An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of community, art, and cats. This award-winning documentary The New York Times called "vibrantly human" follows Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani's emotional journey from homeless to home. This 80-year-old Japanese American…
This is a unique story of faith, courage and magical thinking. A story of how the dream of an elderly English teacher finally comes true with the help of a rickshaw driver, a lapsed buddhist monk and a journey in to the high Himalayas. It’s ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ meets ‘Lost…
I didn't make this to go viral. I made it so the truth wouldn't disappear. When doctors said there was only one week left to live, hope seemed out of reach. But in that final hour, something extraordinary happened. This documentary tells the true story of a life standing at the edge of death—and…
遺伝子工学の分野では科学者の95％は企業側に属し、独立した科学者は5％もいないと言われる。 二人の科学者アーパッド・プシュタイとイグナシオ・チャペラは、遺伝子組み換えの危険性について重要な発見をし、それを発表したことでバイオ産業から激しい攻撃を受け、職を奪われた。 攻撃を受けながらもたたかう彼らを根底で支えるものは何か。科学に自由はあるのだろうか。 監督：ベルトラム・フェアハーク／製作：デンクマール・フィルム／ドイツ 日本語版製作・配給：小林大木企画 https://ko-okfilm.com/denkmal/scientist/
In a temple dedicated to Hanuman in Ahmedabad, a priest flouts convention by marrying couples who are shunned elsewhere: mostly those who have eloped from families who disapprove of their union, but also, even more controversially, same-sex couples. A portrait of a staggeringly progressive and liberal…
"Voices of Iowa: Pearl Harbor" is a powerful documentary that honors the Iowans who experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor and the generations shaped by its legacy. Through firsthand accounts, archival footage, and thoughtful storytelling, the film preserves personal memories of courage, sacrifice,…
Om sandhed, fjendebilleder og tilgivelse. To naboer lever side om side, men har ikke hilst på hinanden i 15 år. I stedet har de bygget, ikke bare én, men to høje hække mellem sig. De er uenige om, hvad der skete en dag for 15 år siden, hvor to unge piger løb…
Peli and Nina are a couple from a Roma community in Transylvania, cradle of old marriage rituals. Parents to a little girl, they strive to conceive a son to inherit the family’s badge, the chalice. Lest they do so they will resort to sex selective abortion or their arranged marriage might break.
Anshan Diaries uses a real family’s life as its backdrop. Director Charles Xiuzhi Dong casts his grandpa, the revolutionaries of the left wing, as the film’s lead, investigating and retracing his family saga spanning three decades of Chinese post-cultural revolution history.
After finding a family portrait on my phone one evening in Germany, I felt a longing for my hometown. I wanted to make a film about it. But how can you talk about your family portrait without talking about the reality they inhabit? They’re the sum of the people and environment they come from. By…
Near the shrine of Bari Imam on the outskirts of Islamabad, internally displaced Pakhtun families rebuild their lives in a densely layered social landscape shaped by migration, labour, and family obligation. OutSwing follows a group of adolescent girls from this community as they form a cricket team…
In Lebanon there are more than 100 untouched mass graves dating back from the Civil War, and thousands of families awaiting a bone to bury. The Soil and the Sea unveils the violence lying beneath a garden, a school, a cafe, a hotel, and other unremarkable landscapes. As the camera interrogates these…
