Executive produced by news legend Dan Rather, Fail State investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling decades of policy decisions in Washington DC that have given rise to a powerful and highly-predatory for-profit college industry. With echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis,…
The behind-the-scenes story of how the original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution. With unprecedented access to Director Suzanne Mitchell, the fiercely-loyal “Godmother of modern cheerleading,” this documentary…
Versions: Original with subtitles French, English, German, Italian The last opus of a trilogy, the apogee of a time when friendship and sharing reach their paroxysm. Nuit de la Glisse propels us into a new era towards new disciplines and describes the transmission of values between two generations…
"Navajo Math Circles" follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. Using a model called math circles, the students stay late after school and assemble over the summer at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, to study mathematics. The math circles approach emphasizes…
This film’s director Hendrik Schäfer and a man who goes by the name of Bluefrog made contact on a dating site. Hendrik wants to find out more about this mysterious man who doesn’t want to reveal anything personal despite his ambitions to fully expose himself online. Bluefrog agrees to…
viva portugal was made by a group of French and West German journalists (the English version was assembled by cinema action), and traces the first year of the Portuguese revolution. Besides documenting the political changes, from the overthrow of Caetano's dictatorship to the failure of a right…
Renowned Jungian analyst, author and teacher whose groundbreaking work on feminine psychology and addiction includes her books, Addiction to Perfection, Dying into Life, and The Pregnant Virgin. Her extraordinary life chronicled through conversations with scholar and mystic, Andrew Harvey (The Tibetan…
people of ireland documents the self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Free Derry in 1969. It includes: interviews with militants, community leaders, a priest, a Stormont Minister and unemployed workers; footage of mass meetings behind the barricades, popular self-organisation, the Labour Home…
"Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine are two of the foremost architectural artists working today. Their films focus on the relationship of people and space, emphasising the presence of everyday life within some of the most iconic architectural projects of recent decades." (Barbican Centre) Presented…
LOGLINE Can a documentary save a fish species from extinction? SHORT SYNOPSIS We lost bluefin tuna forever from Bosporus and the great white shark chasing it ! we lost marlin, we lost Mediterranean monk seal, we lost Bosphorus mackerel... Is BLUEFISH stands the next marine species on line of extinction…
SYNOPSIS Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though the people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed. The…
SYNOPSIS Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Mühl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In With(out) Family the director Paul-Julien…
