Directed by David MacDougal (2004 / 87 minutes) In this fifth and final film in the Doon School quintet, MacDougall focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film was made in parallel with 'The New Boys' and intersects with it at several points. However, instead…
The glory days of the Yiddish stage are brought to life in this funny saga of a legendary theatrical family, The Bursteins. Smoothly incorporating rare archival footage and interviews with Yiddish stage veterans, this tightly edited, briskly paced documentary is as richly bittersweet — filled with…
Directed by David MacDougal (2003 / 100 minutes) The social dynamics of the group are the focus of this study of life in Foot House, one of Doon School’s dormitories for new boys. It begins a few days before the boys appear and shows them arriving, struggling with their trunks and suitcases.…
Directed by David MacDougal (2001 / 54 minutes) This third film in the Doon School quintet follows the main protagonist of 'With Morning Hearts' into the next phase of his life in Jaipur House, one of the five main houses of the school. There he plays hockey, sings, studies, and struggles…
YOUSSOU N'DOUR: RETURN TO GOREE Image Youssou N'Dour PosterA musical road movie, Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by enslaved Africans and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge…
In 1975, in Northern California, a diverse crew of skateboarders met at a paved embankment under the freeway, they had no idea their underground movement would last over 50 years and have a global impact on the world of skateboarding. Their story has never been told. Until now. Starring Tony Hawk…
IN A MODEST WORKSHOP IN A BEAUTIFUL Central Otago landscape, Swiss goldsmith Kobi Bosshard, approaching 80 and widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary New Zealand jewellery, continues to produce works of classic simplicity and elegance. Daughter Andrea Bosshard’s lucid and loving film…
MOON BEAT is an award-winning documentary from filmmaker Kevin Stirling that recalls July 1969, when Apollo XI journeyed to the Moon where astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin landed in the Sea of Tranquility and walked on the lunar surface. The flight marked NASA's achievement…
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,…
In the forgotten district of Bilesuvar, South of Azerbaijan, some men and women are looking for something in their dimly enlightened lives. They want to tell us their wishes, their despairs and their fights. It’s all about Bilesuvar’s soul.
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