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- The Bloodlines Video Diary Project is a one hour documentary co-directed by two 8th grade children. Ebony Graves, 13, and Dennis Midiri , 14, each filmed video diaries over one school year chronicling their lives in inner city Philadelphia. Dennis, who lives in the working class neighborhood of Port Richmond, lives with his mother and two sisters. He attends a disciplinary public school and is isolated from his classmates and peers due to emotional and learning differences. Ebony Graves attends a small Catholic School in North Philadelphia, and lives with her mother and grandmother. Each child creates intimate and powerful family narratives about their transition from 8th grade to high school.
- "American Fisheries" explores one of the greatest sea stories of all time, the dramatic tale of the 500-year-old North Atlantic cod fishery. Today the fishery is in ruins, and fishing towns across the North Atlantic from England to New England are dying. The colossal mismanagement of the ocean has meant catastrophe for both fish and fishermen.
- It begins with the arrival of two travelers to an isolated farm inhabited by a single man. One of the travelers explains car trouble and asks to use a phone. Though seemingly strangers, more history surrounds their relationship than is explained and the travelers settle in without much hesitation. Time passes and the travelers do not leave setting in motion events of increasing peculiarity.
- Documentary presents a group of Turkish girls who and their football team were preparing to conquer the Berlin state league.
- New York City is home to 2.8 million immigrants from 185 countries. In '90 Minutes' we follow a diverse group of New Yorkers from the 32 countries participating in the 2006 World Cup, as they experience the tournament in the city. We get a peak into their lives, dreams and passion for the game. How does the excitement of the month-long event enlighten their sense of identity and nationality? How does it bring them together and set them apart? What does it mean to be an immigrant in a city of immigrants? A portrait of the diversity of New York City told through the prism of the world's greatest sports event.
- A film about the life and work of the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo I, full of memories and thoughts of his work.
- Filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and featuring live performances by Dog Day, North Of America, The Stolen Minks, The Superfantastics, Windom Earle, The Just Barelys and many more, this is the story of a community, a house and a very long weekend. Not just a music documentary, it's a snapshot of the city's vibrant independent music scene at its most intimate. Captured in a house that has long functioned as a hub for creativity in the city, it follows a cast of musicians and artists as they record a document of their own time. Bands fill every room in the house, from the bathroom to the attic. On-the-fly, direct and genuinely urgent, 6015 Willow follows twenty Halifax bands over three days, sweating buckets and blowing fuses.
- The cinematographic essay about voyeurism, surveillance and the now voluntary urge to be watched.
- A documentary about two children on different points along the autism spectrum.
- Listen to a team of experts analyze what made AC/DC one of the greatest live bands ever.
- A comparison of war on the streets of New York City and the war in the Middle East.
- Didactic and funny, sort of directions for use for the aspiring director, it is full of wittiness and artfulness that help to create a short movie in 35mm with very little means. This autobiographical feature tells the story of a director who???s been fighting for ten years, trying to finance his movies that don???t follow the traditional production???s schemes.
- Afghanistan: The 21st century finds the country destroyed from the war and the drought. Many dream of a better life in the western world. And they set off... On the way to Europe they face the forces of Nature, illnesses, hunger, crooks and the harshness of the national authorities. Arriving in Greece a new "quality of life" awaits them in the refugee encampments in the countryside, in abandoned houses, in the city squares or in makeshift lodgings and if they find work maybe they can succeed in renting a house as a group. Plenty are awaiting for an opportunity to cross over once more... the borders to the West. For some though the biggest shortage is not material. Like Wais, they decide to return to their country to live with their families. Others like Hossain, choose to remain in Greece.
- The dream of home ownership for many residents of Martha's Vineyard is becoming increasingly difficult. In the past decade, skyrocketing real estate values, paired with the high cost of living are forcing a the steady economic migration of many islanders, threatening the continuity of the social and cultural fabric that makes the island community so unique. This documentary is an intimate portrait of the housing crises, as seen through the eyes of islanders whose lives are affected by the housing issue on the island. The film follows participants in local housing lotteries, and islanders open their doors and share their thoughts about the housing problem, and the fears and aspirations about the future of the community they call home.
- Des blocs en Valais presents the canton of Valais in Switzerland, its bouldering spots and some of its historical and current actors and drivers, including Lucien Abbet, Benoît Dorsaz, Fred Nicole, Dave Graham... Frédéric and François Nicole gives us spectacular demonstrations of this sport, showing us routes like "Radja", the world's first 8b+. A topo-video part contains 28 climbing sites with a geographical map, and more than 160 video sequences for as many chosen blocks... more than 2h30 of climbing.
- A "road movie" to the past: two buses, two journeys, two final destinations, two opposing ideologies. The first bus carrying "the victors" on their way to commemorate and celebrate Tito's birthday at his birthplace, the second transporting the elderly and "defeated", as well as some young idealists, to the place of the World War II massacre at Bleiburg. But to the filmmaker Goran Devic, an outsider and observer, it was much more than that: "I was struck by the dramatic and emotional "sameness" of what was going on around me."
- "Mimezrane, The Girl with Braids" is the adaptation of a traditional Berber tale. The young orphan Mimezrane is struck by a curse: she cannot give birth to a child until she has the bracelets of Fertility. The very ones that make you blind if you haven't touched them before looking at them. Her lover, Hennouche, her lifelong lover, is ready to do anything to find them.
- 'The Stem Cell Divide' examines the controversy over embryonic stem cell research, which has galvanized the scientific, religious and political sectors throughout the United States. We show how Missourians grappled with the conflict, which transcends geography, religion, political parties, race, gender, age and socioeconomic status. Showing both sides and challenging assumptions, we explore the passions and principles of patients, citizen advocates, scientists and policy makers.
- Written, shot and edited within a three day span, Peekaboo Rose examines fever dream reactions to the city of Portland. Experimental documentary format which incorporates music, prose and image to capture a reactionary look at one particular day in one particular city.
- Watch for free on YouTube and Vimeo. Come with Chuck to Ireland. Stand alongside him as he drinks Guiness in Dublin, or surveys the wave-battered coast of the Burren and the mystical environs of Blarney Castle. As in all of his tavelogues, if you'll take that first step with Chuck, you'll feel as if you're acually there with him.
- Fort Cochin on the Malabar coast. Nine lives. It's just another day when their paths cross. Or is it?
- The distinctly different experiences in the life of Raman, a man with speech impairment who works as an assistant at a tea-shop in a village in Kerala and Diyaraman, wife of American Defense Secretary and a media activist who is trying to make a documentary about the adverse impact of American colonial expansion worldwide.