Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae Elon's highly educated parents, noted Israeli author Amos Elon, and former correspondent and literary agent Beth Elon, hired a Palestinian man named Musa, the father of eleven children, to take care of their six month old daughter on a daily basis. It…
Wild Mint tells the story of a group of childhood friends in Israel, the experience of growing up under the influence of strong ideology and the first Intifada they oppressed. The story evolves around a tragic scuba diving accident where two young men drown. The accident occurred in Egypt in a beautiful…
“I and the public know what all school children learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return” — W.H.Auden This powerful film about the Jewish Defense League traces the militant group’s history from the streets of Brooklyn where it originated to the Occupied Territories…
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After the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, his longstanding collaborator and editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the footage. Glawogger shot over the course of 4 months and 19 days in the Balkans, Italy, North and West Africa. A journey out into the world with open eyes and open…
Funniest is a feature length documentary, focusing on the 2015 Funniest Person in Austin Contest (FPIA). Austin is well known to be the live music capitol of the world, but in the past decade has regularly drawn producers looking for the next big comic. Cap City Comedy Club's FPIA Contest is the…
On the Borders of Desperation tells the moving story about Tala, who recently lost her only son Shadman, and his friends, Rebuar and Shahoo. Extreme living conditions in Kurdistan, Iran, are forcing them into petrol smuggling over the border to Iraq at great risks. Tala is desperate to save her husband…
Sussie was just 12 years old when she explored that Sweden was not the right place for her to be born. With her unknown passion to Japan as country so far from her little village in Dalarna, she became the fans of different characters in Japanese Manga series. It was impossible to move from her little…
Sabere was sold ten years old, to a 50-year-old afghan man. She became pregnant several times, resulting in miscarriage. Now she is sixteen and being helped to fight for her freedom. Sabere's mother was also inherited by her cousin. Her other daughter, Farzaneh, is now eleven. Her father is selling…
A large group of individuals composed of the victim’s families and former political prisoners who survived the mass killings will participate in the trial. They will testify against a crime that has been kept secret from the public for 25 years. After 25 years of silence, for the first time in…
Without doubt, the worst place in the world to be a woman is Afghanistan. Two young women after being released from prison in Afghanistan: fearing for her life Sara escapes to Sweden, while Najibeh is forced to stay behind. In Sweden a new world opens up for Sara but she struggles to free herself from…
A feature-length cinematographic documentary that takes viewers inside one of the world’s most restricted environments: an Afghan women’s prison. Through the prisoners’ stories we explore how “moral crimes” are used to control women in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
