On the cusp of her 100th birthday, Risa Inglefeld looks back on a life full of hard knocks and shares her secrets to getting up again with joy and humor. A meditation on life, aging, love and the secret to living with joy.
The Stars at Night explores the connections between astronomy, mythology, and original storytelling. Join us in one of America’s last dark skies to discover light pollution's impact on our environment, culture, and the stories we tell. After premiering at the Austin Film Festival, producer…
On March 28th 1981, 10.000 people take to the streets. The city of Judenburg demonstrates for the preservation of their steel plant. The demonstration is a start, a late attempt to avert the threat of job loss. The film shows how the international steel crisis affects Austria.
The Stimming Pool is an experimental—at times fantastical—hybrid feature film, co-created by a collective of autistic artists, the Neurocultures Collective, and filmmaker Steven Eastwood, who invite you into a neurodiverse world within the undulating logic of neurotypical environments.
The Stolen River is a riveting and immediate story of the historic moment when the Savuti Channel in Northern Botswana suddenly withered away leaving what was once a beautiful wetland to bake under the African sun. But with this intense drying up, a whole range if interactions start to emerge. A hippo…
This is the story of a spectacular case of robbery that is changing the art world. An iconic temple statue, looted during the chaos of the Cambodian civil war, turns up in Sotheby’s auction catalogue 40 years later – with a price tag of three million dollars. But New York’s attorneys…
The Stone River traces the destiny of European stone workers who, at the beginning of the 20th century, crossed the ocean to settle in the town of Barre, Vermont, where they were opening the biggest granite quarries in the world. Within a few years, most of them were decimated by silicosis. At the end…
On an Eastern slope overlooking the Shaker Swamp of New Lebanon, New York, a grouping of unusual stone ruins may represent an early ceremonial site left by Native Americans who understood that the area was blessed with healing springs and rare medicinal plants that were later used by European settlers…
“Trees and rocks will teach you things that you would not hear elsewhere » The film directed by Raymond Achilli took for itself the above sentence by Saint-Bernard of Clairvaux. Phrased with inspiring silences and a lighting that shapes the architecture and brings it to life, this document…
Christianity was born in Palestine two thousand years ago. From there it spread throughout the Middle East and to the rest of the world. Yet many are unaware Christians still live in the land. For more than 60 years the Palestinians, Christians and Muslims, have suffered displacement, expulsion, wars,…
Present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina is a country still reeling from the civil war in the early 90s. The Bosnian economy never recovered, and the country remains divided. In order to cope, many towns have transformed themselves into unique tourist destinations that bring together history, religion, politics…
Imagine you are alone, on North America’s Highest Peak (Denali), trying to break The Female Fastest Known Time (FKT). You must travel 38 miles on a glacier to 20,310 feet- in less than 21 hours. How would you fare in this frigid, lifeless landscape? Where would your mind go? In her pursuit for…
