«An intelligent, very well - made documentary that is simple, heart - wrenching and, despite its subject matter, astonishingly beautiful.» VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL «Daniel Schweizer prend la suite des Tristes tropiques de Lévi - Strauss, soixante ans plus tard.»…
"A Mentsh" (full title: Boris Dorfman – A Mentsh) is a movie shot entirely in the Yiddish language. It's set in the former multinational city of Lviv, Ukraine, and the first part of a planned Yiddish trilogy (Lviv, Tel Aviv, New York). Lviv was a centre of Jewish life for more than…
"Convento is Hallucinogenic, No Drugs Required" -Eric Kohn, Indiewire "Jarred Alterman emphasizes oddball lyricism in the one-of-a-kind "Convento" -Ronnie Scheib, Variety Prima ballerina Geraldine, photographer Kees, and their two boys, Christiaan and Louis, left Holland…
The events of March '68 are still somewhat obscure in Poland. The political background is known, as are the film archives, and press coverage. However, little is known about how it was to grow up in Poland of the sixties as a Polish Jew, or as a Pole of Jewish origin. How it was to be a kid in the…
The events of March '68 are still somewhat obscure in Poland. The political background is known, as are the film archives, and press coverage. However, little is known about how it was to grow up in Poland of the sixties as a Polish Jew, or as a Pole of Jewish origin. How it was to be a kid in the…
Before World War II, Lapy was a town of about 4000 residents, among them some 630 Jews. In the summer of 1943 the Nazis began the last transportations of Jews from the Bialystok region to the Treblinka death camp. The town of Lapy was one of several train stations on the way to Treblinka. Cattle trains…
Die Fortsetzung der Erfolgsdoku „Die große Rheinfahrt“ entführt Sie in die Ära der Dampfschifffahrt am Rhein, für das Rheinland eine der turbulentesten Epochen seiner Geschichte. Sehen Sie seltene Filmaufnahmen aus den Jahren 1896 bis 1960, als gigantische Dampfboote…
Upon becoming the father to triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology. Woven together with expert interviews and portraits of people who have intimate relationships with technology, "Welcome To The Machine" takes the conversation away from the business of technology…
Sharon et Sharona sont les derniers éducateurs de la communauté juive indienne Bene Israel, installée dans la région de Bombay depuis 2000 ans. Profondément sionistes, ils sont par ailleurs dévoués à leur communauté et ses besoins. Vont-ils…
'Flying Sheilas' is a unique documentary about 8 Australian female pilots, depicting their extraordinary flying careers and the visual spectacle of where they were fortunate enough to live and work in Australia. These fascinating pilots, many household names, talk about their experiences…
Sharon and Sharona are the last educators of their Indian Jewish community, the Bene Israel, which has been residing in the Bombay region for 2000 years and is now disappearing. Genuinely Zionists and concerned by their daughters future, they are also committed to their community's needs. Whose…
‘Pilot Fatigue’ is the story of the multi billion dollar global aviation industry transporting people around the world 24 hours every day, There is a very real and growing problem of pilot fatigue along with the all too real consequences when something does go wrong. ‘Pilot Fatigue’…
