Hope, despair and devoted care are all in a day's work at this animal shelter. In the busy world of the animal shelter, the loving bond between humans and animals is strained by the endless stream of abandoned dogs, cats and rabbits. Pets are life companions - but for some, they are also a dispensable…
ENGLISH: Susan, in her early 50s, is a very attractive woman. But the half Italian, born at the beginning of the 60s in Berlin, is ill. She is bipolar and has a schizoaffective disorder. Susan tells her life. That, she says, stopped at the age of 11. Because then she was sexually abused. Despite a good…
DIRECTOR'S CUT - includes 25 minutes not shown on TV. "Mental health and homelessness need to be talked about together. Resolving homelessness cannot simply be about physical shelter: psychological issues need to be an integral part of the discussion. My intention with PICTURING HOME…
Als Frank Sinatra am 14. Mai 1998 stirbt, verabschiedet sich das 20. Jahrhundert. Er hat einer Epoche seine Stimme gegeben. Seine Lieder sind für Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt zum Soundtrack ihres Lebens geworden. Er verkörpert wie kein anderer Mensch vor oder nach ihm Amerika, das…
The man they called a young genius, master swordsmith Yoshikazu Yoshihara. Japanese swordsmith documentary. At the age of 36, Yoshikazu Yoshihara was pronounced the youngest to receive the highest level of swordsmith mastery. He was known for his blade style referred to as Kawazukochouji, which fascinated…
国会審議で取り上げられ、流行語大賞にもなった「保育園落ちた日本死ね」の問題提起から5年。 コロナ禍によるステイホーム環境が長引く中で、 いま子育て支援や医療、福祉を中心とする地方行政は、 どのように変化し、どのような課題を抱えているのでしょうか。 認定NPO法人フローレンスにて特別養子縁組の事業推進担当し、 プライベートでは多胎育児のサポートに取り組む市倉加寿代さん、 地方公務員として15年間働きながら地域団体「北区はたらくママ★ネット」を設立して 社会活動に取り組んだ経験をもとに、 現在は東京都北区区議会議員として活動するこまざき美紀さんをお迎えし、 生活環境に直接アクセスできる地域政治の場から、 諦めずに日本社会を改善していくための道筋を探ります。 ▼出演 市倉加寿代（フローレンス/多胎育児のサポートを考える会 こまざき美紀（東京都北区議会議員…
The clandestine story of IDAF – The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. How Canon John Collins of St. Paul’s Cathedral, together with his friends in London and Scandinavia, secretly underpinned the entire struggle against apartheid in South Africa. With graphic…
Duisburg: mainline and industrial tracks are covered as we look at action to the south of Duisburg. Our location covers the main rail bridge over the River Rhein at Hochfeld where a variety of freight and passenger trains are seen crossing the river, including industrial diesels, SBB Re4/4, DB 143, 152,…
The beginning of the Tower Records art department. Interviews with the original artists that created the unique Tower Records display look. California based Tower Records was THE place to purchase music around the world for decades. One of a kind promotional displays set the scene in each store and…
According to Unesco, a human language disappears every two weeks. Within a century, 50 to 90 percent of all languages will be gone. Does it matter? Linguist Florian Lionnet of Princeton University emphatically believes it does. For years, he’s been documenting Láàl, a language…
Using interviews, photos and archival footage, Hand on the Pulse is the poignant story of Joan Nestle, political and sexual “bad girl.” Hand on the Pulse traces Joan’s life; finding her community in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, celebrating the body in her writings and in her public…
Guns, Gays and God in East Texas. A documentary thriller. The film explores the tragic murder of Nicholas West, shot dead in Tyler, East Texas by a teenage gang … because he was gay. Gripping interviews on Death Row capture the twilight world in which the three killers lived as the film…
