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Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age

2022

Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age

2022
8
This documentary by Léa Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist plunges us into the vortex of online misogyny and documents hatred towards women. This bleak opus, reminiscent of a psychological thriller, follows four women across two continents: former President of the Italian parliament Laura Boldrini, former Democratic representative Kiah Morris, French actor and YouTuber Marion Séclin, and Donna Zuckerberg, a specialist in online violence against women and the sister of Facebook’s founder. This tour de force reveals the devastating effects such unapologetic hatred has on victims, and brings to light the singular objective of cyber-misogyny: to silence women who shine. Some targets of cyber-violence will crumble under the crystallizing force of the click. Others, proud warriors, will stand tall and refuse to be silenced.
Just Like You: Anxiety + Depression

2022

Just Like You: Anxiety + Depression

2022
10 brave kids, 2 Emmy award winning journalists, 1 clinical psychologist at Columbia University and 1 determined mother take on the fear and stigma plaguing the mental health community, leaving us enlightened, empowered and equipped to either live life or lift up life with these challenging and even life threatening conditions.
Hockeyland

2022

Hockeyland

2022
5.7
In Minnesota’s unforgiving North Country, hockey is life. Over the course of a season, two rival high school programs—one an emergent dynasty, the other steeped in a proud legacy—strive for a coveted state championship. With the hopes of their towns behind them, boys on both sides cope with the pressures of adolescence along with the added burden of bringing glory to one of the country’s most hockey-crazed communities.
Hollywood Signs

2022

Hollywood Signs

2022
1.5
A documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
Franklin

2022

Franklin

2022
Eighth-generation Tasmanian and environmentalist Oliver Cassidy embarks on a life-changing solo rafting trip down the beautiful yet remote Franklin River. His goal is to retrace his late father’s 14-day expedition to attend the blockade that helped save the World-Heritage listed national park from being destroyed by a huge hydroelectric dam project in the early 1980s.
Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

2022

Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

2022
The first Muslim woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now the film, Until We Are Free, tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves. The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadi – her marriage, her home, even her Nobel Prize medallion – but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future for the women of Iran.
Code Red: Youth of the Nation

2022

Code Red: Youth of the Nation

2022
With more school shootings in 2021 than any year on record, Code Red: Youth of the Nation exposes the fatal cost of our children's education. The documentary seeks to restore the safety of our schools by providing the tools and solutions to put an end to these tragedies.
Snoop Dogg: Uncaged

2022

Snoop Dogg: Uncaged

2022
9
From Crime to Primetime. For over five decades rapper, songwriter, and media personality Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. aka 'Snoop Dogg' would go onto global fame, with tens of millions of record sales and a career in movies and television.
Bon Jovi | No End in Sight

2022

Bon Jovi | No End in Sight

2022
7
Since the dawn of hair mousse, the New Jersey-based band formed over 40 years ago and quickly took the world by storm. With more than 100 million records sold worldwide, Bon Jovi continues to rock on.
If You Kill, Call Me

2022

If You Kill, Call Me

2022
8
Refined, often millionaires, drug trafficker lawyers evolve within a territory where law, organized crime and corruption meet. They are smugglers, the visible actors of the collusion between criminal organizations and the legal, political and financial structures of countries crushed by narco-violence. This investigation penetrates into the depths of drug trafficking through a little-known angle, that of justice, and aims to deconstruct the preconceived idea of the drug trafficker as the sole responsible for violence. "If you kill, call me" debunks the myth of drug trafficking by penetrating, through drug trafficker lawyers, into the heart of the legal system to reveal its deep complicity with organized crime.
Women of Theatre, New York

2022

Women of Theatre, New York

2022
A documentary film about the life, times and experiences of eight theatre artists and a theatre critic in the theatre of New York City.
How to Train Your Bear

2022

How to Train Your Bear

2022
Tatyana Minenko saves orphaned polar bear cubs from death in the clutches of their older brothers, and from severe Chukchi frosts and hunger. But what’s next for these cubs? Zoo life or return to the wild? How much effort does it take to save one polar bear cub from death? And why is it even harder to leave an orphan bear free? The people of the north value their freedom above all else. That’s how they want to see the owner of this land – the polar bear.
Casa Susanna

2022

Casa Susanna

2022
8
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity. It is a story full of noise and fury, rich in extraordinary characters, including the famous Susanna, who had the courage to create this refuge that came to be known as Casa Susanna.
A Compassionate Spy

2022

A Compassionate Spy

2022
6.2
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
Shabu

2022

Shabu

2022
5.2
Fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother’s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. He has a summer to make amends before his grandmother returns from a vacation in Suriname.
Egypt's Stolen Treasures

2022

Egypt's Stolen Treasures

2022
The Jackie Stiles Story

2022

The Jackie Stiles Story

2022
It follows a girl from a small Kansas town as she becomes a basketball legend in the Midwest.
The Extraordinary Tale of Samson

2022

The Extraordinary Tale of Samson

2022
A retelling of the story of Samson and his glorious head of hair.
Unicorn Town

2022

Unicorn Town

2022
8
Despite having just 40,000 residents and limited financial resources, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns have been able to compete at the highest level of football in all of Europe. But as more money floods into the sport, coaches and fans must face the question: has this team become a relic of the past or can their remarkable culture propel them beyond the constraints of reality?
Why on Earth

2022

Why on Earth

2022
7.3
Travel the globe to experience the vital connection between humans, animals, and our planet through stunning, rarely before seen footage which exposes the effects that deforestation and the illegal trade of threatened and endangered species have on elephants, lions, sharks, orangutans, and more. By caring for these beautiful animals, we begin a healing process that will eventually help us all.