The uranium mines have been shut down and Mounana, the small city, has been forgotten. The former miners, who spent their whole life working for French nuclear industry, now fear for their health and their family's and everyday they have to make do within a polluted land. At the heart of the…
Feature documentary about an American basketball player’s experience in Iran. 90% on Rotten Tomatoes "I confess to being a sucker for sports movies, the ones with the "Big Game" at the end. "The Iran Job" has all the requisite elements of that cinematic subgenre,…
The ways we use animals in laboratories and factory farms are discussed. A moving short film which looks at the ways we use animals and explains why we have to improve our treatment of and attitudes towards them. The film is not a simple catalogue of the inhumanity of vivisection laboratories and…
"The Iron Ministry" Filmed over three years on China's railways, J. P. Sniadecki's masterful documentary traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one,…
Documentary on Israel's settlement program, made by Palestinians and Israelis together. Following the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, more than 200 settlements and outposts have been built in these territories, in violation of international law. The Iron Wall exposes this phenomenon…
Director Mette Korsgaard considers herself a feminist and a gender equality advocate. She cannot understand why her husband, the high-profile journalist Niels, won't fight for women's rights, considering how many other issues he's willing to fight for. When their daughter Marie decides…
Director Mette Korsgaard considers herself a feminist and a gender equality advocate. She cannot understand why her husband, the high-profile journalist Niels, won't fight for women's rights, considering how many other issues he's willing to fight for. When their daughter Marie decides…
The monastery of Sion, in the Netherlands, has room for 120 monks. But in 2013 there were only eight monks left. They started to think of moving, make a new beginning somewhere else and hopefully attract new men to join their community. And so the idea was born of returning to the island in the…
The Faroe Islanders believe hunting is vital to their way of life, but when a local professor makes a grim discovery the community is changed forever. Emmy Award nominated 2018 Peabody Award Best Documentary 2017 Jackson Hole Science Media Awards winner of the Changing Planet Award, and the Science…
In the North Atlantic archipelago of the Faroe Islands the traditional hunting of seabirds and pilot whales continues to provide food for the table, but many doubt this way of life will continue. Local species of seabirds are in catastrophic decline as plastic flotsam fills their stomachs and pilot whales…
The most controversial and provocative writer of his age and the most acclaimed soprano in the world: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. The film that made them meet was “Medea”, shot in 1969. Nearly 50 years later, the story of an impossible love is unveiled through the memories and anecdotes…
”What we do to the land, we do to ourselves.” The Issue with Tissue documents the little known, largely untold story of the boreal forest and the Indigenous First Nations who call it home, that it is being clearcut for the manufacture of toilet paper and that protecting and conserving…
