"We never had that democracy. It’s like putting a seed on the ground. We never see it grow because someone keeps coming and steps on it." Garry Auguste, former member, Haitian National Police Haiti Betrayed reveals how Canada colluded with the United States and France to…
Original version with English subtitles // Version originale avec sous-titres anglais -- When conviction is guaranteed, justice is lost. On the 30th of June, 1966, in a small country-side town in Japan, four members of the Hashimoto family are stabbed and burnt to death in their family home. The…
Although Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s—HAROLD AND MAUDE, THE LAST DETAIL, SHAMPOO, COMING HOME, BEING THERE—he is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation. Amy Scott’s exuberant portrait explores…
El 10 de junio de 1971, una manifestación de estudiantes se desplazaba por la Avenida de los Maestros, frente a la Escuela Normal Superior, en la Ciudad de México. Las demandas del movimiento estudiantil, conformado por alumnos de la UNAM y el IPN, se sumaban a la huelga de estudiantes…
http://dorf-mit-festival.de "Wir leben mitten in der Pampa, da muss man eben was machen.“ sagt Stefan Reichmann, künstlerischer Leiter und Geschäftsführer von Haldern Pop.Deshalb bauen mehr als 400 Menschen aus dem Dorf jedes Jahr im August das Haldern Pop Festival auf und…
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while…
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a solitary existence within the radiation red zone. Here, the blowing wind is the soundtrack to Naoto's lonely days, spent cultivating his land and feeding his cattle. Naoto fights to build a new life in this post-apocalyptic…
This two-hour documentary showcases the hard-working machines that broke the plains to make agriculture the most important industry in the United States. All the footage is from the 2021 Half Century of Progress Show, which is held every other year at the Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul, Illinois,…
One day I was struck by this phrase: "To not be a mother is to miss out on half of the world." The words are Marguerite Duras'. I am not a mother. Have I missed out on half of the world? I decided to do some research, to try to come as close as possible to this experience that I will…
HALF THE PICTURE investigates the systemic discrimination in Hollywood by interviewing talented directors, Ava DuVernay (Selma), Lena Dunham (“Girls”), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) and Jill Soloway (“Transparent”) among others.
Modern society has long believed that women hold up half the sky in terms of equality and progression. So when it comes to the sport of professional cycling, why aren't women receiving half the road? Directed by pro cyclist Kathryn Bertine, Half the Road explores the world of women's professional…
Half Way invites us to witness at close hand the stark realities of homelessness in Britain today through the personal story of Director Daisy-May Hudson who, over a year, filmed her own family’s right to retain their dignity while waiting for council rehousing. But this is not the usual tale of…
