Executive Producer Sean Penn presents “Witch Hunt,” a gripping indictment of the American justice system told through the lens of one small town. Voters in Bakersfield, California elected a tough on crime district attorney into office for more than 25 years. During his tenure, he convicted…
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"…
It is in gratitude that I share the magical experiences of water’s expression through form. Observing the secret life of water’s dramatic yet eloquent journey into its crystalline blossoming, has opened my heart in a profound way. A constant revelation of its divine beauty shaped by the…
NOW IN HD. Professionally scanned from a pristine 16mm print to 1920x1080 full HD. Update for FREE if you previously purchased the SD version on Vimeo. A film by Yves Gélinas TheSailingChannel is honored to offer what many consider to be the finest sailing film ever made. Jean-du-Sud is a…
Filmmaker Bio Edgie Amisial is a Haitian-American multidisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker, who uses her creative practice to unpack the issues that create an inevitable symbiosis between political and personal identities. She merges writing, film and visual art to navigate identity, intersectionality,…
This film continues MacDougall’s Doon School Series, a long-term study of an elite boys’ boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the ‘houses’ for new boys. The film concerns their attachment to the house, but,…
