Building a temple in the Himalayas and teaching on the nature of mind in Amsterdam - with Sey Rinpoche
1990, near the height of the AIDS crisis in the US, John Fleck was attacked by the US Government as one of the NEA 4, when funding to three queer artists and a prominent straight feminist was reversed by the National Endowment for the Arts. His work was introduced on national television as “homosexual…
The living tradition of Milarepa in the Himalayas Would you like to become Buddha in this life? Leave all appearances behind you And let go of attachment to yourself Milarepa, 1052 - 1135 AD Buddhism has many appearances. In the exotic tradition of Milarepa, there are yogis who do their meditation…
With Khyentse Norbu, Buddhist teacher / filmmaker Khyentse Norbu, also known as Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is a prominent incarnation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Surprisingly, in the West, he is best known as a film director. In this documentary we see him in Nepal on the set for his latest film,…
Long before COVID19 physicians and medical students faced high rates of burnout and suicide. This film is the 60 minute hospital version of the groundbreaking film by Emmy winner Robyn Symon . FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY at MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS. Includes Discussion Guide by emailing us at info@donoharmfilm.com
PRESENT TIME journal of a country monastery is a poetic historical portrait of a monastery, representing 15 years and told over five seasons. Woven into these seasons is an intimate, observed chronicle of the everyday lives of monks. Established in 1947 the monastery was once a thriving community…
Chris Bombardier is on a mission to become the first person with severe haemophilia to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountain on each continent. He has completed five of the climbs already, but he next faces the big one: Everest.
Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. In 2014, she was both the first woman and…
Cold Paradise offers rare insight into the lives of Filipino temporary workers and permanent residents in the Yukon, chronicling their struggle to settle into the North as they cope with separation from their children and families, and a climate 70 degrees colder than their homeland.
Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. In 2014, she was both the first woman and…
Le blues cathartique du nord du Mississipi. Fils du batteur Calvin Johnson, petit-fils de l'immense bluesman R. L. Burnside, superbe batteur lui-même, formé avec son grand-père dès ses treize ans avant de jouer avec le gratin du roots'n'roll (T-Model Ford,…
After the holocaust the world said, "never again," yet genocide is happening in the world right now. The stories we forget to tell, of the survivors we never knew, will haunt us until we listen and act.
