A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who had established his own position at age 30 among the many 'isms' of the time, just before the advent of the Nazi takeover. Soon his art was labeled "decadent" by the Hitler regime. His…
The Rottweiler is one of the oldest dog breeds with a heritage that can be traced back to ancient Roman times. Loyal, highly intelligent and courageous, the modern Rottweiler is often misunderstood. Black Beauty Breed brings you closer to the dog behind the perceived intimidating image. The film celebrates…
MARATUS is a delightful and good-humoured film by Simon Cunich about the experiences of an enthusiastic “citizen scientist”. One weekend, when bushwalking in the Namadgi National Park near Canberra, Stuart Harris, a spider enthusiast who is a garbage collector by day, unwittingly photographs…
Directed by Hao Zhou, Produced by Qi Zhao [86 minutes] Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Tanbo…
Mobilizing working-class transgender hairdressers and beauty queens, the dynamic leaders of the world’s only LGBT political party wage a historic quest to elect a trans woman to the Philippine Congress. A feature documentary by S. Leo Chiang and Johnny Symons (2016, 75 minutes) SYNOPSIS: As…
Winner-Crystal Heart Award-Heartland Film Festival Pola’s March is an inspirational documentary film chronicling the emotional journey of Holocaust survivor Pola Susswein. As one of the "last remnants of a generation that is dying out," Pola travels from Israel back to Poland…
This top ten film of 2015 (New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com) premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, winning numerous festival awards and broad acclaim. In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller…
Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, Kristian Gullichsen, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Hans Kollhoff, Jean Nouvel and Eduardo Souto de Moura. Narration by Kenneth Frampton. Produced at roughly the same time as The New Modernists 9 American Architects, this film examines an equally interesting…
Through unpublished archives and testimonies of the people, the incredible story of concrete panel is told for the first time from Paris to Moscow, from 1950 to today. Dans l’Est de l’Europe, un élément répétitif marque les villes et standardise le paysage.…
A village in Norway where half the people have learning disabilities. Vidarasen is a small village in Norway where about half the people have learning disabilities. Jon Jerstad, who made the film, saw it as a place of freedom, where there was less prejudice and more real feeling. Different people…
The history and effects of tobacco, told by David Bellamy. David Bellamy describes how and why tobacco came to Europe, and explains the biochemical secrets behind its addictive appeal. He presents some remarkable facts and figures about just how lethal it can be, and offers vivid and harrowing human…
The gripping story of one Italian town’s war against the Vatican Cesano is a small town in the Roman countryside with an abnormally high incidence of leukaemia and other diseases, especially among children. It is also home to the Vatican Radio’s global transmitter site. Links between the…
