Résumé: Un centre d'hébergement d'urgence dans la banlieue sud de Paris. Une douzaine d'hommes de tout horizon, solitaires, les rebuts de la société, vivent le temps d'un hiver dans une petite cité provisoire. On les appelle "les hermites".…
On the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after decades of war, today another battle is fought: that of survival for thousands of refugees fleeing from the dictatorship. There are 5 refugee camps of the Eritreans on the Ethiopian border, and life takes place with enormous difficulties due to the…
Where do the Hui come from? Why do they enjoy, unlike their co-religionists Uyghurs, this relative freedom of worship? What relations do they have with the Muslim world and the various Chinese powers? So many questions that will lead us from meeting to meeting on the traces of this unexpected ethnic…
"Angelena: Change The World" - Part 1 of 4 Australian multi-award winning singer/songwriter. documentary filmmaker and women's rights advocate, Angelena Bonet, has created a documentary feature film tetralogy ('Angelena: Change The World', 'Angelena: Heart Of The Matter',…
Amid the bustling world of Central Oregon's wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia's Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the Khmer Rouge, come…
On July 7, 1865, Maryland widow Mary Surratt was publicly hanged by the government for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. The circumstantial case against her was strong. Booth and other conspirators had visited her boarding house near Ford's Theatre.…
The title of this excellent 1990 film by Peter Rosen comes from the fact that singer Peerce played the role of Tevye in a production of Fiddler on the Roof during the last years of his life. His life had many connections to the show. He was born in the US to recently emigrated parents from Russia. He…
How Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms helped achieve peace in the Middle East. The Apple Hill Chamber Players Middle East peace tour. Documentary shot in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. How the performance of music bringing together young people from all the countries in the Middle East can contribute…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/screening-room-jean-rouch-p381.aspx Robert Gardner color, 64 min, 1980 Over a period of five decades Jean Rouch made many films about the Songhay and Dogon of West Africa. He also made, with Edgar Morin,…
In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted a major exhibit called “Harlem On My Mind.” There was just one thing wrong: the show had no work by African-American artists. The “Harlem on My Mind” fiasco is emblematic of the barriers Black artists have faced when…
Résumé : Natale est routier depuis 30 ans et a autant d'années de syndicalisme derrière lui. Il dirige la branche des transporteurs de l'Union locale de FO de Tourcoing. Il gère les problèmes des uns et des autres, rassemble du monde pour la prochaine…
Résumé: Depuis toujours, l'homme rêve de construire un monde meilleur, d'inventer une autre manière de vivre grâce à laquelle il pourrait s'affranchir du racisme, de la religion, de la politique, de la pollution, et surtout de l'argent. Mais…
