The United States: one nation – divided. Filmmaker Susanne Brandstaetter explores polarization in the U.S., which shows striking parallels to Europe. An American from L.A. who’s been living all her adult life in Europe, she decides to get close to some non-typical Trump voters in the swing…
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. For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been…
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs on their…
Woody Guthrie, l’inventeur du protest song, engagé jusqu’au cou pour les minorités opprimées et dans les luttes syndicales, avait gravé sur sa guitare: “cette machine tue des fascistes”. Après Tina Modotti et Malcom X, Francesco Bearzatti s’attaque…
The awe that mountainous landscapes evoke is universal, yet even in a place that is 75% mountains, few people venture into true wilderness. Martina Halik and her 60-year-old mother Tania attempt a bitterly cold 2300km ski trek from Vancouver to Alaska through the treacherous Coast Mountains; a journey…
"The awe that mountainous landscapes evoke is universal, yet most of us seldom venture into true wilderness. Living amongst us is a special breed of people — undefined by age, gender, profession or background — but for them the draw of the mountains is so strong that their lives must…
Grieving the suicide of a friend, Frances Henderson heads to Las Vegas, the suicide capitol of the nation, to seek answers. There she learns about the shocking death of a local teenager who leaped from the roof of the city’s tallest casino. While investigating the suicide epidemic further, she…
«In May 2005, Leonore gave me two books by Fichte with literary adaptations of dialogues from the early days of their love affair. She said they had everything she wanted to say. I breathed life into the dialogues between Irma & Jäcki and combined them with Mau’s photographs. Still…
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Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. Can we reverse this visual pollution? This Space Available looks at diverse activists from the worlds of advertising, street art, and politics. Influenced by the writing of Marc Gobé (Emotional Branding), his daughter…
Karachi’s feminists come together against all odds to organise a national woman's march. Coming up against Pakistan’s radical religious Right, and negotiating a surveillance-heavy, paranoia-inducing and often physically violent space in the hopes of a revolution, the protagonists struggle…
THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE is about China's massive hunger for natural resources and how during the last decade it has been aggressively operating to obtain access to these resources in Ecuador. The country is now stuck with the most Chinese debts in Latin America. Meet Paúl Jarrín…
