Among the 6,000 or so languages in the world, an average of 2 languages disappear each month. With 96% of the world’s population speaking only 4% of the world’s languages, what does it mean to speak one’s mother tongue? In other words, what do you lose when you lose your native language?…
Director: Leo Erken | 2004 | documentary | human interest | 55 min An inside look into the tulip industry in the Netherlands and those who stand to profit (or lose) from it. The tulip boom of the Golden Age has returned to North Holland. Almost four hundred years after tulips were first imported…
Director: Leo Erken | 2002 | documentary | portrait | 51 min For three years photographer Leo Erken filmed his colleague Eva Besnyö, 54 years his senior. Eva Besnyö, the Dutch photographer of Hungarian descent, lived the last years of her life in the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren, The Netherlands,…
Directed by Christian and Michael Blackwood During his days as a top member of the Pop Art movement in Britain, Jones had evolved a singular genre of imagery: totemic forms of torso-less legs, sheathed in vinyl, which have become his artistic "icons." His graphic works, drawings, paintings…
Thirteen years after a vicious civil war forced him to flee his childhood home of Sierra Leone, director Raouf J Jacob’s returns to find meaning in a place once forsaken by the rest of the world. Travelling across the country, he explores the sensitive environmental, social and cultural issues…
Director Jacob Hatley's intimate documentary finds Levon Helm at home in Woodstock, NY, in the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years.
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) -- and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is filmmaker Kevin Rafferty's (The Atomic Cafe) acclaimed documentary depicting one of the most legendary games in the history of sports.
EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a revealing look inside the kitchen of renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria.
Whores' Glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's Death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution.
Through extensive interviews with prominent industry representatives and environmental activists, Hall carefully presents the various solutions being proposed to the vexing issue of overfishing.
Director: Nirit Peled | 2013 | documentary | human interest | 68 min An Israeli living in Amsterdam investigates why fans of the Ajax soccer team have appropriated the nickname 'Superjews' – use Star of David hats, Israeli flags and songs like 'Hava Nagila.' We meet Ajax…
