Directed by Sarah Barton • 2017 • Australia • 85' DEFIANT LIVES is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the worldwide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the individuals who bravely put their lives on the line to create a better world where everyone is valued…
La Vérité du Sol nous invite à renouer avec ce qui vit sous nos pieds et fait vivre nos corps. Quel lien voulons-nous tisser avec la terre demain ? Animée par l'envie de « rendre aux sols ce qui appartient aux sols », une petite équipe belge est…
Alain Gheerbrant, le langage dénudé / Rina Sherman HD, couleurs, 64 min, 2014 VOICES, rencontres avec des personnes remarquables Alain Gheerbrant, co-auteur du Dictionnaire des symboles, voyageur, il a dirigé en 1949-1950 l’expédition Orénoque-Amazone ;…
Essuyer les larmes – Wiping the Tears / Rina Sherman – Version française HD, couleurs 75 min, 2012 Les années Ovahimba – The Ovahimba Years Un procès d’adultère en droit coutumier entre une femme, son mari et son ami dans lequel la richesse du…
Wiping the Tears – Essuyer les larmes / Rina Sherman – English Version HD, colour, 75 min, 2012 Les années Ovahimba – The Ovahimba Years Wiping the Tears takes us to the heart of the Ovahimba community of Etanga, a small village in the north-west of Namibia. It immerses…
For over a hundred years, Mărculeşti was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three years later, few speak clearly or honestly about what happened. ABSENT is a cinematic…
In 2019, we joined Shirin Neshat on location in New Mexico while she and her team created a new body of work, Land of Dreams, a two-channel video installation presented alongside a series of photographs. The installation features a narrative diptych following an Iranian woman, Simin, who travels through…
On 11 September 1973 a violent coup in Chile overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. What followed was nearly 17 years of repression in which the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet transformed the country. More than 2,000 Chilean exiles came to the UK, and over 300 refugees…
A lyrical exploration of modernist composer and pianist Artur Schnabel features acclaimed actor Udo Samel, pianist Markus Pawlik, singer Dietrich Henschel, and the Szymanowski Quartet. Filmmaker Matthew Mishory uses unexpected textures (super8, drone footage, back-projection) shot in Italy, Switzerland,…
eKhaya retrouvée, pays d’ombres – eKhaya Revisited, Land of Shadows / Rina Sherman – Excerpt SD, couleurs, 52 min, VF & EV, 1990-2 films urbains – urban films eKhaya Revisited, Land of Shadows, is a film about my return visit to South Africa after seven years of…
In the heart-wrenching documentary LETTER TO ANITA, award-winning filmmaker Andrea Meyerson explores the painful legacy of singer Anita Bryant’s infamous anti-gay campaign of the late 1970s. Narrated by three-time Emmy-nominated actress Meredith Baxter, LETTER TO ANITA tells the story of Ronni…
Directed by Lana Lin • 2018 • United States • 98' THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation…
