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- The daily routine at a Brazilian court, including the people who work there: lawyers, judges and accused.
- Men, most of them naked, talk about their penises. The men range from 17 to 70+, all are from the U.S. of diverse races. Several are artists or performers. Some are gay, others straight; two are transgender. One is paralyzed below the chest. The interviews are edited around themes: discovery, early sexual experiences, masturbation, size, oral sex, libido, performance, disease and maladies, maturity. A lexicographer discusses language, especially slang; a few archival educational-film clips divide the topics. Images and stories mix with facts and philosophical reflection. The usually private becomes public.
- A humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
- A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.
- The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
- Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
- The myth of return. In 1966, Yash and Sheel Suri leave India for a temporary stay in England while he burnishes his resume as a doctor. He buys projectors, tape recorders, and movie cameras, and sends one set to India beginning a 40-year exchange of tapes and Super 8 movies between his family in India and his household near Manchester. We watch their three daughters grow and we hear increasingly plaintive calls from Yash's parents and sister to return home. In 1982, it's back to India where Yash sets up a practice. A return to England, one daughter's marriage, another's move to Australia, and the third's film project complete the 40-year story. Yash still loves his homeland.
- A 3000km journey up the Danube river to the heart of Europe.
- Paris 2002. Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq...).
- In 1932 the army and "citizen militias" in El Salvador brutally crushed an uprising of peasants in western El Salvador, killing 10,000 people. Survivors share their harrowing memories, many for the first time.
- A documentary showing the tensions between the multinational crew aboard a rusting diamond dredging ship off the coast of Namibia.
- Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personnal history of France.
- "Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse's 'The Red Balloon,' the Lumieres' 'The Arrival of the Train to the Station.' Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago." [from the video container]
- Putting an end to your life and sparing yourself, and your closest family, agony? Switzerland is the only country where associations quite legally provide suicide assistance to people at the end of their lives.
- Describes the coalition formed by fundamentalist U.S. Christians and militant Israeli Jews to destroy Islam's third holiest shrine, the Dome of the Rock, and build a new Jewish Temple in its place.
- Architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City, went to Lagos regularly to research the type of urbanity that is produced by uncontrolled, explosive population growth. In this documentary filmed over two years, director van der Haak wanted to take a look inside the head of Koolhaas and through his eyes, a look at Lagos. She says, Lagos is "a city that holds up a mirror to him [Koolhaas], a city that is endlessly flexible, terribly creative and constantly improvising". Using small digital cameras, the filmmaker documented Koolhaas documenting Lagos to grasp and convey a sense of the new urban life that was being invented there.
- Post-riot South Central LA through the lens of a pawnshop.
- Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
- This documentary, as entertaining as it is informative, demonstrates and celebrates the ways in which the human body can be used as a musical instrument. Animated by the heartbeat, our bodies are naturally responsive to internal and external rhythms, and music is an intrinsic part of the human experience. THE HUMAN HAMBONE highlights the talents of a wide variety of both amateur and professional musicians and dancers throughout North America, from front-porch artists to stage performers, who use every part of the human body--head, feet, hands, mouth, arms, legs, torso--to make music.
- Through interviews with Arabs and Israelis, this documentary explores the legacy of Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said.
- The history of Ireland through its music and the impact this has had on the country's struggles.
- KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens and high-tech spaces, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions. KOCHUU, which translates as "in the jar," refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small, enclosed physical spaces, which create the impression of a separate universe. The film illustrates key components of traditional Japanese architecture, such as reducing the distinction between outdoors and indoors, disrupting the symmetrical, building with wooden posts and beams rather than with walls, modular construction techniques, and its symbiotic relationship with water, light and nature. The film illustrates these concepts through remarkable views of the Imperial Katsura Palace, the Todai-Ji Temple, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Sony Tower, numerous teahouses and gardens (see link below for complete list), as well as examples of the cross-fertilization evidenced in buildings throughout Scandinavia, and shows how 'invisible' Japanese traditions are evident even in modern, high-tech buildings. KOCHUU also features interviews with some of Japan's leading architects as well as Scandinavian contemporaries including Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn, Toyo Ito, Kazuo Shinohara, Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa (see link below for complete list and bios). KOCHUU is a compelling illustration of how the aesthetics of Japanese architecture and design are expressed through simple means, and also shows that the best Japanese architecture, wherever it appears, expresses spiritual qualities that enrich human life.
- An exploration of the life and ideas of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), arguably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century.
- On May 17, 1968, three Catholic priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Their poetic act of civil disobedience helped galvanize an increasingly disillusioned American public against the Vietnam War. Investigation of a Flame is an intimate look at this Sixties protest within our current times, when foes of Middle East peace, abortion, and technology resort to violence to access the public imagination. Lynne Sachs combines volatile, long-unseen, archival footage with interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan and other members of the Catonsville Nine, encouraging viewers to ponder the relevance of civil disobedience and the implications of personal sacrifice today.
- Follows representatives of Nokia as they examine working conditions at a Chinese factory that manufacturers products for the company.
- The ostensible subject of this remarkably beautiful film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away. The film's larger subject, however, is the disappearance of Japan's traditional culture, the end of a centuries-old way of life.
- Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.
