A way out is a documentary film about three Chinese teenagers who have different family backgrounds，financial conditions and living environment striving to find their future under the same education system. The three subjects, one from Beijing, a metropolis; one from Xianning, a small town of Hubei Province…
ALL PROFITS FROM THIS FILM WILL GO TO GAZAN FAMILIES A multi-award-winning film, A Wedding in Ramallah is a compelling and intimate observational documentary set in the West Bank town of Ramallah. It uses the dramatic events surrounding the wedding of a young Palestinian couple as a way to explore…
In 1978, Jean-Pierre Gorin invited Godard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at the beach. Some filmmakers & creatives came to visit him. They all stayed at our house on the beach. I did some videotaping. A few years later, friends told me…
Sunny San Diego is the place to be if you like lots of Red Trolley, BNSF and Amtrak action. We'll also see new "Surfliner" GM F59PHI engines as they speed under the international airport approach, traveling south to the historic Santa Fe depot, downtown. We're caught in a rare downpour…
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French philosopher Voltaire once cautioned, "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." As the powerful new documentary A Whisper to a Roar demonstrates, Voltaire's warning has never been truer than it is today. Directed by Ben Moses (Taking the Hill: The Warrior's…
Filmmaker Kyle Schickner hits the road, crisscrossing America to examine racism's hold on the nation and himself in this honest, humorous documentary.
Sexual violence against women has long been a firmly established part of war through thousands of years of patriarchally oriented history, regardless of the region, nationality, culture or ideology involved. In 2006 the director and cameraman traveled to Bunia, in the eastern part of the Democratic…
For over 30 years baseball has symbolised Cuban defiance and national pride. ‘Cuban rebel Ball’ explores the deep roots that baseball has in Cuban popular consciousness, and looks to a future where economic privations threaten the collective spirit so studiously nurtured by the state in its…
Cricket runs as a common thread through Indian social, economic, political and religious life. The game is played everywhere, from pavements to vast stadiums. And even the pavement cricket draws a crowd. In its cutting between the stadium and the street, the film stresses the all-pervasive relationship…
This episode exposes Rugby's role in South Africa at the time of apartheid, finding optimism for the long road ahead while addressing fears over the possibility of sporting equality in an unequal society. Part of a four-part series looking at sport and nationalism in Brazil, Cuba, South Africa…
When Chile was 22, she was kidnapped from a pub in Hungary and sold to a group of Israelis who trafficked for prostitution. Today, twenty years later, Chile is another woman, a woman who has managed to get out of the drug circle and is celebrating 10 years of cleaning, volunteering at the Levinsky Clinic…
