Families coming to terms with having a child with learning disabilities. Three families talk about how they come to terms with the arrival of a child with learning disabilities. The first family have grownup children and a thirteen-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome; the second an eleven-year-old…
Tibet just after the Chinese invasion Felix Greene made this documentary 15 years after the Chinese invasion, when few Westerners had entered Tibet. It examines the changes which took place between 1950, when the Chinese army invaded Tibet and imposed communism on what was then a feudal society, and…
How has the extremist group Boko Haram, which began as a small Islamic sect, managed to make Nigeria, the richest country in Africa, and all its neighbours, tremble with fear? Who are they and how did they become so powerful? Xavier Muntz spent a month in Northern Nigeria, in the heart of the red…
Cousins Jamie Mackenzie and Ben Wylson set off on an extraordinary three year adventure; without knowhow or training they attempt to ride bicycles on every continent without using airplanes... On their absurd mission, Jamie and Ben battle through landslides and over mountains; they traverse deserts and…
Over 500 years ago, driven out by the Spanish Inquisition, Ismael Diadié’s ancestors left Al-Andalus for Timbuktu. They were guardians of an ancient Islamic library, a legacy of over 12,000 scientific, poetic and religious manuscripts, which they wanted to protect at all cost. But in 2012,…
Long-métrage documentaire de Lina Maria Mannheimer. France’s most famous dominatrix, two close friends and two lovers share their innermost thoughts about love, friendship, dominance and submission – as we meet the unusual and fascinating author Catherine Robbe-Grillet and her inner…
Hollywoodism takes us through the establishment of Hollywood, the triumphs of the Golden Age of the 1920’s and 1930’s, the Second World War, and the attack on Hollywood as un-American during the HUAC hearings. Our story ends with a look at the legacy that the Moguls left behind, a legacy…
Rev. Frank Schaefer never set out to be an activist, but after officiating the same-sex wedding of his son, the United Methodist Church put him on trial, igniting a media firestorm. Schaefer’s act of parental love for his gay son thrust him to the forefront of a decades-long movement for LGBTQ…
The Sisters of Compassion have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the Whanganui River in New Zealand for 120 years. At the time of filming, only three nuns remained - their legacy on the river is coming to an end. This is a complex world of powerful dualities; Maori & Christian…
97 min, Documentary Québec, Canada, 2013 visit : f3m.ca Their name will forever be associated with the "Printemps Érable" - the mass protests led by Québec's student movement in 2012. L'ÉCOLE DE LA MONTAGE ROUGE was a group of graphic design students…
Pioneers of the Video Game Revolution… First there was Pong… well actually first there was Ralph Baer. This documentary meets the great pioneers of video games and uncovers the truth about who really came first and how the industry evolved from whizz kids in hot tubs to a business bigger…
Classification by the Régie du cinéma in Quebec: General 5 Gémeaux nominations including Best Documentary: Nature and Environment & Best Cinematography: Documentary “Wonderfully transposed to images… The Bunong’s struggle sketches out a moving reflection…
