Set in the expansive landscape of Jordan’s distinctive national park, “Wadi Rum” documents the unlikely story of two Israeli climbers, an affable Bedouin Muslim, and a professional American climber as they work together to complete a climbing route up Wadi Rums’ largest rock formation.…
A comparison of women’s life in Niger and Norway. Film footage and photos taken in the beginning of the 1970s in the village of Maïné-Soroa, in Eastern Niger, are juxtaposed with audio-visual material from Tromsø in Northern Norway. Using a simple, didactic voice-over, the film…
The «Café Racer» movement, born in England during the 1950s, never stopped to influence a multitude of personalities, from designers to tattoo artists, mechanics, visual artists. Undoubtedly the most influential motorcycle movement of all time and the starting point of a culture…
If you want to view NO! The Rape Documentary with OPEN CAPTIONS, please visit: vimeo.com/ondemand/nodocumentarycaptions ********************************************** NO! The Rape Documentary is the 2006-released, Ford Foundation-funded, groundbreaking film about intra-racial rape, accountability,…
Jiàoliàn [Coach] is the story of 27 year-old Norman De Silva who overnight was given the head coaching job of the Chinese Basketball Association’s Foshan Long Lions. Despite being younger than most players on the team and being abroad for the first time in his life, Norman brings…
Musical wandering through Moldavanka, the neighbourhood where the old Odessa maffia songs originate from. A Jewish musician Alec Kopyt, born in Odessa and currently living in Amsterdam is searching there for musicians to play in a restaurant. Vladimir, a warm-hearted pensioner is strolling along the…
The rural roots of African American life are explored through the Black farmer's story from Reconstruction through the agricultural crisis of the '20s and '30s and, eventually, to the system of federal farm loans and subsidies on which all farmers depend today.
The migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West during and after World War II is retold through personal stories of a group of Chicagoan's born in the Mississippi Delta.
A cinema verite record of a year in a multicultural residence hall at Stanford University provides insight into the freshman year experience.
A literary biography of a seminal figure of 20th century American literature, Margaret Walker, who established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, and mentored the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
FIVE FACTORIES provides a penetrating look at the Bolivarian socio-economic project designed to challenge the dominant neo-liberal development model. [In Spanish with English Subtitles]
DJ Savarese ("Deej") is a nonspeaking young man with autism who communicates with others via text-to-voice synthesizer. In DEEJ, he tells his own story, via documentary and poetry, with director Robert Rooy. DEEJ refreshingly avoids the trap of speaking for a person with autism; instead, the…
