For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane’s strange sudden drowning at Beirut’s rocky shore sparks a mob procession…
A young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
Grady Lee Jr. is a struggling reclusive farmer who's known to the local residents as a savant. One morning, he enters his father’s office, a place he rarely goes, and discovers his late father’s secret Vietnam War era journal. It contains in depth research for a revolutionary machine,…
During his first visit to couples therapy, a listless Los Angeles writer (Noah Segan) discovers that he’s actually in an open marriage — or at least his wife is. The revelation sets off a series of events that upends his personal and professional life and forces him to reconsider everything…
Jason, a talented actor (who recently quit acting), runs from his girlfriend. Debauchery ensues and Jason's best friend decides to make a documentary about him. Before long the camera captures truths that Jason would prefer to keep hidden.
MARIA MUSS PACKEN ist ein Film über ein altes polnisches Ehepaar und ihren Kampf gegen den drohenden Verlust ihrer Wohnung. Ein Film über Gerechtigkeit und die Bewältigung von Schicksalsschlägen – mit positiver Lebenseinstellung. Eine Parabel über das Altwerden und Jungbleiben. Auf…
An introduction to the complex author of Invisible Man including the first-ever dramatized scenes from that book.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission could not heal all the wounds left behind by the apartheid era. Thandeka, a journalist, is still traumatized by the murder of a schoolgirl, which she witnessed years before. She can find no peace before tracking down the perpetrators and finding the body of the…
This story of a village family caught up in the transformation of an agrarian, subsistence economy into an industrialized commodity economy explores the impact of the change from an oral tradition to a mass media based society where information is pre-packaged and sold. [In Moré with English…
A cross-section of gender-bending pioneers describe in their own words their lives as homosexual Africans in Abijan. [In French with English subtitles]
Across Africa, a belief in witchcraft continues to terrorize women: the denunciation, brutal beating, the banishment to an unknown village without family or friends. Witches in Exile is the first film to tell their story and the story of the human rights struggle to find a solution to a practice deeply…
The story of eight women in America's heartland--Willmar, Minnesota--who were driven by sex discrimination at work to find themselves unexpectedly at the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, they began the longest…
