A deeply personal documentary by Katia Forbert Petersen about her father, the Polish Jewish war photographer and producer Wladyslaw Forbert. It reveals how the language of the cinema has matured and developed through several generations in the same family as Wladyslaw's footage carries us back to…
The Bunch presents their 11th film: Many Fantasies Later…. Every time you set sail you dream of finding a new land, but sometimes you just go in circles. During this voyage we came down with mad cow disease & won ski film of the year. Are those two things a coincidence? Separate events that…
A lively exploration of the historical and cultural context of Stepping, an energetic communal dance form sweeping college campuses. Young teams of dancers creatively add hip-hop movements to a tradition dating back to the early 20th century.
ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARD: El Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen [https://museo.com.sv/] - a museum dedicated to preserving an exceptional documentary archive on history, culture, historical memory, and human rights in El Salvador. Nearly 40 years later, 12 Latinx millennials bear witness to Rufina Amaya's…
Man Zou: Beijing to Shanghai is an independently produced feature-length documentary shot in China in the fall of 2008. Arriving in Beijing three weeks after the Olympics, four American friends and their Chinese guide set out on a month long trip to bicycle 1,000 miles of China’s countryside, filming…
"What if some shrewd filmmaker had recognized Barack Obama's boyhood promise and documented the birth of his political consciousness as a teen? In "Maori Boy Genius," documaker Pietra Brettkelly ("The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins") may well be profiling New Zealand's…
Durante dos décadas el artista argentino Martín Weber fotografió en 8 países de Latinoamérica a su gente, pidiendo que escriban un sueño con tiza sobre una pizarra de madera. Años después vuelve con este film al reencuentro de un continente donde…
Propriété commune, sexualité libre, dissolution de la famille nucléaire: tels étaient les principes fondamentaux du Friedrichshof, la plus grande communauté d'Europe, fondée au début des années 70 par l'actionniste viennois Otto…
Between 1992 and 2013 the Argentine artist, Martín Weber, photographed with intensity and intimacy Latin America, asking people to write their dreams with chalk on a wooden board. Decades later, he wondered if any of those wishes had been fulfilled. This film is a new journey in the search for…
Terra Incognita is a feature length documentary film and companion civic engagement campaign featuring the story of Dr. Jack Kessler, the current chair of Northwestern University's Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurological Sciences, and his daughter, Allison, an undergraduate student at…
How are time and spirituality connected? What does the Dogon tribe say about the Sirius star? Many of us today cannot answer basic questions about what time is based on - for example what is the leap year? Who was Pope Gregory XII and why are we following his calendar? Why are there 7 days in the…
In the last few years, the data stream flowing through the internet has turned into a tsunami: Ninety percent of the information sitting on the world’s servers was created in the last two years. This total digitization opens up completely new possibilities. Suddenly, our entire lives can be modelled…
