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City of Two Springs

2019

City of Two Springs

2019
In 2017, Mosul was liberated after three years under IS control. The battle to reclaim the city had razed it to the ground and displaced thousands of civilians who are now trying to return home. Told through the parallel stories of Ala' and a senior UN figure leading international efforts to rebuild the city, this powerful film profiles the efforts to raise a city, and a people, from the rubble.
The Inflated Jungle

2015

The Inflated Jungle

2015
A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. They are different cultures in the frantic friction of our time, it is a generation of young people born from the meeting of both cultures who are hanging before the mirages of a foreign world.
Opeka

2020

Opeka

2020
7
Pedro Opeka declined an opportunity to play professional soccer in his native Buenos Aires and realize his childhood dream. He chose instead to become a missionary and live in one of the poorest countries in the world. The son of a bricklayer, he convinced destitute families living in Madagascar’s largest landfill that he could teach them how to build their own houses and, in the process, build their dignity. After 30 years of construction, fighting increasing poverty and political instability, Father Pedro has created a highly functional city within this dysfunctional island nation. His mission is to prepare the children he saves to one day save their own country.
Cat People

2019

Cat People

2019
A documentary that poses the question of how we as humans coexist with cats by exploring the eclectic lives of devoted cat lovers. We'll journey from America to a small island in Japan to learn and explore various human/feline relationships.
Woodstock: 3 Days That Changed Everything

2019

Woodstock: 3 Days That Changed Everything

2019
7
Woodstock started as a music festival but became something more. Its mix of music & ideals resonate now more than ever.
A Century of Dreams

2017

A Century of Dreams

2017
A Century of Dreams is a feature documentary about the oldest Slovenian inventor, Peter Florjančič, who has recently celebrated his 100th birthday. In the film, the controversial innovator gives a first-hand account of, in his own words, a life as thrilling as Hitchcock’s films. Florjančič considers himself a hedonist whose inventions have given him a luxurious and exciting life.
You and Me

2019

You and Me

2019
Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.
Sick School

2019

Sick School

2019
6
The students at Frank P. Long Elementary School have been getting sick.
Wanderlust: Female Bodies in Transit

2016

Wanderlust: Female Bodies in Transit

2016
5
An autobiographical documentary by two women travelling from Egypt to Germany, this film explores the experience of the female traveller as they focus on their own perspective of crossing places and spaces.
Women's Voice - India's Choice

2019

Women's Voice - India's Choice

2019
10
Surviving Vegas: A Buck At A Time

2014

Surviving Vegas: A Buck At A Time

2014
An eclectic group of people scratch out a living in Las Vegas by dressing up as bizarre characters and begging tourists for tips to pose with them for photographs.
My Name Is Pedro

2020

My Name Is Pedro

2020
10
This film explores what public education meant to South Bronx Latino maverick educator, Pedro Santana, and what he, in turn, meant to public education.
Chasing the Jet Stream

2019

Chasing the Jet Stream

2019
7
Marc Hauser is a visionary. Or is he mad? A record-holding skydiver, Hauser has a grand ambition: to become the first man to jump into a hurricane force jet stream at over 8,000 meters. A big risk, but with potentially huge rewards. Hauser wants to show the power of the jet stream as an energy source, which he believes could solve the global energy crisis. As Hauser's preparations take shape, the scale of his challenge becomes clear.
Scattering CJ

2019

Scattering CJ

2019
When seemingly happy, travel-infatuated CJ Twomey violently ended his own life at age 20, his family was plunged into unrelenting grief and guilt. In a moment of desperate inspiration, his mother Hallie put out an open call on Facebook, looking only for a handful of travelers who might help fulfill her son’s wish to see the world by scattering some of his ashes in a place of beauty or special meaning.
Life Without Basketball

2018

Life Without Basketball

2018
9
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to become the first Division I athlete to play basketball while wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.
Naked Mole Rats

2019

Naked Mole Rats

2019
For years, researchers have overlooked the naked mole rat, an elusive rodent that lives underground. But now they believe they may help humans live longer, healthier lives. Follow scientists around the globe as they study these remarkable rodents in labs and in their natural habitat, tracking their mating habits, testing their blood, and decoding their genome in an ongoing quest to combat age-related illnesses and even aging itself.
1.5 Stay Alive

2015

1.5 Stay Alive

2015
1.5 Stay Alive is part music video and part factual. In it, popular Caribbean musicians express their experiences with hurricanes, tropical storms and rising seas by composing and performing songs about climate change. Intertwined are insights by experts about effects of a 1.5 degree temperature increase . The film visits Belize, Costa Rica, Trinidad Tobago, Haiti, Honduras, Miami and Louisiana
The Fire Within

2002

The Fire Within

2002
Gritty, raw and very real, The Fire Within is a compelling feature-length documentary chronicling a year in the life of long-term AIDS survivor Bob Bowers.
The Answer to Cancer – der andere Weg

2018

The Answer to Cancer – der andere Weg

2018
Kumu Hula: Keepers of a Culture

1989

Kumu Hula: Keepers of a Culture

1989
A film about the art of the hula explores Hawaiian dance traditions going back to 500AD when Polynesians first arrived in the islands. Those traditions have been passed along from generation to generation by kahuna (priests and sages) and kumu hula (master teachers). In this film, shot at exotic locations throughout the islands, Vicky Holt Takamine and other respected kumu hula reveal ancient traditions that have survived, flourished, and (where appropriate) evolved in spite of attempts by Nineteenth Century missionaries, plantation owners and US Marines to repress Hawai'i's indigenous culture. Together, these two films present Hawaiian art and life as few outsiders have seen it: rich, expressive, colorful and utterly unique. In 2015, both films were transferred to HD video from their original 16mm and stereo audio masters and lovingly restored.