Canadian doctors and patients navigate the newly granted right to die under a broad Supreme Court decision - the first of its kind outside Europe.
Tormented by anxiety, depression and a life-threatening eating disorder, a teenage girl confronts her buried emotions through yoga. With infectious authenticity, I AM MARIS paints an unguarded portrait of mental illness and recovery, using Maris’ own words and vivid artwork to illustrate her…
Television: The Enchanted Mirror A film by Julene Bair and George Csicsery Television: The Enchanted Mirror is a half-hour color film featuring interviews with TV directors, writers, an ABC executive in charge of standards and practices, a brain behavior scientist, an advertiser, and members of…
An insightful exposé on the subculture of trans men, lesbian “butches” and their “femme” counterparts who tow the line between gender definitions. Filmed over five years in NYC during the late 90’s and early 00’s, the featured “Aggressives” share…
Juin 2013. Un mouvement protestataire occupe le parc Gezi à Istanbul. La tension monte entre les manifestants et la police de plus en plus violente. Pendant ce temps, la télévision turque diffuse des documentaires sur les pingouins. Marche arrière est un film auto-censuré…
In the early morning of a middle summer day of 2013 the ultra-athlete Nico Valsesia reached the summit of Mont Blanc (4810 metres). But Nico wasn’t an alpinist like the many others with him that morning. He conquered the highest summit of Europe after a no-stop riding almost 17h long, started the…
Songs Along a Stony Road tells the story of Transylvania’s living folk musicians, and of Zoltán Kallós, their guardian angel, intercutting musical performances with scenes from daily life. http://zalafilms.com/films/stony.html
In October 1967 the filmmaker was beaten at an antiwar demonstration in Oakland, California. Thirty years later he set out to find the police officers who were present at that event—his best clue, a news photograph of himself getting clubbed. The Thursday Club is for anyone interested in the explosive…
Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with their families in 1934. They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday. A film about friendship,…
A one-hour biographical documentary, Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem tells the story of an important American mathematician against a background of mathematical ideas. Julia Robinson, a pioneer among American women in mathematics, rose to prominence in a field where often she was…
From the ravages of a devastated post-Katrina New Orleans, a newfound hope emerges in the form of a free-spirited young woman with a big voice. Meschiya Lake has been a runaway, train-hopper, mud-wrestler, glass-eater in the traveling circus and cross-continent traveler and now she has found a home…
Grant Leigh Saunders is an Aboriginal filmmaker, writer and musician who has secretly always wanted to be a fisherman, just like his father and grandfather before him. This fishing yarn is set against the backdrop of the beautiful Manning River in central New South Wales. Despite his promising artistic…
