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Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Geoff Dixon’s art reflects his vision for our future unless we take immediate action – he was working as a conservationist long before the word became part of our everyday vocabulary. His paintings are rich with colour, commentary, and a challenge to all of us to wake up and think about the future of our wildlife, our flora and fauna, our country and our planet. New Zealand-born and now living and working in Australia, in north Queensland, Geoff...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Boulder, Colorado is emblematic of predominantly white communities that profess an inclusive ethic but live in a segregated reality. THIS IS [NOT] WHO WE ARE explores the gap between Boulder's progressive self-image and the lived experiences of its small but resilient Black community. Launching from a viral police body cam video, the film explores myriad intersecting issues to reveal deeply entrenched, if not entirely intended, structural inequalities...
4) OK
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Refugee Reception Center for migrants in Eisenach (East Germany), the director gets to know 21-year-old Doris S., who moved to West Germany and returned. When her mother died in 1961, Doris went to live with her father. Driven by her desire to see the world, she ended up working as a hostess at the "Pa-pa-Club" at an American army training ground in Baumholder. This film interview tells the story of one person's fate in a divided Germany.
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Hindi
Description
The sacred city of Varanasi, situated on the holy Ganges, ‘the river of life’, is the revered destination for death for Hindus since time immemorial. With legendary funeral pyres burning non-stop for over three millennia on the river bank, the city’s status is founded on the belief that dying in Varanasi breaks the repeated cycle of rebirth. Filmed across four years, 2018 - 2021, DEATH IN THE CITY is an intimate portrayal of ‘The City of Life...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This compelling, character-led series follows an ensemble cast of resolute, charismatic, and forthright citizens of a bushfire-ravaged community as they fight to rebuild their lives, rehabilitate their environment, and re-invent their community. And they’re in a race against a time to make sure the horrors of the last bushfire season never happen again.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A filmic portrait of a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa, at the center of which is the Afro-German mother Sarah. She wants her young daughter to have the relationships she lacked as a child, so she travels with her to Africa, where her own father and the child's father are waiting for them. During this visit, Sarah's father, Eulidio, remembers his time as a Mozambican contract worker in...
9) The French
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
Français
Description
“For me, this film encapsulates everything I loved and love about the tennis of that moment; and in the hands of the great and singular William Klein, it is at once a gripping sports page, a fascinating piece of reportage, and a work of art.”—Wes Anderson William Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest,...
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Day in, day out, Barbara sells screws at a store in the East Berlin Market Hall. She is frustrated about having to tell her customers most of the time: “Ham wa nich!” (We don’t have that!) In the evening, she is the loud and wild singer of the legendary East Berlin avantgarde and punk band Das Freie Orchester. Playing music with her friends helps her escape the monotony of her job, convey feelings of unfulfillment with everyday life in East...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
How Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court, and a power struggle in the GOP, McConnell’s rise and role pushing the judiciary to the right, and America’s polarized democracy.
12) Time Theorem
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant grandparents creating a cinematic firework of analogies.
13) God & Country
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Christian nationalism is the belief that America should be defined as a Christian nation, with government adherence to this ideology. GOD & COUNTRY looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself. Featuring prominent Christian thought leaders, GOD & COUNTRY asks this question: What happens when a faith built on love, sacrifice, and forgiveness grows political tentacles,...
14) Our Body
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face, even the filmmaker herself.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Bertrand Tavernier’s César-nominated three-and-a-half-hour tour through French film history, was too short to introduce audiences to all that he wanted to share. In this new eight-part series, the acclaimed director guides us through a roster of filmmakers both influential and forgotten.
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. With determination, wisdom and kindness, Senator Sinclair remains steadfast in his belief that the path to actual reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people requires understanding and accepting often difficult truths about Canada’s past and present....
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Gentrification is not a new phenomenon. But what was once a process of gradual change has turned into a nightmare of radical transformation and displacement. New York City is currently undergoing a period of "hyper-gentrification" unlike anywhere else. There Goes the Neighborhood takes a look at the communities and activists that are fighting back to save the diversity and culture of their city.
18) Queerstralia
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Join award-winning comedian and professional lesbian Zoë Coombs Marr, as we wipe away the straightwashing and reveal the untold and frankly fascinating Queer history of Australia.
19) The Good Life
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Colombian village of Tamaquito, told against a global backdrop of rising energy consumption being driven by the pursuit of growth and affluence.
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