This film takes a closer look at the effect on the local people living in the area of the Canadian oil sands in Alberta. Through a young Norwegian woman’s eyes we get an insight into the complicated industry's navigations between the lack of governmental rules and regulations, and the violations…
Three Arab-Canadian men are detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and Egypt. Upon their release they return to Canada struggling to find some answers as to why they were detained and tortured. An internal inquiry into their cases, the Iacobucci Inquiry, reveals that the Canadian government…
This film examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded…
With hundred kilos on their backs they are facing storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their craft is not only a profession, but also their way to the calmness. In the documentary Freedom under Load we get to know the oldest generation of the porters in the High Tatras, who climb with supplies to the mountain…
Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is forced to flee her father's village, seeking refugee…
The documentary, directed by Ruggero Gabbai and produced by Elliot Malki, is about the story of the Egyptian Jews between 1948 and 1956. The story is told by 20 witnesses who narrate their own experience. The film covers personal memories through interviews, historical events and footages. The protagonists…
http://www.microbirth.com/freedom-for-birth/ FREEDOM FOR BIRTH is a 58 minute campaigning film that re-frames Human Rights as the most pressing issue in childbirth today. In many countries around the world, women are being denied the most basic human right of autonomy over their own bodies. They…
This is the Goth Music Documentary film you've been waiting for from Cleopatra Records! Five years in the making, this film captures the the history and the future of Goth thru interviews of the Genre's biggest stars, complete with a Goth Music soundtrack to literally die for! It's all…
Desert Around Me: the ADHD Epidemic a Challenge of Global Proportions is a film about ADHD and a famous race in the desert, the Marathon des Sables. Witness five elite athletes battle fatigue, the sand, the heat, and themselves as they run on behalf of TEAM I RUN4ULTRA for ADHD awareness while learning…
FOUR DOCUMENTARY FILMS ABOUT HOLOCAUST AS WE DON'T KNOW IT When the Holocaust is mentioned, most people recall images of tattooed numbers on forearms, footage of children in striped uniforms in Auschwitz or Hitler’s speeches. Dispelling our notions of a “Holocaust documentary”,…
A lecture by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of Walter Benjamin given in January 1968 at the Goethe House in New York. A rare document. German with English subtitles.
A film directed by NEIL ARMFIELD, produced by GLENYS ROWE. The Castanet Club started life in the gritty steel town of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in 1982. The town was like a kind of artistic blast furnace as well. Precious metal was separated from the slag by audiences who demanded no-bull entertainment.…
