A film by Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque Greyland is the story of what was the fastest shrinking city in the United States, Youngstown, Ohio. Once the booming centre of American steel, when the bottom fell out of the industry in the 1950s, 60% of the population moved out. Today, 37% of those left,…
Un film d'Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque Filmé sur 6 ans, Greyland présente Rocco, un ancien accroc aux drogues dures, et Amber, une mère monoparentale, qui tentent de reconstruire leur ville suite au déclin des grandes industries, mais qui sont confrontés…
Grey Matters: Teaching The Way The Brain Learns follows three public school teachers using a teaching model to shape and guide their teaching practice. The model is based on research from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, and meets the needs of educators and students. The film offers a unique…
Grey Violet- Silmätikku Russia’s current patriotic bluster and turn to ultra conservative values have driven many of its citizens to flee abroad. Grey Violet (not he or she, but ze) is a mathematician by profession, an activist by heart and one of those who has had to leave Russia for…
Director: Todd Trigsted, Writer: Michael Oriard, Composer: Michael Manring American football is more than a game. Since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, football has become not just Americans' favorite spectator sport but also a supposed training for manhood, a fundamental…
Frontman Joey LaRocca (The Briggs) navigates a musical career that fell short of his youthful expectations as it collides with the realities of maturing and gaining family responsibilities.
First responders are exposed to trauma and death in their day-to-day duties which consequently makes them vulnerable to grief. This session probes into how trauma, vicarious trauma, and grief impact our nervous system and reshape our worldview, and practical tools to manage and heal from their effects. Here…
This animated film looks at the ways children and young people respond to grief, and how people can help. When someone dies, life for those who were close to them will never be the same again. Bereavement is particularly hard for families. At a time when children are in need of extra support, so are…
A successful treatment for excessively grief-stricken people. A documentary about a successful treatment for intensely grief-stricken people. Dr Donald Ramsey (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam) treats an English woman who has been suicidal and grief-stricken…
The filmmaker returns home to a place bordering the bilingual region of Lower Carinthia to talk to the people there about their “great son” Peter Handke. His search unearths the many unresolved contradictions and ambivalences of a small place where there is repression of the Slovenian-speaking…
"Gringo Trails" Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visit, and how are they changed? From the Bolivian jungle to the party beaches of Thailand, and from the deserts of Timbuktu to the beauty of Bhutan, GRINGO TRAILS, directed by…
"Que vaut-il mieux prostituer : son cul ou son âme ? Le cul, bien entendu. C'est plus pénible physiquement, mais c'est plus propre." Quand à 30 ans, au début des années 60, Grisélidis fuit Genève avec ses deux enfants et son amant noir,…
