AT/GER 2016, 98 min, Stefan Ludwig They exist at the edges of society and are considered troublesome and backwards. However, János Orsòs, a Romani from eastern Hungary, has taken a new approach. János founded a school inspired by the Buddhism of B.R. Ambedkar, who freed millions…
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of America’s homegrown art form, Jazz. Director Bret Primack captures Heath’s gentle, humorous sharing of life lessons and the non-threatening…
A festival favourite with critics and audiences in 2013, A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous portrait of three generations in exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive…
Uncle Howard is an intertwining tale of past and present, the story of filmmaker Howard Brookner whose work captured the cultural revolution of late 70’s and early 80’s downtown NYC – and his nephew’s personal journey 25 years later to discover his uncle’s films and the…
SUNRISE EARTH is being RE-RELEASED in its entirety for the first time -all 64 episodes PLUS extras in one place- by the original pioneer of "Slow TV," Director David Conover. No music or narration. Only the sounds of nature. "Crazily uneventful and thoroughly wonderful," says Tom…
Before dinosaurs walked the earth, long before mammals, birds and lizards were ever created, the sea turtle, with its thick protective shell, roamed the seas. Many life forms have appeared and disappeared throughout our planet’s long existence, but the sea turtle has survived them all. Until now.…
Loved and cherished, feared and hated, cute and cuddly, majestic, monstrous and ferocious. No other animal on earth has captured our hearts and our imagination like the Brown Bear. Legends, movies and television have depicted the bear as everything from a cuddly toy to a raging monster. Coastal Brown…
Thanks Girls and Goodbye is a documentary about a group of women who worked on farms during the Second World War in Australia – ‘the land girls’. Officially established by the government in 1942, the Australian Women’s Land Army was set up to help fill the shortage of manpower…
In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became a missionary for mind altering drugs, asking us to think for ourselves, igniting a global counter-culture movement, landing…
Why is ham pink? Why do we believe that it is good for our children? Why are product labels beyond understanding? From Brittany to Denmark, through California and Wisconsin, director Sandrine Rigaud conducts a year-long investigation, trying to understand how these industrial giants are capable of stalling…
THIS RENTAL IS INTENDED FOR EDUCATIONAL USE AND IS ALLOWED TO BE STREAMED IN CLASSROOMS AND WORKSHOPS ONLY. For theatrical, community, or campus screenings, please e-mail info@mediaed.org for permission and fees. Filmmaker Daphne Valerius's award-winning documentary The Souls of Black Girls explores…
AT 2011, 77 min, Fritz Ofner Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though the people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and a social worker helps the relatives of women who have…
