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Shooting Women

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generatio

2008

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and ch

2014

Lost and Found

Lost and Found depicts a life of a man with no homeland. 10 years ago Konstantin G fled the persecutions of homosexuals from Moscow to Finland. He liv

2003

Last Hijack

Documentary that follows the lives of two pirates and their community on the Somali coastline; what are the incentives of the pirates, why did they be

2014

Haru, Island of the Solitary

In early 1970s, the graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä had seen enough of stative visual art and purchased a film camera from Japan. She filmed the gam

1998

Children of Wind River

A film made by Victress Hitchcock and Ava Hamilton in 1989 on the Wind River Reservation for Wyoming Public Television.

1989

What Can I Tell You

A portrait of three generations of wonderfully eccentric Italian American women living in a small town near Boulder.

1978

Refuge

A documentary about the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London.

1972

War for Guam

The story of the native people of Guam, the Chamorros, who remained loyal to the U.S. under a brutal Japanese occupation only to be stripped of much o

2015

Dance for All

2007

Seeking Mavis Beacon

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for

2024

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his agonizing fall in disgrace in the 1980s; and his s

2017

The Fabulous Ice Age

For decades, American touring ice shows dominated family entertainment with their dazzling production and variety acts. This documentary honors them t

2013

She's Real (Worse than Queer)

A document of the Riot Grrrl and Queercore scene in the 1990s, the film has been screened at film festivals around the world, written about in zines a

1997

It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill in the UK

In 1993, Bikini Kill toured the UK with grrrl associates Huggy Bear. Lucy Thane made a documentary about the trip, also featuring appearances from the

1993

1912, Breaking the Silence

Afro-Cubans played a leading role in the fight to free Cuba from Spanish domination; as part of that struggle, slavery was abolished. Nevertheless, as

2010

Tondo, Beloved: To What Are the Poor Born?

Virgie's family feeds on the fishes that lurk under the industrial ships of North Harbor. Their alternatives are packs of tasteless gelatin found in t

2012

Boris Ryzhy

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the film

2008

Aerial

"Touches on elemental images; air, water, (and snow), earth and fire (and smoke) all come into it." - MT

1974

Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the Co

2007