Doubt, disillusionment and a changing Nicaragua... Gloria’s parents are revolutionary Sandinistas, fighting to liberate Nicaragua from decades under dictatorship. In 1979, they are finally successful, plunging the nation into civil war. Living life on the front line, the greater good forever…
In January 2010, Libor Podmol arrived in the USA to buy a motorbike from one of the biggest names in freestyle motorcross. The battle for the freestyle motorcross world champion is on. This attractive sport full of dangerous jumps and stunts has captivated fans and sponsors around the world. After a…
"Branding Illness" A woman in the grip of pre-menstrual dysphoric disease slams grocery carts outside a supermarket in frustration. A concerned young Japanese woman asks her husband if he has ever been happy. Peppy actors in lab coats reassure the audience that depression is like "a cold…
"Selling Sickness" This hard-hitting documentary exposes the unhealthy relationship between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers today fund aggressive marketing campaigns designed to create public awareness of previously unknown diseases, or known…
This video is a moving glimpse into the life of Emma Humphreys, a woman who was a writer, campaigner and survivor of male violence. Aged only 17, she was jailed for killing, in self defense, her pimp who repeatedly raped her. She fought a historic struggle to overturn the murder conviction and on the…
This award-winning, feature-length documentary explores a unique hobby for climbers and outdoor adventurers known as 'highpointing.' The filmmakers follow two college-age women as they strive to reach the highest point in every state, including one of the most dangerous in the continental US.…
A way out is a documentary film about three Chinese teenagers who have different family backgrounds，financial conditions and living environment striving to find their future under the same education system. The three subjects, one from Beijing, a metropolis; one from Xianning, a small town of Hubei Province…
‘The Good Change Poles Apart’ (DOBRA ZMIANA) is a unique documentary analysis of the conflict, which is tearing Poland apart and is an example an early glimpse of the populist movement spreading throughout the Western world. The story is led by two Polish women and their families representing…
‘The Good Change Poles Apart’ (DOBRA ZMIANA) is a unique documentary analysis of the conflict, which is tearing Poland apart and is an example an early glimpse of the populist movement spreading throughout the Western world. The story is led by two Polish women and their families representing…
hands off student unions supports the students’ struggle to preserve the autonomy of their union from the conditions of state control embodied in Thatcher’s education proposals. It includes footage of demonstrations in Oxford, Birmingham and Brighton; talking heads of various student activists;…
Nine artisans on secluded Gabriola Island reveal the differences between mass manufactured and authentic locally handmade through intimate portraits of their work and lifestyle.
Written and directed by Julien Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world’s top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open at Paris’s…
