“Groundbreaking, as well as devastating.... If it's life-and-death drama you're looking for, with entire futures hinging on a few words, this is the place to go.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times “One of the most talked-about and attended films at the Sundance Film Festival…
BEYOND THE BLOCK: BEYOND THE BLOCK: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FILIPINO STREET DANCE Ricky Carranza | 85 mins | Documentary | 2017 (NOT AVAILABLE IN THE PHILIPPINES) Spanning fifty years and charting a path across three continents, BEYOND THE BLOCK (The Untold Story of Filipino Street Dance) weaves a…
Jacky Rom jets off to LA and Las Vegas on a fact-finding mission to investigate murder weapons, deception, and body disposal methods to help inspire her latest crime novel.
At the threshold of the 20th Century, a melting pot of adventurous immigrants, creative mavericks, and freedom-seeking African Americans shaped modern consumerism as we now know it. With intriguing insights and wistful nostalgia, The City That Sold America reveals how Chicago’s creative talent,…
In the 1980s, “Bros"" were one of the biggest bands in the world... for 15 minutes. Having sold out stadiums around the world, they were the youngest to this day to play Wembley and their “Push” album went to Number 1 in over 20 countries, selling 10 million copies worldwide.…
Caldono was one of the most besieged villages of the war in Colombia. Now the FARC guerrillas return to their former hometown. What’s stronger: the urge for revenge or the need for reconciliation?
The documentary film Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae is a musical journey to Jamaica’s Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians of the Rocksteady era. They come together after 40 years to record an album of Rocksteady hits,…
Thule lies in the extreme north of Greenland, Tuvalu is a small island state in the Pacific Ocean. In spite of this huge distance and their polarity, the two places are intimately related by a stroke of fate: whilst in Thule the ice is retreating ever further and turning into seawater, in Tuvalu sealevel…
"Set in Zanskar, Indian Himalaya, Shangku Shelter is a story of two decades of adventure, friendship and social change, driven by a love of skiing. Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris live…
Even though his musical and literary oeuvre is neither large nor very well known apart from his bestseller-novel «The Sheltering Sky», the American composer and author Paul Bowles (1910-1999) was a man of immense charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier (Morocco) in 1949, it was…
L’attrait pour le corps humain et sa sensualité est depuis toujours un des moteurs les plus puissants de création artistique. Même si les tabous entourant le sexe ne sont plus ce qu’ils étaient, l’art qui s’y consacre demeure un sujet méconnu.…
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on a generation of contemporary American artists. Insights into Brancusi’s legacy are presented by Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin…
