Salem, Massachusetts, exists as both a city and a metaphor. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 sent 20 people to their deaths and the phrase “witch hunt” into the American lexicon. In the early 1990s the city grappled with how to commemorate the 300th anniversary of this event while simultaneously…
Witchcraft Blue is a portrait of people who perform burlesque, as well as their relationships to the craft, and its relationship to other genres, such as commercial stripping. It's about people of all genders (but especially women), usually taking their clothes off onstage (but not always), and…
* In 1657, Goody Garlick was put on trial for witchcraft in the Hamptons. * In 1665, Mary and Ralph Hall were tried for witchcraft in the brand-new city of New York. * In 1670, Westchester resident Katherine Harrison was branded a witch and sent up for trial in Connecticut. This presentation…
Learn how the scary things you see in the movies actually relate to real life! Explore the mystical origins of witchcraft, voodoo and black magic. See magical spells demonstrated before your very eyes - spells for bringing a loved one under your power, cursing an enemy or conjuring a demon! Can supernatural…
Across Africa, a belief in witchcraft continues to terrorize women: the denunciation, brutal beating, the banishment to an unknown village without family or friends. Witches in Exile is the first film to tell their story and the story of the human rights struggle to find a solution to a practice deeply…
A musical tale about the new Slow-Life worldwide trend. Awarded Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Documentary and Best Director. Taking a step back from today’s chaotic, hectic life to embrace an everyday simpler life, enjoying every step of it with all our senses. Globe-trotting through the…
Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a larger-than-life character who dominated French letters from the turn of the 20th century to his death in 1951. Directed by Marc Allégret, with…
WITH A RIGHT TO KILL is a film examining an important incident in Danish history: the liquidations of 400 persons by the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation. After a long silence and for the first time on film, a number of people who participated in the liquidations discuss their…
With a Stroke of the Chaveta is a poetic documentary short (28 minutes) that leaves us wondering where to draw the line between "worker" and "intellectual." From the middle of the 1800s to the early 1900s lectores, or readers, were an integral part of the world of cigar workers…
Sadi is from a very different world. At 17 she fled female genital mutilation in Gambia. Six months later, having gone 'the Backway', surviving the Sahara, civil war in Libya and the boat journey, she ends up in Sicily together with many other refugees, most of them men. We visit Sadi often…
With God On Our Side takes a hard look at the theology and politics of Christian Zionism, which teaches that because the Jews are God’s chosen people, Israeli government policies should not be questioned, even when these policies are unjust. Critics of Christian Zionism argue that this flawed ideology…
WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE is a six-hour documentary series treating one of the most important political and cultural stories in contemporary America: the rising power of the Religious Right. This first in-depth, non-ideological series traces its roots from the anxious "Christian anti-Communism"…
