An old photo of the director's pregnant grandmother launches a cross-generational journey, revealing how early-days Israel had patriarchal control over women's bodies and wombs.The grandmothers' stories led the filmmaker to confront her parents about her own silence on sexual abuse in…
This film documents Les Blank’s year 2000 visit with the legendary co-founder of Direct Cinema, Richard Leacock (1921-2011). At his farm in Normandy, France, Blank, and co-director Gina Leibrecht, recorded conversations with Leacock about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! In the…
Gene Sharp hardly seems like one of the world's most dangerous men. White-haired and soft-spoken, the 83-year-old professor mostly keeps to himself, spending much of his time in his small Boston home reading, writing, and tending to his orchid garden. But to the world's most brutal dictators,…
A 72 year-old Greek designer, collector and educator is buried under the weight of his lost dream: the Thessaloniki Design Museum, which made an international splash and then died a slow and peculiar death in the 1990s. He is also buried under the weight of his enormous design collection, once the core…
“It's been almost 10 years of unabated looting.” — Investigative journalist Thanduxolo Jika HOW TO STEAL A COUNTRY opens like a classic thriller, with investigative journalists meeting anonymous whistleblowers in a parking garage. There, they receive a hard drive filled with…
In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in…
Forty years after the invention of the atomic bomb, the scientists who had worked at Los Alamos laboratories in New Mexico got together, and in this film they talk about the events that changed history, and their thoughts about the future.
An in-depth exploration of the making of the feature film Unfix.
Language LT, RU | Subtitles EN Director - Giedrė Žickytė Cinematographers - Eitvydas Doškus, Audrius Kemežys, Rimantas Leipus Producers - Paul Saadoun, Dagnė Vildžiunaitė Composers - Vytautas Bikus, Viktoras Diawara Editors - Laurence Generet, Samuel Lajus, Giedrė Žickytė Sound designer…
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time" -Steven Wright "Last mile" has been used to describe the difficulty in getting people from transportation hubs like railway stations, bus depots, and ferry slips, to their final destination. Three colorful Bostonians…
Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas.
Durante la dictadura chilena surge un excepcional grupo de mujeres que dejará un legado único en la historia. Es el movimiento Mujeres por la Vida. Figuras femeninas casi olvidadas que en tiempos de dictadura militar, cuando pocos se atrevían a salir a la calle, se organizan convocando…
