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Nikolaus Geyrhalter is one of world cinema’s most renowned and celebrated documentary filmmakers. Famous for his style which draws on calm, carefully framed wide shots with an eye for geometric...
THE GOOD BREAST explores breast cancer as ritual, presenting the rise of the mastectomy in the U.S. as a modern form of breast sacrifice. Veteran breast cancer surgeon Dr. Lauren Schnaper believes that fear...
Syria is a single-party dictatorship country, ruled since 1970 by Hafez al-Assad and, following his death in 2000, by his son Bashar. Despite the lack of any significant oil reserves, this nation is both a...
BREAKING THE ICE, THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD sheds new light on the remarkable, little known story of the abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd. Living in Windsor, Ontario, she fought...
For many children, learning how to live in the world begins in a pre-school classroom. Children with developmental disabilities are no exception. This documentary follows four-year-old Ronen, a boy with...
This film traces the development of Louis Althusse’s thought and his influence on French philosophers like Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and Barthes. Featuring footage of the only TV interview he gave (to RAI)...
This film about Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman consists of an hour long conversation with the director about her work. Akerman describes her first experiences with avant-garde film in New York, and, in...
n early 2011, people around the world tuned into Al Jazeera to watch the Egyptian revolution in real time. Meanwhile, rival broadcaster Al Arabiya was also offering near continuous coverage, with cameras on...
A portrait of the Assad regime, from its origins to 2011. During the 1970s, Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, turned Syria into one of the world’s most secretive and repressive dictatorships. In 1982, he...
BITTER MONEY documents China’s rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou, one of the busiest cities of eastern...