The Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal made headlines around the world as the first woman to ever make it to the finals of “Million’s Poet”, an Abu-Dhabi based Million Dollar reality television show. It is the Arab world’s biggest poetry competition, and it is dominated by men. In her…
I Am Paul Walker is a feature-length documentary film exploring the life and legacy of actor Paul Walker, the Southern California native who cut his teeth as child actor before breaking out in the blockbuster Fast and Furious franchise. Featuring interviews with those who knew Paul best both professionally…
"Navajo Math Circles" follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. Using a model called math circles, the students stay late after school and assemble over the summer at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, to study mathematics. The math circles approach emphasizes…
This film’s director Hendrik Schäfer and a man who goes by the name of Bluefrog made contact on a dating site. Hendrik wants to find out more about this mysterious man who doesn’t want to reveal anything personal despite his ambitions to fully expose himself online. Bluefrog agrees to…
Why True Liberty Needs Heretics. People who dare to question important themes today, are often silenced or labeled as suspicious and dangerous. Where once democracies valued and encouraged debate society is dividing itself with stark lines between the left, the right, the good or the bad. This is…
viva portugal was made by a group of French and West German journalists (the English version was assembled by cinema action), and traces the first year of the Portuguese revolution. Besides documenting the political changes, from the overthrow of Caetano's dictatorship to the failure of a right…
people of ireland documents the self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Free Derry in 1969. It includes: interviews with militants, community leaders, a priest, a Stormont Minister and unemployed workers; footage of mass meetings behind the barricades, popular self-organisation, the Labour Home…
LOGLINE Can a documentary save a fish species from extinction? SHORT SYNOPSIS We lost bluefin tuna forever from Bosporus and the great white shark chasing it ! we lost marlin, we lost Mediterranean monk seal, we lost Bosphorus mackerel... Is BLUEFISH stands the next marine species on line of extinction…
A portrait of a New York neighborhood, centered around East 77th Street and its immediate surroundings. The film captures the flavor of this area, made up of a white population from the very rich on 5th Avenue to the ordinary citizens as you proceed towards the East River which was known as the Dead…
“White Dog” was a much discussed and controversial film directed by Sam Fuller in 1981, based on a novel by Romain Gary. Its theme is American racism. The central figure is a white German shepherd, adopted by a young actress played by Kristy McNichol, who discovers that the dog had been trained…
“Can cinema forge a country? This quirky doc cracks open the vaults at Avala Film Studios, the deserted state-owned facility that once churned out star-studded propaganda fostering the myths behind the rise -- and eventual collapse -- of Yugoslavia.” HotDocs Serbia, 100 minutes, 2011.…
A biography of Richard Wright, author of Black Boy and Native Son, from his impoverished childhood, involvement in left-wing politics and literary relationships, to his exile and death in Paris.
