After decades of lawlessness, order seems to have returned to the Hill of Pleasures. In one of Rio’s largest favelas, a Police Pacifying Unit has taken over control from organized crime. There is intensive patrolling, jurisdiction has been restored and for the first time inhabitants get to voice…
Daan is used to stand in front of a camera. Growing up, it was his father’s camera, world-renowned photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. Now it’s the camera of his best friend, Joris Postema. Together with him Daan tries to get control of his life by confronting his father posthumously.…
Light in the Water chronicles the birth and life of West Hollywood Aquatics, the first openly gay masters swim team. From the team's founding to train for the inaugural Gay Olympic Games in 1982, through AIDS epidemic, to the wedding of two members after marriage equality passed, the team is another…
Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague,…
In northern India’s sparsely populated and mountainous Ladakh region, an impoverished young boy is discovered to be the reincarnation of an esteemed, high-ranking Tibetan monk. Born displaced from his original monastery in Tibet, the boy is denied his rightful place. Amid growing doubts and mounting…
Official website: iamthebluesmovie.com VISA CLASSIFICATION IN QUEBEC: General From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I AM THE BLUES travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends. I AM THE BLUES takes the audience on a musical journey through the…
This short documentary tells the history behind the discovery of the Cepilho’s Wave that is located in the Village of Trindade really close to the border of the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on the Brazilian Coast. This region has great waves and is known as the place where talents…
What are Emergent Church leaders teaching that has so many of our current generation tuned in to their "doctrine," but tuned out to holy scripture? How have Emergent leaders captured the hearts and minds of unsuspecting people all over the world, departing from many of the clear teachings,…
A sudden, unexpected death from prescription anti-psychotics triggers a global investigation into the crimes of the pharmaceutical industry and the ways in which they turned dangerous, deadly medications into multi-billion-dollar blockbusters. In 2005, director Anniken Hoel’s sister Renate…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/death-row-p862.aspx Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian color, 59 min, 1979 in English Death Row is a film about daily life on Death Row in Texas. When the film was made in March 1979, 114 men were housed in the…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/himalayan-herders-p783.aspx John Bishop, Naomi Bishop color, 76, 1997 Himalayan Herders is an intimate portrait of a temple-village in the Yolmo valley of Central Nepal where Tibetan Buddhists consult shamans,…
Through a journey across Europe, starting in Rennes, finishing in Saint-Petersburg, a team of young documentarists spontaneously and poetically engage with an experience of culture, languages and borders. The camera follows Tao, a blooming artist travelling by the means of her skateboard. Along the way…
