Who are Romani musicians? Enigmatic gatekeepers of a party atmosphere endowed with musical blood? Or is this all just a big myth? Three filmic chapters the ethnographic documentary Hopa Lide tackles this question in unorthodox ways. The roving camera takes us to the heart of intimate backstage moments…
A film by STEVE THOMAS. Amal Basry watched “Titanic” at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. 18 months later she was on a people smuggling boat which sank between Indonesia and Australia. Amal survived by clinging for 22 hours to the floating body of a dead woman. Now Amal…
The island of La Réunion is an endless playground for athletes. It’s on one of its trails that we meet Lucas, a young boy with autism, and his father, Jérôme. This extraordinary father has taken on the challenge of competing in multiple major triathlons to raise awareness about…
A love story about a bond that cannot be broken, even while facing death. A couple battling ALS travel the country and live their lives unencumbered until ALS nearly claims the husband’s life, changing their lives as they know it.
In urban America, the bush of Africa, the war zone of the Congo, and in closed nations there are women who are living outside their own cultures, society, and comfort level to care for orphans, build schools, liberate addicts, feed the poor, and love the broken. These ordinary women are reaching into…
A film by Inka Stafrace. This is an eloquent and passionate story that brings a necessary human dimension to a highly politicised crisis. Australian filmmaker Inka Stafrace courageously journeys through Israeli military incursions in the West Bank to discover for herself some of the human truths behind…
An award-winning feature documentary on one of the most perplexing and polarizing conflicts in the world. An American Christian with a deep love for Israel sets off on a journey across the Holy Land to confront his indifference toward the Palestinians and to search for the deeper truths behind the…
Michal Bat-Adam was the first Israeli woman film director and the only one who has been creating films since 1970s. The intimate portrait of the trailblazing filmmaker follows her shooting a new low-budget film while exploring her relationship with her husband of 40 years, the film director Moshe Mizrahi,…
Die Band Pegasus auf dem Weg zum ersten Album Dokumentarfilm, 2007, 77 Minuten Pegasus heisst die neue Hoffnung am Schweizer Pophimmel: Das junge Quartett aus Biel hat soeben seine erste CD bei einem Major Label veröffentlicht. Bis dahin hatten die vier 18-Jährigen bereits einen weiten…
For many years, the Hudson River, like so many waterways across the U.S., was treated like an infinite waste barrel, a receptacle for poisonous chemicals, hazardous waste and trash of all descriptions. During the past forty years, thanks to a committed group of environmentalists and their agencies, the…
A film by TOM ZUBRYCKI. A refugee from the Sudanese civil war, Zacharia (one of the ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan), lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He desperately wants to do something for his former village, now in the newly created nation of South Sudan. His dream is to build a much-needed…
Ninety miles east of Seattle, Washington, the arid Yakima Valley produces roughly 1/3rd of the world's hops. From multigenerational farming families to cutting-edge lab research, Hopped Up is a 90 minute deep dive into the science and art of breeding and farming hops.
