Winner of 2 Telly Awards for Best Documentary for Religion and for History, "The Blood & The Rose" is a feature length theatrical documentary shot on location in Mexico and Spain, The Blood & The Rose offers riveting interviews with top experts in the fields of science, history and…
More than a traditional war film, In the Face of Evil plays out on an epic scale... from the back-lots of Hollywood, to the jungles of Central America; from the mountains of Afghanistan, to the palaces of the Kremlin; to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of a divided Berlin... In the Face of Evil…
A film by Alexander Schellow / 2012 / France, Germany. After decades of dictatorship, Albania is at a turning point in its history. Yet, in the collective imagination, "Albania does not exist". Facing this lack of images, Alexander Schellow uses his technique of memory reconstruction through…
Called “eloquent,” “touching” and selected as a Critic’s Pick by the New York Times, the 2006 cult-hit documentary DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP based outside of Baltimore). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad leads his…
In German and Arabic with subtitles in German, English and French. The life of the 70 year old Paola Beate von Pückler, semiotition, and goat herder is the main line of this documentary. Aside from the villages, she lives in a Moor Tower inmidst the Andalusian desert, surrounded by her goats,…
A film by Jane Oehr. French language with English subtitles TEA WITH MADAME CLOS is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years…
A film by Frances Calvert. The Torres Strait Islanders are Australia’s ‘other’ Indigenous minority. They remained virtually unknown until 1988 when they made their brief claim for independence. Since first contact with whites in 1871, they have been controlled by benign but effective…
DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM MATERIALS! One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal…
At midnight on Sunday May 31, 1942, three Japanese midget submarines broke through Sydney Harbour's defences and launched a surprise attack on an ill-prepared city. During that night of confusion and violence, 21 Australian and 6 Japanese service personnel lost their lives. Sydney At War recounts…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) The story of an Aboriginal stockman and his family and their growing passion for “picnic racing” on bush tracks in New South Wales. SUNNY AND THE DARK HORSE was filmed at Collum Collum, an Aboriginal-operated cattle station in north-eastern New South Wales.…
Directed by Chris Bamford. Produced by Michael Tear. The problems that confront the remote communities on the Tiwi Islands of the Torres Strait are similar to those that confront young people everywhere – but isolation and a lack of things to do make the young people of these communities particularly…
