Johnny believes in the future of Africa. He lives in Israel, but dreams of returning with modern fish farming techniques. His wife, Thérèse, sees little hope back home. She is determined to create the best possible future for their children, whatever the price may be. When their visas expire,…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Benedetta Argentieri Afghanistan/Syria/Iraq | 2019 | 72 minutes | Color | English/Arabic/Kurdish/Pashtun -- I AM THE REVOLUTION is an empowering portrait of three determined women in the Middle East who are…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Angelique Molina US | 2016 | 27 minutes | Color | English -- THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD intimately follows an extended Black family of View Park-Windsor Hills, California as they experience changes due to gentrification…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Assia Boundaoui US | 2018 | 87 minutes | Color | English -- In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where journalist and filmmaker Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Myriam Fougère Canada | 2017 | 60 minutes | Color -- FEMINISTA is a lively and inspiring feminist road movie that explores the largely unrecognized yet hugely vibrant pan European feminist movement. Filmmaker…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Lana Lin US | 2018 | 98 minutes | Color -- THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir…
http://www.gransole.net/gesualdo.html A visionary? A revolutionary? A madman? A sadist or a masochist? A solipsist? A victim? A weakling? A schizophrenic? Was he persecuted, cruel, melancholy, moody? We have no answer except his music, where these aspects are seamlessly juxtaposed, like overlapping…
The documentary captures the childhood (e.g., War on Drugs), adulthood (e.g., mental illness), and resilience (e.g., family life, college). Viewers are using the film to learn how to escape poverty while pursuing their dreams. For Andre Wright, the fashion industry was not welcoming of Black designers…
Dancing Joy celebrates the innate beauty in every culture and people. The music is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Choral, which introduced human voices and the poetry of Freidrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” in a symphonic masterpiece. To this, dancers of 21 cultures performed…
1. LA MADRUGÁ. La Semana Santa como nunca la habías visto antes (ESPAÑOL). 2. THE SMALL HOURS. The Holy Week like you've never seen it before (ENGLISH subtitles). 3. L'AUBE. La Semaine Sainte comme tu ne l'as jamais vue (FRANÇAIS sous-titres). ______________________ 1.…
http://www.gransole.net/bach.html Beethoven said Bach was not a stream, but an ocean. Bach’s music can be contained in a small film like an ocean can be contained in a walnut: since there is no way to contain it all, only its settling and abstraction can be gathered. The Art of the Fugue,…
On the night of March 5, 2002, a terrorist opened fire on diners in a Tel Aviv restaurant. Druze policeman Salim Barakat bravely stopped him, but was killed by the terrorist. For years, Jamal, Salim's brother, has been attending police ceremonies in commemoration of his brother. Suspecting they…
