If you walk down Manhattan’s Houston Street, you probably won’t notice this restaurant — unless you wonder what all the people are standing in line for. It’s famous, yet most people have never heard about it.
All Tied Up is a program committed to providing opportunities for young teens, regardless of their background or family circumstances. This short highlights the program’s founder and his drive to educate and empower his students.
Elisha McArthur is a lifelong raft guide and single mom. Her teenage goth daughter, Charlotte, has no interest in rivers at all. This short is an intimate portrait of an eclectic family dynamic, teenage angst, and the way the nature can help a mother and daughter reconnect.
Tessa, a 7-year-old girl born with limb difference, was adopted as an infant from an orphanage in Ethiopia by a family in Austin, Texas. Tessa wants to swim, and with practice, perseverance and passion, she shows the endurance of the human spirit by competing in her first swim meet.
Ceramic artist Charles Smith of Mobile, Alabama, has a lot to say. His Afrocentric sculptures and art help tell the real story of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, going back centuries to honor the ghosts of the past.
Less than 16 years after the end of slavery, the Black community of Tuskegee, Alabama, started an initiative to educate an improvised community of recently emancipated slaves. This is the story of how a community came together under the leadership of Booker T. Washington to embark on a unique experiment in self-determination and economic freedom.
Literally raised in the shadow of Alabama BBQ institution, Dreamland, Roscoe Hall set out to travel the country and learn from the best chefs in the best restaurants — all while honing his artistic vision. Returning to Alabama in the 2000s, Roscoe dug into his Alabama roots and his own history to create paintings now featured in galleries around the world.
Sylvia Swayne runs for Alabama State House Representative for District 55, making her the first transgender person to run for office in the state of Alabama.
On the morning of April 28, 1958, a bag of dynamite was discovered at Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama, during a series of attacks on Jewish institutions across the South. The bomb’s fuse stopped one minute short of detonating, but it set off a ripple effect through the community that impacted how many responded to the Civil Rights Movement.
Some Indigenous people were never forced to leave what is now known as Alabama, and many across the continent are still intimately connected to their sacred homelands. Meet three Indigenous people who are answering their ancestors' prayers to reclaim traditional lifeways and protect the environment.
When we lose a loved one, each of us experiences a complex mixture of feelings and memories that must be resolved. Especially if the deceased was of great importance in our lives and had a complex character. A documentary essay about a personal attitude to the tragedy, based on the use of family chronicles and the dreams of the author.
The film explores man's desire for spiritual elevation and unity with the divine against the backdrop of the influence of modernity and digitalization on the traditional monastic way of life.
Documentary film “Shukhrat Abbasov. Close-up" is dedicated to the memory of People's Artist of the USSR, film director Shukhrat Abbasov (1931 - 2018). Friends and colleagues of the Master (Ali Khamraev, Elyer Ishmukhamedov, Valentina Gushchina, Shavkat Abdusalamov, Maxim Pavlov, Farrukh Zakirov, Odilsha Agishev, Vladimir Vorobey, Natalya Arinbasarova) share their contributions.
The film is about a unique social experiment. Will the appearance of the city change if janitors, roofers and other housing office workers are introduced to art and sent to the Russian Museum for educational instruction? “Make it beautiful” records the progress of the experiment throughout the year.
In 2019, at the international exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Russian Pavilion hosted an exhibition by Alexander Sokurov dedicated to the parable of the Prodigal Son. In 2020, the exhibition was presented in the White Hall of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. This film tells about the exhibition's journey from creation to implementation.