Magnar og Oddny Kleiva har bodd hele livet på deres lille gårdsbruk i Naustdal, tilsynelatende upåvirket av rikdommen i det moderne Norge. En dag får de besøk av slektninger fra USA som inviterer dem til å se hvordan de har det der. Søsteren til bestemoren…
Son of a peasant worker, born in Saida on November 1, 1944, Rafic Hariri leaves Lebanon at the age of 18 and builds up an empire in Saudi Arabia. After being a teacher in mathematics, he works in the construction sector of the oil industry. In 1997 he is entrusted by the Royal Family to build their new…
The music of the quintessentially Czech composer Dvorák is, above all, enjoyable and is a perennial favourite in the Romantic repertoire. This series of concerts is performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Prague Philharmonic Choir, with three leading Czech conductors on the…
Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line is over two decades old, but for the past three years he hasn’t had the opportunity to do much work on it. In part two of this feature, guests attending a National Model Railroad Association convention arrive to tour the layout and Joe holds a special operating…
NB: SLOVENIAN VERSION. A vertical dance, poetry of motion on steep mountain walls that seem to have been created by Mother Nature only for Natalija Gros, one of Slovenia's and the world's top women climbers. Natalija has made her dreams come true through hard work, a will of steel and firm…
Director: Leo Erken | 2002 | documentary | portrait | 51 min For three years photographer Leo Erken filmed his colleague Eva Besnyö, 54 years his senior. Eva Besnyö, the Dutch photographer of Hungarian descent, lived the last years of her life in the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren, The Netherlands,…
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history. But the war between the secret services was one dimension of a…
The film radically transfers Peter Tchaikovsky into the present time and draws an emotional psychological portrait. Tchaikovsky’s fate, being at the mercy of a homophobic environment as a gay man, comes up for current discussion. Additionally, renowned international artists and experts reveal their…
As a young painter in New York City, George Segal was profoundly impressed by the dignity and humanity of Abstract Expressionism. At the same time, along with artist friends such as Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, he was acutely conscious of the homogenizing effects of…
BECOMING BULLETPROOF documents the making of an original Western film called, Bulletproof. Bulletproof features actors with and without disabilities who meet every year at Zeno Mountain Farm (ZMF) to write, produce, and star in original short films. Founded by two brothers and their wives, Zeno Mountain…
The movie tells the story of Jérôme Josserand one of the best snowkiters in the world on his adventure in the land of fire and ice – Iceland. The camera is following Jérôme, when he explores with his kite the magnificent landscapes of this wild island. He tries to kite…
This rental is intended for educational use and is allowed to be streamed in classrooms, workshops, and small community settings. For theatrical or large community screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. A film by Phillip Montgomery Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing…
