Khaled has lost his two legs due to an explosion during the events of the Syrian war in Homs city countryside and is living now in Tripoli city (the twin city of Homs) in North Lebanon as he was smuggled to receive medical surgery, and follow-up. We witness the story of Khaled after the loss and the…
"Broken Harmony presents a moving portrait of Chinese human rights activist Hua Ze...The film is a great teaching resource to put students in touch with the gritty reality of China today." - Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Broken Harmony: China’s…
A conservative military family in the heart of the bible belt is left to unravel the mystery behind their gay teenage son's suicide. They soon discover a tragic secret, and begin to question their parenting, values, and civic responsibility amidst a heated city council election in their hometown…
When Zack Harrington, a gay teen from Norman, Oklahoma commits suicide after attending a city council meeting bitterly divided over LBGTQ rights, his conservative family learns how the searing pain of prejudice and misinformation led their son to hide his HIV positive status and forgo treatment. After…
Out in desert-like nature, living in the shadows of the immense fence that is erected to control Mexican immigration, seven Americans tell how the border transforms their lives. They observe the haunting traces left by the crossing migrants – people they never come face to face with – as…
In a two-tone landscape dominated by rolling sand dunes and endless blue skies, an ugly black shadow cuts a shape through the desert. This is the iron fence that runs for nearly 2,000 miles across the US - Mexico border, a border that immigrants trying to get to the US cross every day. Casting a fresh…
BROKEN MEAT A Sensuous Portrait of the Iconoclastic poet Alan Granville A film by Pola Rapaport Director of Photography Wolfgang Held Music by Vincent Attanasio and Stuart Kollmorgen A trip along the seamy edges of New York City and a voyage through the consciousness of the mad beat poet Alan…
Confiscation of Red Indian lands for exploitation. Poetic film about the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians which took place in Arizona. The federal government claimed to be settling a land dispute between the Hopi and the Navajo tribes. In fact the relocation was only to serve to facilitate…
'Broken Wings' is the story of the four engined commercial jet aircraft known as the BAe 146/RJ which was, manufactured up until 2002. 'Broken Wings' looks at the aircraft history from its first flight in 1981 to the present day. Through unique interviews, rare archive footage…
Details Title: Brokopondo: Stories of a Drowned Land Director: John Albert Jansen Year: 1994 Country: The Netherlands and Surinam Length: 47 min Language: Dutch and Saramaccan Subtitles: English ☀ Synopsis The construction of the Brokopondo dam and hydro-electric plant in the 1960s gave…
What if one day you looked in the mirror and saw the most powerful man in the world staring back at you? When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn’t see himself – a middle-aged, unemployed father from the Bronx.…
An intimate portrait of the black arts movement that exploded in the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods during the '80s and '90s as told by writer, historian and Brooklyn resident Nelson George. Featuring Chris Rock, Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Talib Kweli, Lorna Simpson and many others.
