Téhéran, juin 2013. Les Iraniens s’apprêtent à élire le nouveau président de la République islamique. Massés devant leur télévision, ils commentent la campagne présidentielle diffusée par les chaînes nationales…
Qui est Mr X ? Combien pèse un café ? Que font les spectateurs dans le noir pendant la moitié de la séance ? Et Einstein dans tout ça ? En suivant pas à pas le déroulement d’une séance de cinéma, un nouvel éclairage est donné…
Une place dans le monde. La place des Capucins à Bordeaux. Place du marché. Place des « étrangers ». Place refuge, nourricière et sans sommeil.
D’une chanson contestataire, emblème des grands combats sociaux qu’a connu le pays occitan dans les années 60 et 70, puis symbole d’une recherche d’identité régionale et musicale dans les années 80 et 90, la chanson occitane est devenue citoyenne.…
In the coca heartland of Bolivia, slavery and liberation are still matters of living memory. In this twenty-minute film, we visit the town of Tocaña, where African descendents worked as slaves until 1952, and local people still perform dances rooted in their African cultural heritage. The film…
"Streams of Gold" tells the story of a filmmaker's journey to uncover his family’s past in the gold mines of southern Ecuador. This one-hour documentary traces the history of an American company's presence in an Andean mining town called Portovelo from the 1890's to World…
Theresa “Rose” Grosso made her way onto the FBI’s most-wanted list by mastering the art of escaping from maximum-security prisons. After 20 years of dodging detection, she almost mastered the art of living on the lam. In 1969, Theresa was convicted of murdering a bar bouncer in cold…
Our visit with Thomas Chimes (born 1921), one of Philadelphia 's most important contemporary artists, begins at the Philadelphia Museum whose collection inspired him as a school boy to become an artist. Here he was drawn to Thomas Eakins, a fellow Philadelphian, and to Duchamp and Van Gogh. Anne…
When photography was in its infancy, the American West was still a frontier; and, for a period of about fifty years, the two interacted in a complex and fascinating way. Dramatic subject matter in the West became accessible to photographers just when the newly-discovered wet-plate process enabled them…
"TO': Day of Days", the epic Oxbow trip to Tahiti where Laird broke the sound barrier of what was possible with tow surfing. The day-by-day, blow for blow account of this history making surfing trip and what has become known as 'the Millennium Wave'. (2000 / 28 minutes).
When Texas Goes Smart-on-Crime ! 'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders. Looks like rape,…
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…