- This film takes the viewer on a journey through possible and impossible architecture projects - from the beginning of the 20th century to today. From concrete illusions of grandeur to round grass covered dwellings under ground. The viewer will meet world famous architects and visionaries like Buckminster Fuller and Le Corbusier and experience their visions and ideas of how to build us a better world. With the help of animations unrealized projects come to life in this documentary that shows astounding visions of a world - as it could have been. Since the end of the 19th century industrialized man has been confronted with new kinds of possibilities and problems, all of which in one way or another are the consequences of a storm of technological progress. Amidst the smoke and wars, architects and artists saw early on that this was a world full of possibilities, with plenty of room for visionary ideas. They were motivated and driven by the problems of the day, be it a shortage of housing, urban decay or pollution. Their visions brought changes in our ways of living and dwelling that challenged our concepts of the good, the true and the beautiful. In this documentary we encounter the Anthroposophist head quarters in Switzerland, the functionalist cities of Le Corbusier and Archigram's projects where pop-art meets architecture. We also meet the self-taught inventor Buckminster Fuller and his light weight constructions, and Antti Lovag - the protector of round houses. Also we visit Habitat 67 - a building conceived from LEGO, Superstudio and their world without objects, Paolo Soleri's crystal like cities in the desert, and ecological housing under ground. Great Expectations is a film about architecture projects and visions which have brought changes in our ways of living and dwelling that challenged our concepts of the good, the true and the beautiful.
- An examination of the rise to power, election, overthrow and exile of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
- DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India, which will displace up to a million people.
- A portrayal of the singular experience shared by people of her generation -- those living Cuba's utopian dream during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- On the 10th of December, 1981, according to a 1992 investigation commissioned by the UN, units of the Atlacatl battalion, an elite battalion of the armed forces of El Salvador, along with a few other Salvadoran miiltary units, entered the town of El Mozote, El Salvador, and executed virtually the entire population, an estimated 794 people - men, women, and children; an exhumation in one building found 131 victims under the age of twelve, several infants between six months and a year. Witnesses of this event, however, survived. A very very lucky, very very few fled. Patry and Lacourse' film interviews two of the survivors, and tells the story of the massacre, in their words, besides interviewing a number of other people connected with the event, and with an alleged subsequent cover-up by the US administration at the time, allegedly related to congressional hearings approving further aid to the government of El Salvador. Interviewed at length: Rufina Almaya. Almaya was living in El Mozote at the time of the massacre; she reports seeing the military cut off her husband's head when he tried to escape; she escaped by kneeling down to pray, then creeping away through the bushes to hide until dark. Wilson Guevera Berera. Berera was born in El Mozote, and was eight years old at the time of the massacre. He reports that after witnessing other children being killed, he ran for it; shots fired at him missed. An unnamed civilian who reports he was working as a support worker for the military company which entered El Mozote. He reports witnessing rapes and executions, and the burning of the church, the children, inside, screaming. Raymond Bonner, former New York Times reporter. Bonner visited the site shortly after the massacre, and broke the story in the US on January 27, 1982. Later, in the face of official denials from the government of the US (the official line was there had been no massacre, that this had been a confrontation between the military and a guerilla force, this while aid packages for El Salvador were before the US Congress), Bonner's coverage was widely criticized as 'credulous'. The Times removed Bonner from the assignment in August 1982. Declassified documents later, however, confirmed the State Department had reason at the time to suspect the massacre had occurred. Also interviewed: Elliott Abrams, Assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights in 1982. Lieutenant Ricardo Castro, former Salvadoran miltary, exiled to the US. David Morris, US military advisor to El Salvador, 1980-1981. Morris took a team into El Salvador to train the Atlacatl battalion in 1980. Mercedes Doretti, from an Argentine team of forensic anthropologists, who conducted a forensic exhumation on the site in 1992.
- A year in the life of a principal at a rural Japanese elementary school.
- Set under the background of the Salvadoran Civil War, the story of the November 16, 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter in El Salvador. Salvadoran Army soldiers killed them at their residence on the campus of José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA El Salvador) in the capital city. The film juxtaposes the story of the priests, told by Jon Sobrino their surviving colleague, and one of the murderers, Jesuit-educated Lieutenant Espinoza. It's also an homage to the murdered priests and a study of the power of religious commitment.
- A filmmaker's search for his family past in the Warsaw Ghetto has been transformed into a personal meditation on the interaction between history, memory and pictorial representation.
- A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
- Three lesbian sangomas (traditional healers) tell the stories of their lives in Soweto, South Africa.
- Made Over in America is a filmic foray into the cultural complex surrounding America's fascination with surgical makeover. Bringing together an often funny, sometimes touching array of voices, Johns Hopkins University researcher and MIT Press author Bernadette Wegenstein and experimental filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes join forces to explore the contradictory and at times anxious motives of the producers and consumers of American makeover culture. From their journey emerges a profound question: what have our bodies and our selves become in an age of seemingly limitless transformation?
- A documentary about the temptations of gambling, and the day to day challenges of living in Las Vegas.
- Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said speaks about "his illness (incurable leukemia), his work, Palestine and politics, his life and education, and his continuing preoccupations.
- Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for future prosperity.