1979.Read More »