An audience faverite at many leading documentary festivals< WE WERE HAPPY ONE DAY is a hommage to people who aim for the best despite ......., in a funny way.
The Ngurrara Canvas II is many things to many people. But to the Ngurrara people it is a map, made from memory, of a place where their ancestors lived for over 60,000 years. It is a direct connection to their land - a country where kartiya (non-Aboriginal people) could not live in, because the desert…
Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named “Laila”, she moved throughout the Apennines with and between fighting units, delivering information, transporting weapons, and taking part in battles. She…
A story of six Gay men that were born in the days of the establishment of the State of Israel. Their stories serve as the film’s background for the depiction of the clandestine and undocumented lives of homosexuals in Israel during the 1960-70s. From the time that their sexual identity was considered…
by Niki Velissaropoulou, 52 min Dimitra and Garifalia are teenage girls living in the stunning region of Halkidiki, Northern Greece. When an open-air gold mining project brought to the region by the Canadian company “Eldorado Gold Corporation” threatens to become an unprecedented environmental…
By the end of WWI, Ypres and its surroundings were completely wiped off the map. Thanks to German reparations money, Ypres would rise from its dust and rubble as a symbol of rebirth amidst the numerous graveyards replete with fallen soldiers. The Last Post has resounded every evening ever since 1928,…
We Will Win Peace goes behind the scenes of humanitarian advocacy and activism in the United States – via the forests and mines of the eastern Congo - to reveal the limits of good intentions, in an unexpected story that follows the lives of two Congolese miners as they react to the competing pressures…
Short video excerpts taken from the filming of the documentary We Will Win Peace, providing expert analysis and insights from Congolese and international academics, civil society leaders and miners themselves on artisanal mining in the eastern Democractic Republic of the Congo. Topics covered include:…
Was Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? Along with Warhol, he created the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s. His comic-based paintings reside in the greatest art galleries and can fetch more than $150 million. But some view this renowned artist as a plagiarist. WHAAM! BLAM! focuses upon…
Wolves are a highly controversial topic, triggering countless legal battles. The debate about wolves impacts our sense of justice, as we ask ourselves: why are wolves being killed in such large numbers? The controversy surrounding wolves has also come to test the scope of the Endangered Species Act.…
Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime. This tape was used to organize other offices to support the strike.
The Munich Show enjoys its Golden Jubilee Anniversary as they celebrate 50 years of one of the finest mineral shows in Europe. The Show theme for this year is gold and never before in history has such a collection of fine gold specimens ever been assembled. In their museum-quality exhibits, for which…
