Cleo fulfilled his dream: to leave the big city with his wife and fifteen children, to establish a family commune on a farm in Brazil. Exploring their family-roots leads the children to discover their surprising heritage, which undermines the existence of the communal paradise.
«I crawled out of the fold with a crease across my head that never goes...» What happens when a person is born a Hasidic Jew, but knows that they don’t belong? Filmed in Montreal, New York and Israel. LEAVING THE FOLD is a documentary film, which tells the story of five young…
Leaving The Fold follows five young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on the inside. As children they grew up in a closed society where deviation from the rules of conduct is often punishable by ostracism, intimidation or worse. As young adults…
Ondřej, Denisa, and Petr, three Romani suffering from discrimination, left Czech Republic and Slovakia to enjoy a world of opportunity in Britain. This multi-layered, yet rather intimate documentary, which contains a number of scenes shot by the protagonists themselves on their mobile phones, depicts…
Lea and Mira tells the story of two elderly Polish Jewish women living in Argentina. As children, they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were imprisoned for two years. Having survived such horror was, in their own words, a miracle. The movie depicts the thoughts of these two…
***FOR A LIMITED TIME ON VIMEO*** Today, Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. Tracing the country’s history reveals how a minor regional conflict escalated into a full-blown geopolitical crisis. Lebanon - Borders of Blood brings to light how a series of catastrophic decisions can forge the destiny…
Refugee camps were severely damaged by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, leaving refugees homeless and battered. Shows how they managed to survive, and dug in the debris of their homes for posessions lost, whilst UNRWA attempted to provide food and health care. The second film shows the reconstruction…
The documentary explores the consequences for Christians of the most recent war in Lebanon, which began in September 2024. The film uses the war as a starting point to explain the challenges faced by Christian communities in the country. Through the testimonies of families, ordinary people, Christians…
Un documentaire de Cyril Bérard – 52min A Dunkerque, Florent, marin-pêcheur, est propulsé à la tête de l’entreprise familiale après le suicide de son père. Il doit choisir entre vendre le bateau et devenir le dernier d’une lignée de pêcheurs de dix générations, ou…
Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years. Both are theorists but Woods has been preoccupied with the pursuit of a visionary architecture, intentionally, not waiting or searching for commissions, in contrast to Holl whose buildings can be found in many parts of the world.…
Le beau danger is a cinematic arrangment between documentary portrait and literary text. Interwoven with the moving image and divided into one hundred and seventy black and white text screens we read the work of the Romanian author Norman Manea. It is the attempt to have image and text question each…
Wanted by all but truly known by none, hustler and actor Karl Forest was France’s first gay adult superstar—but who was he really? American filmmaker Wallace Potts ('More, More, More') sought to answer that question with this stunning docufantasy portrait. Mixing candid interviews…
