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…
Alain Johannes is a musician born in Chile and part of one of the most influential generations in rock music. This poignant story, narrated by Chris Cornell and Josh Homme amongst others, was tragically overshadowed by the death of Natasha Shneider, his wife and musical partner in the band Eleven. The…
This film by Mark Vadik tells the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience and vision. From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Steve (Terrel Ransom Jr.) is mentally and physically tortured by Betty…
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…
A set of two short films exploring the nature of same-sex love in Britain's South Asian communities. Chariot Riders Ashok grew up in an Indian family, but he doesn't like anything Indian. Not Indian food, not Indian clothes, and especially not Indian films. Instead, he'd prefer…
After being diagnosed with serious health issues, ex-cop Rose Jones (Cybill Shepherd), goes on a road trip in a wheelchair to search for her estranged son. Along the way, she falls in love with Max (James Brolin), a handsome old cowboy, who has come to a crossroads of his own. Also starring, Pam Grier…
