Adele's Wish is the controversial story behind the world's most valuable painting, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt. The film recounts the struggle of 92 year old Los Angeles resident Maria Altmann, who sued Austria to recover five Klimt paintings stolen from her family in…
Teijun Ogawa, a female priest from the Shingon Buddhist Sect--a rarity in Japan--talks about her past, but refuses to speak about her experiences as a woman. She dies before the filming was complete. A homecoming visit (the husband of the filmmaker couple is from the area and had grown up listening to…
Sometimes the best way to let go of a troubled past is to literally walk as far away from it as possible. Hard Way Home is an intimate journey of the filmmaker as she struggles physically and emotionally to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Filled with a cast of misfit hikers, wandering…
On September 11, 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald became famous for the worst of all possible reasons; 658 of their employees were missing in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Though Cantor suffered more casualties than any other organization, their story was soon pushed aside as the media ambushed…
Both a visual feast and a didactic tool; from the wheat fields to the mill, from the bakery to the kitchen table, Bread is a dynamic and mouth-watering documentary. Comparing homemade bread to its industrial counterpart, this hand-cut film will surely stir your appetite. The film’s powerful…
As the referendum on Scottish independence approaches, director Justin Webster spent six months filming campaigners on both sides of the debate. ’Homage to Scotland’ is a profound and human portrait of a political process, following three main characters, Jenny Lindsay, a socially-committed…
The film revolves around the life and mind of musician José González. Using congenial methods; video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, directors Mikel Cee Karlsson and Fredrik Egerstrand give form to something as elusive as the creative process…
Blue and white at 1,000 frames a second, this feel-good doco captures the emotion and adrenaline of the real-time two seconds in the air that these extreme athletes seek. We meet the international competitors at the One Hit Wonder and Mile High ski and snowboard aerial comps here in Australia. Russ…
Gemini Award for best social-political documentary: “Rosie Dransfeld’s documentary film BROKE gives us a glimpse into the often surprising hardships and desperation of society’s marginalized. Revolving around the life of inner-city pawnbroker David Woolfson, a grouchy old Jewish immigrant…
“You know you’ve screwed up in live when you can rate every prison in Canada on a five star basis.” As with her Gemini-winning documentary Broke, the Director is masterful in casting real-life characters and making no apology for them. The protagonist of Antisocial Limited is markedly…
Few know the real story of Katy's bumpy ride to pop super stardom and how success nearly passed her by. This inspiring biography goes beneath the candy coating of the Perry phenomenon to reveal a fantastic voyage of true perseverance, self belief and talent which led her to become one of the one…
They used to leave the courtyard, all duded up in their uniforms, black hats and white shirts, with their instruments over the shoulder or under the arm. Proudly (since we lived in the same courtyard) we used to go with them up to the main square of the village, where the concert of the “award-winning…
