Florence, Arizona is a cowboy town with a prison problem. Founded in 1866, this bastion of the Wild West is home to 8,500 civilians and 17,000 inmates spread over nine prisons. Through an unconventional lens, the documentary film “Florence, Arizona” weaves together the stories of four key…
a film by Julio Tavares © Laterit productions / LX Filmes In 1462, the first African slaves were brought to the island of Cape Verde by the Portuguese colons. It is supposed that they were the first inhabitants of the archipelago. They carried with them the rhythms and the seeds of what became…
Blind Love recounts a trip to Poland of six blind Israelis and their guide dogs who took part in the annual March of the Living, where they visited once thriving sites of Jewish life and culture. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the blind participants and their guide dogs marched from Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Alvin Queen is one of the best jazz drummers of all time. A child prodigy, he played with the greatest masters (Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Pharaoh Sanders... ) He is also a very nice person who has a lot of wisdom to transmit. Deutsche Untertitel verfügbar: Alvin Queen…
Blind Love recounts a trip to Poland of six blind Israelis and their guide dogs who took part in the annual March of the Living, where they visited once thriving sites of Jewish life and culture. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the blind participants and their guide dogs marched from Auschwitz-Birkenau…
"The Making of Lissa" offers a different angle and a deeper understanding of the process of the cross disciplinary collaboration between Brown University and RISD in creating the graphic novel "Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution". Lissa is set in Cairo…
The Big Wave Project – a band of brothers Now out on DVD and Blu-ray and VOD { click here to purchase: http://www.surfingvisions.com/tbp/the-big-wave-project-release/the-big-wave-project-dvd-and-bluray/} The Big Wave Project is a masterful, award-winning documentary on the art of big wave riding…
Trace the evolution of Malaysia from a collection of autonomous sultinates to a colony in the British Empire, and later to an independent federal nation. Examine Malaysian law's approach to the challenges of maintaining harmony in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society. A supplementary study guide…
Un film de Naïs Van Laer
This observational documentary follows Minister for Education & Skills, Ruairí Quinn, and his senior advisers and civil servants as they carry out the day-to-day business of running one or Ireland’s largest government departments. Filmed over six months, with unprecedented access, we…
(Individual license -- watch at home or own your own with a friend.) The rise of extreme energy, the end of economic growth, a new way forward Narrated by Emma Thompson, this award winning documentary looks at where we are going to find our oil and gas today- to the ends of the earth. It chronicles…
Magenta Baribeau Canada, 2015, français avec sous-titre anglais // French with English subtitles Ce documentaire d'auteur examine la réalité des femmes qui ont choisi de ne pas se reproduire. La cinéaste a rencontré des femmes qui ont fait ce choix afin de…
