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Discover France, Normandy, the most nuclearized region on the planet. With both humor and seriousness, Esther Hoffenberg explores a well-kept secret: nuclear power and the reprocessing of its waste. What does it mean to live with nuclear power? By questioning both the inhabitants, politicans and industry representatives, the director reveals the many aspects of this frightening reality, as invisible …
In 1981 a group of women occupy the British military base at Greenham Common to protest againsit stockage of U.S. nuclear missiles. Soon thousands of women from all walks of life will join the cause, challenging the state and the military, and inspiring hundred of thousands of women throughout the world to follow their lead. The film unfolds in four chronological chapters, from the original march …
What was a reputed Nazi collaborator doing reconnoitering the Canadian Northwest in 1934? In that year, mogul Charles Bedaux embarked on an ill-fated journey across through the Canadian Rockies. His upper-crust caravan, called "The Champagne Safari," was abandoned and film footage of the journey was lost. Decades later, director George Ungar discovers the film. Using it, he composes this documentary …
Winner of the Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2022, director Houman Seyedi's mysterious thriller/drama focuses on an anonymous day laborer (Mohsen Tanabandeh) who is hired to work on a film about the Holocaust. When his sex worker "girlfriend" disappears during filming it sets off a violent chain of events.
Architecture, mass tourism and political ideology come together in Touristic Intents, a new documentary that investigates the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora on Germany's Baltic Sea – a mammoth project started in 1936 by the Nazis to house 20,000 vacationing workers. This 3-mile-long building was used in Nazi propaganda as a promise of leisure time for the masses and to strengthen sympathies …
Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. And once he arrives in Zerograd, he finds himself unable to escape.
Augustine, Charmaine and Jim are some of the hundreds of thousands of Native American children placed in residential schools since the 1870s. The United States government funded over 360 boarding schools which systematically destroyed native cultures and communities. The philosophy of the US Indian Boarding School policy was brutal: “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” Discover how three generations of …
In 2021, in the small rural town of Genoa Nebraska, a harrowing search commenced to locate the graves of Native America children who were taken from their tribes and sent to the Genoa U.S Indian Industrial School, one of America’s largest and longest running boarding schools for indigenous children. The Genoa school was part of a vast network of institutions for Native American children set up in …
Reporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender, a fearless group of journalists maintain India’s only women-led news outlet. The women of Khabar Lahariya (‘Waves of News’), all from the Dalit (“untouchables”) caste, prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital even though many of their reporters don’t have access to electricity at home. Armed with smartphones, …
Finnish director Risto Jarva's futuristic, Pop Art-influenced sci-fi mystery follows a historian of late 20th century culture who becomes fascinated with the enigmatic death of a free-spirited erotic model decades earlier -- and in a VERTIGO-like twist, hires her exact double to re-enact her life for a TV program.
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Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam (Chez Jolie Coiffure, Delphine’s Prayers) has distinguished herself for her quietly observational documentary portraits of African women. With Mambar Pierrette, her feature narrative debut, Mbakam turns her documentarian’s eye to the eponymous Pierrette, a gifted seamstress who works to support her young children and mother. The city of Douala, … More
Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test: the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant, shrouded in secrecy, the world forever changed. Trinity explores the silences surrounding what was unleashed - in New Mexico, Navajo Nation, and Japan. Contrasting official histories with first-person testimony, it leaves viewers to meditate on the ironies that emerge.
Despite the huge risks, two Russian filmmakers have been filming the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country. The filmmakers get rare access to the brave Russians who are willing to speak out against their government. A group of graffiti artists, an actor, a local politician, and a YouTube influencer let the producers film their lives as they voice dissent. It's been dangerous for Russians … More
Yuri Dmitriev exhumes what the Russian rulers would rather forget. After years of searching the pine forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia, he discovers a mass grave containing thousands of people who were secretly executed during Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937. It is not the Russian government but Yuri Dmitriev who tracks down their identities in the archives and organizes commemorations for … More
This is post-pandemic America and everyone is struggling to get by. In this exhilarating debut feature Danny, played by co-director Kelley Kali in a star-making performance alongside Deon Cole, is a recently widowed woman who barely makes ends meet by braiding hair and making deliveries on roller skates. Having convinced her 8 year old daughter they are 'camping out’ in a tent for fun (in a nod to … More
A controversial blogger in New York finds himself in hot water when he messes with the wrong woman.
A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 3 "Trouble". A woman decides if masturbation is good for her or not?
A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 4 "Soul". What happens when a man looks for a soul in the wrong places.
A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 13 "Score". A woman puts a guy bragging about his conquests in his place.
A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view. Episode 7 "Respect". A woman's lover wants her to talk dirty during sex.