Loved and cherished, feared and hated, cute and cuddly, majestic, monstrous and ferocious. No other animal on earth has captured our hearts and our imagination like the Brown Bear. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. Coastal Brown…
In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing…
A festival favourite with critics and audiences in 2013, A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous portrait of three generations in exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive…
Accidents, close calls, near misses and crashes so brutal there can be no survivors. But there are! What’s going on? Is it random? Fate? God? Luck? These events really are… Miraculous! And you’ll only see them here, on Lucky Bastards!
Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present, the story of filmmaker Howard Brookner whose work captured the cultural revolution of late 70’s and early 80’s downtown NYC – and his nephew’s personal journey 25 years later to discover his uncle’s films and the…
AT/GER 2016, 98 min, Stefan Ludwig They exist at the edges of society and are considered troublesome and backwards. However, János Orsòs, a Romani from eastern Hungary, has taken a new approach. János founded a school inspired by the Buddhism of B.R. Ambedkar, who freed millions…
THIS RENTAL IS INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE AND IS ALLOWED TO BE STREAMED IN CLASSROOMS AND WORKSHOPS ONLY. For theatrical, community, or campus screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary The Souls of Black Girls explores…
Big Love is a film about Swedish Gunnar Holma 35, a charismatic person with a big heart. Gunnar has always been attracted to larger women. Every year there is a BBW (Big Beautiful Women) convention in Las Vegas. We follow Gunnar across the atlantic to Las Vegas in search of true love. Will he…
The story of a terrorist monitoring system that was discontinued just weeks before 9/11. Featuring a former NSA analyst who was a leading expert on metadata responsible for the world's most sophisticated globall monitoring effort.
En la noche del 26 al 27 de septiembre de 2014, un grupo de estudiantes de la Escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa fue perseguido, balaceado y dispersado en diversos escenarios de la ciudad de Iguala, Guerrero, y los alrededores. Seis personas murieron, una quedó en estado vegetativo y 43 están…
ein Film von Ana Grillo, Christina Magdalinou, Silvia Torneden DE 2014, 85 Minuten, FSK 6, deutsch-englische OF, deutsche UT For 25 years now, the renowned Hamburg International Queer Film Festival has been on the forefront of exhibiting and promoting the diversity of queer cinema to an ever-growing…
As longtime professional climbers who eat, sleep and live the sport, Cedar Wright and Matt Segal are used to being competent, comfortable and at the top of their game. When they take up paragliding, however, things are different. Tree landings and sketchy moments as bumbling, gung-ho beginners become…
