Welcome to the Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became "inducted" without ever quite realizing what they'd signed up for. Was it a cult? Was it an elaborate game? Told from the participants’ perspectives, the film looks over the precipice…
Through interviews and footage of lessons and rehearsals, "Libero Canto – Voice is Breath" draws the viewer into the musical and human evolution of Edvin Szamosi's students both in New York and in Vienna. The care, love, and attention to detail with which the film is made reflect…
Το καλοκαίρι του 1953, ένας απ’τους μεγαλύτερους σεισμούς…
Untertitel: Französisch ------------------------------ Brigitte, Fritz, Jonas und Roger wagen es - den grossen Schritt in die Selbständigkeit. Der Film begleitet sie während der ersten beiden Jahre auf ihrem Weg, einer Berg- und Talfahrt mit unsicherem Ausgang. Ein temperamentvolles,…
Untertitel: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Der Film thematisiert behutsam die Wiederannäherung zwischen dem Filmemacher und seinem älteren Bruder Dominic, nachdem dieser den Entzug von seiner schweren…
Una vita passata all’ombra del potere, a studiare e teorizzare il potere: Machiavelli “scienziato della politica” è sicuramente una delle figure del Rinascimento italiano più note al mondo. Eppure accanto al Machiavelli attento testimone dei grandi avvenimenti del suo…
In 1953, one of the world's most powerful earthquakes destroyed the Greek islands of the Ionian Sea. Two amateur cameramen happened to be in Kefalonia and recorded what they saw on film. Earthquake is a documentary based on this footage- shot before and after the disaster. We watch the island’s…
We made Fruit of the Vine over several months and several road trips in 1999. It is a super 8 film about skating in empty swimming pools. It was originally released on VHS in 2000 and then re rereleased on DVD in 2002. There are more than 75 pools and over 50 skaters featured including: Steve "Salba"…
Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities that convulsed the world, more than 120 countries united to form the International Criminal Court (ICC)—the first permanent, independent (treaty based) international criminal court created to prosecute perpetrators (no matter how…
This new, updated version of the 1983 classic on war and social revolution in Guatemala is a vigorous and persuasive documentary. It describes the struggle of the largely Indian peasantry against a legacy of state and foreign oppression. Centered on the experiences of Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú,…
How can an open society balance demands for security with democracy? State of Fear dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a war against terror, a war potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain. Based…
RESUMEN: Este es el relato del viaje de una mujer para reencontrarse con sus orígenes, y el cambio inesperado que éste provoca en toda una comunidad. Una película de Sarah Gerber y Twenty Twenty Studios. Visite el sitio web: www.yarasquinthemovie.com Facebook: facebook.com/TheWayBackToYarasquin
