Universally recognized yet frequently discarded, since its creation in the 1970s, the Monobloc plastic chair has been the world’s best-selling piece of furniture. With more than a billion units in circulation worldwide, this deceptively bland piece of furniture was originally conceived by designer…
Twenty years ago, Ahmet Necdet Çupur left his village in south-eastern Turkey, against his parents wishes. Now, he is back. But this time as a filmmaker documenting his siblings’ struggles against the same oppressive family culture that drove him away. Zeynep is a teenager who dreams…
Weaving together footage from over a quarter of a century, Rocío follows the family of undocumented Mexican immigrant and Harvard University student Dario Guerrero as they struggle to stay together in the face of his mother's terminal illness and the punishing constraints of U.S. immigration…
The untold story of Project Cassandra, launched in 2006 by the Drug Enforcement Administration to investigate how Hezbollah turned cocaine trafficking and money laundering to make billions of dollars to finance its military and terrorist activity, and how the U.S. administration aborted the operation…
Al Pacino ist ein Mysterium. Er ist Feuer und Eis zugleich. Seine Anziehungskraft ist animalisch, seine Blicke zum Fürchten. Aus dem Ghetto der New Yorker Bronx hat er es auf die große Bühne geschafft – vom Broadway ab nach Hollywood. Als Michael Corleone in „Der Pate“…
This series of six live conversations was recorded between October 2020 – April 2021 delving deep into the work of RESTORE, The Forgiveness Project's award winning prison programme. In conversation with the storytellers as well as a participant and former officer, these enquiries, like the…
The Comic Strip Hits 100 is a marvellous celebration of the art of the comic strip. Narrated by the American novelist Jerome Charyn, and featuring rare interviews with some of the masters of the art form including Moebius, Schuiten and Franck Pé, The Comic Strip Hits 100 traces the evolution of…
From Auschwitz to Jerusalem tells the story of Jewish children, hidden children, who were often baptized during the war in order to survive the genocide. At the end of the war, many of these children, now orphaned, were recovered by the Jewish Agency and placed in gathering camps in Belgium. A long –…
Nicolas Godbout / 2022 / 79 min. / Canada / FRANÇAIS / Canada SYNOPSIS Premier long métrage de Nicolas Godbout, LES FONTAINES SOURDENT aborde le renouveau du conte au Québec à travers l’univers particulier des conteurs de Saint-Raphaël de Bellechasse, à…
Set over the 2018 mid-terms, this charming music documentary from the directors of The Ballad of Shirley Collins retraces the path of an iconic song-collecting trip from 1959 - Alan Lomax' Southern Journey. A heady mix of politics, social comment and rapturous roots music old and new, the film is…
***EDUCATORS, email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. Directed by Brooke Pepion Swaney US | 2021 | 66 minutes | Color | English -- “Lost birds” – a term for Native children adopted out of their tribal communities. Right after the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978…
The Caribbean 'Searching for Sugarman', Miguelito traces the unexplained disappearance of an eleven year old Puerto Rican salsa singer in 1973 and the rediscovery of his life, his music, and the world he inhabits decades later.
