The Colour of Olives

The Models of 'Pickpocket'

A documentary that follows up on what happened to the three principle actors in Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket."

2003

Herb & Dorothy 50x50

A follow up to award winning documentary 'Herb & Dorothy', the film captures the ordinary couple's extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they clo

2013

Bitch Academy

A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.

2007

Maestra

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were wo

2012

Neither Allah, Nor Master!

Filmmaker Nadia el Fani explores secularism in the predominantly Muslim country of Tunisia before and after the fall of Ben Ali.

2011

Banaz: A Love Story

This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family fo

2012

The Muslims Are Coming!

The Muslims Are Coming follows a band of Muslim-American comedians as they visit big cities, small towns, rural villages, and everything in between to

2013

Joe Leahy's Neighbors

Joe Leahy and his complicated relationship with the Guniga people in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

1988

Bullfight

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

1955

Gowanus Canal

Sarah J. Christman continues her 16mm ecological studies with Gowanus Canal, in which contamination and compression of refuse intimate a stultifying s

2013

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets t

2005

Assume Nothing

Many of us assume that there are only two genders and that being female or male follows from the sex of our biological bodies. Focusing on the art, ph

2009

Saint Death

In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by th

2007

The Truth Be Told

The Truth Be Told is an epic-scale documentary that follows three and half years in the life of Supinya, a media activist who was sued by the Shin Cor

2007

Space Junk 3D

50 years after launching our dreams into space, we’re left with a troubling legacy: a growing ring of orbiting debris that threatens the safety of ear

2012

Winter

A journey through North Russia and Siberia where people have to cope with one of the world’s harshest climates, Zima portrays a reality where the boun

2013

Caprichosos de San Telmo

A portrait of the working class musicians and dancers of Buenos Aires's San Telmo neighborhood, who have channeled the city's many cultural influences

2011

Baby, It's You

Six adult siblings and the vicissitudes of fertility, infertility, and the desire - met and unmet - for a baby. Focusing on one couple's attempt to be

1998

The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart

Elaine Shepherd’s classic BBC documentary, introduced and narrated by John Peel. Completely wonderful, a 50 minute joy: reviews, articles, blog posts

1997

They Called Us "Les Filles du Roy"

The history of the roles of women in Quebec society, beginning with the women shipped from France to the New World by the King to populate the colony

1974