"A rare insight into bonding between siblings against all odds. Deeply moving and genuinely inspiring.” - BBC World - - - A group of remarkable young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trek through the Indian Himalayas, accompanied by their brothers and sisters. Unresolved…
The untold story of the history and making of Penicillin. In 1940, as World War Two raged, Australian Howard Florey and team at Oxford University made the worlds first antibiotic. They used old bedpans, parts of a broken telephone and scrounged dairy equipment. Penicillin was a lifesaver, but its…
A story about the absence of blood... of how "a massacre of an election" was avoided... and became a triumph of emerging democracy. In Iraq, the battle for democracy means daily horror and bloodshed. In Papua New Guinea in early 2007 - ahead of a mid-year general election - there were widely-held…
April, 1947. The artist Joy Hester – The beautiful, peroxide-blonde bombshell of the Melbourne art world – discovers she is dying of cancer. She is twenty-seven years old. Hester responds to the news as only Hester could – within days, she abandons her artist husband Albert Tucker,…
Zink is a 55,000 kilometre long journey through 21 countries around the world in search of answers to concrete questions about our very existence. The insights of locals with whom we have shared our journey invite us to get to know other cultures and reflect upon the secret to happiness and our reason…
Every Mystery of Human Existence - Explained in One Movie! Subtitled versions available with purchase in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, English. In this uplifting, humorous documentary, Roger Nygard tracks down spiritual leaders, gurus, scientists, and a pizza chef, creating a witty, thought-provoking…
Insa Sparrer and Matthias Varga von Kibéd in a seminar at Cartagena de Indias, Columbia march 1st - 5th, 2017
Trailer in English, full movie in Ukrainian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century Jerzy Czarnecki, the protagonist of the film, could have contented himself with a quiet retirement after many years of work as a nuclear technologist for the Swiss Federal Office…
Naive dreams – A Jewish community lives on A documentary film by Susanne and Peter Scheiner Length: 30 min Spoken Languages: German, Slovak, Hungarian Subtitles: Hungarian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Synopsis The Jewish community in Komárno (Slovakia) celebrates 220 years –…
MARIA MUSS PACKEN ist ein Film über ein altes polnisches Ehepaar und ihren Kampf gegen den drohenden Verlust ihrer Wohnung. Ein Film über Gerechtigkeit und die Bewältigung von Schicksalsschlägen – mit positiver Lebenseinstellung. Eine Parabel über das Altwerden und Jungbleiben. Auf…
ART IN SMOG offers an intimate, philosophical glimpse of contemporary China, experienced through the work and lives of four artists and a curator. Footage from 1991 and 2016 documents a changing world. SU XINPING and XIA XIAOWAN were young graduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts who dreamed of…
Fifty years ago, a 22-year-old landscape architecture student named Don Bartoletti signed a $250-a-month lease at 111 ½ E. Beaver Ave. for a bar he had wanted to create since arriving in State College four years earlier. This bar would be a welcoming place where businessmen, students, Viet Nam…
