Documentário que investiga a inédia, um fenômeno antigo e presente em diversas tradições (orientais e ocidentais), que é a abstinência da ingestão de alimentos sólidos, e em alguns casos de líquidos também. Percorrendo países…
Bellringers have been called “the invisible music makers”, a community banded together by the passion for making those “whacking great sounds” that are often taken for granted when they ring out from church towers. “Ringing Every Day And Sunday” focuses on a group…
In 2008, Rodrigo Vazquez made ‘Child Miners’ profiling the lives of 10 year old Alex and his best friend, 13 year old Jorge. Over the past six years, Vazquez has returned regularly to film the boys as their lives have taken radically different paths. Jorge managed to escape the mines and…
Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates have not declined and illegal drugs are more available - and cheaper - than ever before. At the same time, the costs of the drug war are staggering. More than one trillion dollars have been spent. More than 50,000 SWAT raids occur each year. Hundreds of thousands…
A global revolution is underway to obtain what UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Barack Obama call ‘the final frontier in human rights’: the universal decriminalization of homosexuality. Homosexuality is forbidden in almost half of the world. Out of 196 UN member states, there are 7…
For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. DARK DAYS explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious,…
This aerial adventure through Burma is a stunning and revealing journey, opening up the world of a people who've remained isolated for over half a century. Offering a stark contrast to the world outside, it presents a beauty unattainable in the developed world. But it also offers a unique perspective…
The settler movement is deliberately sabotaging the peace process, making the existence of a Palestinian state impossible. Settlers are no longer a minority fringe. They now control three major government ministries. On the ground, settlers wage daily war on the Palestinians who remain. They harass…
AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every…
Raw Opium is a feature length documentary about a commodity that has tremendous power – both to ease pain and to destroy lives. The opium poppy is the raw material for heroin, fuelling a vast criminal trade larger than the economies of many countries. Raw Opium is a journey around the world…
A documentary by Oliver Dickinson Language: French Subtitles: English Synopsis: An encounter with François, Vincent, Marie and others, who reveal the hardship of their daily work in France over the past three decades. Interviews include experienced workers from industrial meat processing,…
Español / Deutsch / German Subtitles: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/emotionmovie Imagine a world where the trapped emotions, fears, anxieties and unprocessed life experiences we hold in our bodies are the source of everything that ails us. That’s the world we live in. Now imagine a world…
