Aziz Sahmaoui porte un pan entier de l’histoire méditerranéenne. Né à Marrakech, il est confronté à l’essentiel des musiques populaires du Maghreb, des plus électroniques à celles que l’on sculpte dans le boyau ou la peau tannée.…
Only four biographical details are known about Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. We do not have any drawings describing his features. However, it seems that 400 years after his birth, Shabazy is still an extremely popular poet that keeps living in an entire community's collective soul. Who was Shabazy? A poet…
In 1921, six dead bodies were found near the Red House between Tel Aviv and Jaffa. One was the body of Y.H. Brenner, a brilliant author, the sharp critic of his generation, a man of ambiguous sexuality and the characteristics of a raging prophet; he was well known throughout the Jewish world. An official…
By the age of thirty he’d already become the most famous poet in the Jewish world. He spent very few years living in Tel Aviv, but he loved the city dearly. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral in 1934. “King of the Jews” is a portrait of the most beloved Jew of his day, Chaim NachmanBialik.…
Prédateurs mythiques, longtemps craints dans toutes les mers du monde, les orques font aujourd’hui l’objet d’une véritable fascination, grâce au travail acharné de nombreux scientifiques. Sur la côte Ouest du Canada, des chercheurs étudient depuis…
about the life and works of groundbreaking poet YonaWollach. Wollach died young, leaving a legacy of urban myth, madness, and mystery around her eccentric personality. The film is based on seven tapes of interviews granted by Wollach before her death, in which she speaks of madness, drugs, encounters…
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“Women On The Land: Creating Conscious Community” highlights the work of women of this Northern California coastal community over the past forty years. The film opens with archival footage of women who founded "Country Women" in the 1970's, the extremely successful feminist…
En qué momento las mujeres dejamos de creer en nosotras mismas, en nuestra naturaleza? La directora Guadalupe Sánchez acompaña a Naoli Vinaver (partera y antropóloga) en un taller que realiza en México y Brasil con parteras de distintos lugares del mundo. Sus aprendizajes,…
A daring team of astronauts and aviators fly a high-speed Gulfstream jet around the earth faster than anyone ever has to set the pole-to-pole circumnavigation record. Beginning their mission from the same spot Apollo 11 launched for the moon 50 years before, this tribute to the past, present, and future…
Following his harrowing documentary, It's Always Late for Freedom, director Mehrdad Oskouei continues his exploration of a male juvenile detention facility near Tehran. Last Days of Winter follows these young men in the days leading up to the Iranian New Year, as they take stock of their lives. With…
Come to New Mexico, where pilgrims walk 27 miles from Santa Fe to the Miraculous Shrine of the Cross of Chimayo. See the Crucifix, found in the dirt, and the Holy Dirt, which is used by pilgrims in petition for healings. Listen to a testimony of a healing from the dirt of Chimayo. See the dirt,…
