An essential and highly influential classic for years to come, restored by the Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst (Berlin). One of the first documentary works by Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva, Chircales is the product of two of the most prominent and rebellious voices of the New Latin…
In Spanish, ladrillo means bricks. It used to mean boom, construction, production, speculation. Today, ladrillo means crisis: disused clay pits, factories that are closed half of the year, ghost-towns, subprime mortgagers facing eviction. Bricks shows how the life of a simple commodity can be the mirror…
Des carrières d’argile abandonnées aux crédits immobiliers impayés, les briques espagnoles incarnent le triomphe puis la faillite économique d’un pays. Usines qui ferment la moitié de l’année, ville-fantôme curieusement habitée,…
BRICKS IN MOTION is a feature length documentary that explores the lives of individuals involved in the hobby of creating stop-motion animated films with LEGO® bricks and other building toys. Filmed in five countries around the world, the film is a journey through the creative life and struggles…
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Poplar Bluff Missouri Also known as the show me state.
Compares homelessness in Zambia and the Philippines with London Homelessness – Gerald Priestland looks at this problem in Zambia and the Philippines, comparing the nature of their problems and solutions with London, which had the highest number of homeless people of any western city. If we can…
On May 7th, 2011 a young man named Shane Bitney Crone tragically lost the love of his life, Tom, to an accident. Because they weren't married or prepared for the unexpected, Shane lost all legal claim to Tom after he died. Tom's family banned Shane from the funeral and he was unable to say…
On May 7th, 2011, a young man named Shane Bitney Crone tragically lost the love of his life, Tom, to an accident. Because they weren't married or prepared for the unexpected, Shane lost all legal claims to Tom after he died. Tom's family banned Shane from the funeral and he was unable to say…
The first film to ever document the tradition of bride kidnapping in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, where half of all rural marriages are still carried out this way.
This is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central Asia. When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry, he often abducts the woman he has chosen. Typically, he and several friends hire a car, stake out his bride-to-be's…
A film by Natalie Assouline Israel 2008 The desire to be beautiful is still strong, no matter what the circumstances. The women giggle and pass around fragments of a broken mirror. This is a world which exists only behind prison walls, where a lullaby whispered lovingly in a baby's ear echoes…
