1996 observational Documentary. 8 months spent at the Templeton Centre, home to 480 intellectually disabled residents live in timeless seclusion on the Canterbury Plains. "Smyth’s tenderness has a surprisingly confrontational effect." Bill Gosden, NZ Film Festival, Eighty years…
Chasing Steve is a short documentary about a group of passionate night sky photographers from Alberta, Canada who have stumbled on a celestial phenomenon not formerly studied by scientists and have captured the global scientific community’s attention. They humorously named this band of light “Steve”…
Gonzalo is a farmer who lives with his family in a village in Ribera del Duero in northern Castile in central Spain. The ancient, wise tradition of producing the food they eat, from the slaughter of a pig to their own wine, has worked very well for them at this time of crisis in Spain. The village is…
Shot in Konya and Istanbul, Turkey, Love and Unity is a window to the effect of Rumi's poetry in lives of people from diverse cultures and religions via interviews, Sufi rituals, and music. For many of us, living in today's world of misunderstanding and divisions Rumi unifies through his poetry…
Iran, Through Foreign Eyes captures the opening of a new cultural and political era of Iran in the 90s through intimate interviews with women from Africa, Europe, and the United States. It is an intro to these women's personal stories giving a truthful insight to Iran and Iranians with an objective…
A poetic exposure to life, death, and hope after the devastating BAM earthquake. On Dec. 26th 2003, the city of Bam was shaken by a large magnitude earthquake where thousands of people lost their lives and many displaced forever. Bam, Whisper of the Wind begins in Nowruz, the Iranian New Year. Mahshid,…
Bababaghi, or the "Garden of Father", is a leper colony in the Northwest of Iran where to this day lepers and their families live in seclusion. A play recited by their children depicts the unseen life of lepers and their agony. The film tries to break the stigma and fear of the audience about…
Marta suffered years ago the brutal assault of her ex-husband and was about to die. Now her attacker has been released from prison and is sure he will try again. In her home where she hides she shows us her day to day struggle to overcome the trauma and fear. Harald, psychotherapist's consulting…
Marta sufrió hace años la brutal agresión de su exmarido y estuvo apunto de morir. Ahora su agresor ha salido de prisión y está segura que lo va a volver a intentar. En su casa donde se oculta nos muestra su lucha día a día por superar el trauma y el…
"A Force for Nature: Lucy Braun" explores the life and legacies of E. Lucy Braun (1889 – 1971), one of the foremost botanists and ecologists in American history. The documentary features interviews with scholars, rare archival photographs, beautiful videography, historical reenactments…
This powerful investigation into Shia clerics in some of Iraq's holiest shrines uncovers a network of exploitation of young women and girls, trapped into prostitution and pimped out by a religious elite. For the first time the clerics' secret sex trade has been captured on camera. Undercover…
The first full-length biography of one of the world’s most popular artists. Gauguin is best known for his gorgeous paintings of Tahiti. But has the fame of Gauguin’s Tahiti pictures blinded us to the bigger truth about his achievements? Waldemar Januszczak believes so, and his epic biography…
