"Boldly provocative” – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine t "Funny as hell" – Matt Fagerholm, Indie Outlook "It's refreshing to see a filmmaker embrace this honesty with such gusto" – Katie Walsh, Indiewire Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna…
My father fled the Cultural Revolution in 1966. After risking his life to get to America, he started our family in Boston. But when his restaurant went bankrupt and my mom got sick, he began to feel like he’d failed at the American Dream. A story of migration is passed down from father to…
ein Film von Ana Grillo, Christina Magdalinou, Silvia Torneden DE 2014, 85 Minuten, FSK 6, deutsch-englische OF, deutsche UT For 25 years now, the renowned Hamburg International Queer Film Festival has been on the forefront of exhibiting and promoting the diversity of queer cinema to an ever-growing…
AT/GER 2016, 98 min, Stefan Ludwig They exist at the edges of society and are considered troublesome and backwards. However, János Orsòs, a Romani from eastern Hungary, has taken a new approach. János founded a school inspired by the Buddhism of B.R. Ambedkar, who freed millions…
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of America’s homegrown art form, Jazz. Director Bret Primack captures Heath’s gentle, humorous sharing of life lessons and the non-threatening…
A festival favourite with critics and audiences in 2013, A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous portrait of three generations in exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive…
Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present, the story of filmmaker Howard Brookner whose work captured the cultural revolution of late 70’s and early 80’s downtown NYC – and his nephew’s personal journey 25 years later to discover his uncle’s films and the…
SUNRISE EARTH is being RE-RELEASED in its entirety for the first time -all 64 episodes PLUS extras in one place- by the original pioneer of "Slow TV," Director David Conover. No music or narration. Only the sounds of nature. "Crazily uneventful and thoroughly wonderful," says Tom…
Before dinosaurs walked the earth, long before mammals, birds and lizards were ever created, the sea turtle, with its thick protective shell, roamed the seas. Many life forms have appeared and disappeared throughout our planet’s long existence, but the sea turtle has survived them all. Until now.…
Loved and cherished, feared and hated, cute and cuddly, majestic, monstrous and ferocious. No other animal on earth has captured our hearts and our imagination like the Brown Bear. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. Coastal Brown…
Thanks Girls and Goodbye is a documentary about a group of women who worked on farms during the Second World War in Australia – ‘the land girls’. Officially established by the government in 1942, the Australian Women’s Land Army was set up to help fill the shortage of manpower…
In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing…
