In the developed world, illegal immigration is a hotly debated political issue. From the eyes of the world's very poor, it is an excruciating personal decision, made to make life a little bit better for one's self and one's family. Kingsley is 23 years old, and lives in a two-room house…
50 min. documentaire over tangodansers in Buenos Aires (1990). Spaans gesproken, Nederlandse ondertiteling.Duur: ca 50 min. Filmmaker Jan van den Berg reisde eind jaren ’80 naar Argentinië met het Amsterdamse danspaar Wouter en Martine, op zoek naar de roots van de tango. Zij spraken met…
Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22) spent nine months of cold, Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island by the coast of Northern-Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other cast-off materials that…
MEET MORGAN ÅGREN. ARTIST. MUSICIAN. DRUMMER. HE LIVES IN SWEDEN. What do Frank Zappa, Devin Townsend, and Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah have in common? They all re-invented rock music. And they all selected Morgan as their drummer. Yet his “intentionally broken” and complex…
NOTE: Currently only available in SD. Promises is a compelling, refreshing, and humorous vision of the Middle East conflict through the eyes of seven children growing up in Jerusalem. Living no more than 20 minutes apart, but locked in separate worlds, the film explores the boundaries that lie between…
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the costliest — and one of the deadliest — natural disasters ever to hit the United States. Of the one million homes that were destroyed, over 70 per cent belonged to the poor. Two years later, some 86,000 displaced…
Mariotto o Luigi e non Romeo. Giannozza o Lucina e non Giulietta. Siena o Udine e non Verona… E’ possibile che la storia d’amore più celebre di tutti i tempi abbia una base storica? Shakespeare si è limitato a cambiare nomi di persone e luoghi oppure ha lasciato che la…
"A GREAT FILM." - Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent "A FILM THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times "I LOVED IT AND I NEED ALL OF YOU TO SEE IT." - Dr. Oz, The Dr. Oz Show Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most,…
Through the intimacy of a personal perspective, we are taken to Tafo, a small town in the Akim area of Ghana. This was where the filmmaker spent his early childhood, before moving to Denmark with the family at the age of five.The family situation in Tafo provides a strikingly effective micro-cosmic view…
Reunion is a creative documentary exploring spirituality and our perception of the spiritual. Using a mixture of fiction and documentary genres, archive footage and animation, we are directed to look once again at nature and our relationship to it, and at our relationship towards the question of life…
Bed of Flowers is an evocative and contemplative documentary revealing the inspiring experience involved in the creation of a unique theatre production. Depicting the creation of the Lancashire (UK) based Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company's production of their show, The Girl Who Cut Flowers, Bed…
“An oasis of creativity blooms in Spark. Since we can’t all attend Burning Man, we can be thankful for Spark, which is probably the next best thing!” - Andy Webster, The New York Times "Spark: A Burning Man Story" is a compelling behind-the-scenes look into the cultural…
