Paris, juillet 1991 . Une conversation de bistrot entre le crotique francais de cinema Serge Daney et l'historien palestinien Elias Sanbar . Et sur la table, quelques photographies ... Festival de Rotterdam Etats Gebetaux du Documentaire, Lussas Cinémathèque Française
Examines issues for one parent families. The film consists of three edited discussions. The first is between eight boys between the age of nine and nineteen who talk about their experiences of one parent families. The second is a conversation between six mothers and their sons and the final section…
Synopsis: Six Christians face a dark night of the soul that leads them to question everything they believe.
These conversations, with Sandra Barefoot explore the uncomfortable questions, complexities and ambiguities that make self-forgiveness so very hard. The exploration of self-forgiveness raises difficult and uncomfortable questions. In these conversations you can listen to our storytellers as well as…
Rights for single fathers, e.g. a man on his own bringing up five children. GINGERBREAD is an organisation set up by people trying to bring up children on their own. One in five of these are men, and this film tries to show what it's like for a man on his own with a family of five children. He…
With the participation of Roberta Smith, Jan Butterfield and Charles Shere. Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970’s as he moves away from Abstract Expressionism and shifts his focus to Figuration. With the participation of Roberta Smith,…
"It starts before you snap the shutter... It starts with your sense of what's important." These are the words of Roy DeCarava, one of the foremost photographic artists of the twentieth century, contributor to the Family of Man exhibit and the first black photographer to receive a Guggenheim…
Talking history - childhood in a working class area. An old-age-pensioner looks back to her childhood in a working class area. She is not bitter about the much better life young people have today, but she describes the contrast, which is very enlightening. Although made a few years ago, it is useful…
A psychologist practicing conversion therapy has a chance encounter with a young gay activist, resulting in his own epiphany concerning the very practice he was conducting.
Survivors of conversion “therapy” tell their stories in hopes of exposing the industry’s deadly practices.
CONVICT WOMEN & ORPHAN GIRLS 4 Part TV SERIES (4 hours) Writer & Producer SIOBHÁN LYNAM Director BARRIE DOWDALL From 1787 to 1853, over 25,000 women, nearly half of them Irish, were transported in the dark holds of ships on a 16,000-mile journey to the other end of the earth. Arriving…
In 1995 Chicago was hit by an extreme, record-breaking heat wave, so hot that roads melted, rail lines warped, and the lives of 739 residents were lost in a single week; mostly poor, African-American, and elderly residents. Using this tragedy as a springboard, this searing, offbeat doc connects the dots…
