LIVING WITH CORRUPTION
In this disturbing film, the BAFTA Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura reveals how corruption has become normal and accepted in Africa -- it is one of the root causes of Africa's many problems. Sadly, most aid money given by the West never reaches those it is meant to help; it gets siphoned off by corrupt governments. (more)
AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR
The incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren as primary caregivers has increased 30 percent since 2000. This film depicts such a situation as we see the daily life of a frail 77- year- old grandmother who is raising four grandsons aged 5-8. (more)
BALLAD OF GREENWICH VILLAGE
The artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York's Greenwich Village over many decades changed the face of American culture through their art and politics. This film portrays the important political and social movements that began in the Village: the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, the Stonewall Rebellion which sparked the Gay Liberation movement and many others. (more)
BIRD FLU WARS
The international scientific community has been monitoring the bird flu virus since 1997 when seven people died in Hong Kong. This films outlines some of the proposals suggested at the WHO to prevent a pandemic. (more)
CHAHINAZ:
WHAT RIGHTS FOR WOMEN?
Through internet interviews a young Algerian college student explores with other women the condition of women in the developed and less developed world. (more)
CITY WALLS:
MY OWN PRIVATE TEHRAN
In this disarmingly intimate and revealing film three generations of women in an Iranian family describe their struggles for survival within marriages founded on Iranian traditions. (more)
COMPASSIONATE EYE
Horace Bristol: Photojournalist
Horace Bristol shot some of the most significant photographs of the 20th century, compelling images that have become icons of our past. However, his photographs were lost for forty years (more)
CONCERT YIDDISH SOUL
Here is a documentary featuring the actual concert of the musicians introduced in Yiddish Soul. Lovers of Klezmer and Yiddish music will delight in hearing performances by vocalists Chava Alberstein, Myriam Fuks, Shura Lipovsky, Karsten Troyke, the KlezRoym ensemble and many talented accompanists. (more)
CRITICAL CONDITION
What happens when you're sick and uninsured? The unforgettable people in this film discover that it can cost you your job, health, home, savings, and even your life. Critical Condition puts an intimate human face on America's growing health care crisis by chronicling the struggles of a diverse group of uninsured Americans as they battle critical illness over a two-year period. (more)
THE CYBORG REVOLUTION
Cyborg technology is a revolutionary development in rehabilitation medicine. It allows the brain and nervous system to manipulate specially engineered devices that help people regain the use of impaired body function. (more)
A DEATHLY SILENCE
A Teen's Suicide
This powerful film examines the intellectual attraction of suicide to a vulnerable teen and the catastrophic impact on his family. (more)
FINAL CALL
Many of the active, healthy elderly people in this film are organizing for the right to end their lives before they are overtaken by frailty, illness or dependence. (more)
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Introducing himself as a middle aged, middle income man, Timo Harakka is a Finnish Michael Moore, though less abrasive. He sets out to track a small investment he made in a Far East Fund.He learns he is invested in 55 companies in the 'digital universe’ and decides to discover where his money has gone and what effect it has made in different areas of the world. (more)
THE
GENOCIDE IN ME
This intensely personal film traces the filmmaker’s search for identity
within the culture of her Armenian parents and in the context of the larger
multicultural society in which she lives. Weaving together archival footage
and interviews with elderly survivors of the Genocide, it creates a deeply
felt portrayal of a holocaust that the Turks deny. (more)
GOOGLE'S DEEP IMPACT
The film examines the tremendous influence the communication company Google is having on the corporate world as well as on our entire culture.(more)
HEARTS
This inspiring love story from Norway follows Kare and his girlfriend Maybritt, both of whom are affected with Down Syndrome. They go on dates, fall in love and become engaged. But the course of true love is never easy! (more)
HIGHLANDS TRILOGY
The newly released DVD collection (Papua New Guinea) ) includes 20-minute commentaries by the filmmaker which shed fascinating light on the process of filming a people who had no previous exposure to the white man.(more)
HOME DELIVERY
This film documents the lives of three women who for very different reasons have decided to have home deliveries with midwives. Two are African-Americans and one is French-born. Home Delivery allows the audience a profound and sometimes humorous look at women during an awe inspiring process (more)
I NAMED HER ANGEL
The film follows a 12-year-old Turkish girl, who undertakes the spiritual and physical training to learn ritual whirling, as done by the Whirling Dervishes. (more)
Despite the legal abolition of untouchability a half-century ago, the Dalits continue to be the target of systematic discrimination and comprise a highly disproportionate percentage of India's illiterate, landless and jobless population. (more)
ISLAM BEHIND BARS
No religion is growing faster in Western prisons than Islam. In the U.S. alone there are more than 200,000 Moslem inmates. They are mainly imprisoned black converts searching for an alternative to Christianity. (more)
JACKSON SANDWICH
Jackson was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at age 4. Now at age 9, thanks to early intervention, he is an accomplished second-grader, charming and gregarious. (more)
KOREA: THE UNFINISHED WAR
This film documents a war where neither side was victorious, a struggle that came very close to thermonuclear war, and that still resonates in the geopolitical machinations between East and West. (more)
In 1960 Collin Hanney, an explorer, discovered an isolated group of Mayan Indians who 400 years earlier had fled into the Mexican jungle to escape the Spanish invasion. His discovery thrust the Indians into the modern world. Now Hanney's widow returns and shows them the photos and films Hanney shot when he first encountered them.(more)
THE LAST GHOST OF WAR
Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War they are among several millions diagnosed by the Vietnamese as victims of Agent Orange. In this film, we meet several who are plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 US chemical companies. Attorneys, activists, scientists, and a military historian take us to a new battlefield. (more)
LAST STOP KEW GARDENS
Novelist, filmmaker and Cornell physics professor Robert Lieberman, an Americanized child of Holocaust survivors, revisits Kew Gardens, which in the 1940's and 50's was an immigrant "village" a few subway stops from the heart of New York City. (more)
THE LEGACY OF
ROSINA LHEVINNE
This documentary film offers an intimate and compelling portrait of the life and achievements of the legendary pianist and master teacher, Rosina Lhevinne: her years of study at the Moscow Conservatory of Music, her marriage to famous pianist, Joseph Lhevinne, her devastation following her husband's death and her recovery and stunningly productive life from age 65 to 96. (more)
LIFE ON THE LINE
Thousands of Central American migrants travel through Mexico in their attempt to try and make a life for themselves in "El Norte" (the U.S.). On their journey they encounter police abuse, robbery, extortion, rape and even murder at the hands of exploitive Mexicans. (more)
THE LONGING
The Forgotten Jews of South America
The Longing, set in Ecuador, tells the story of a group of ”conversos" attempting to regain their birthright. Their ancestors — Spanish Jews — were forced to convert during the Inquisition. (more)
LOOKING FOR CHINA GIRL
Since 1980 when China decreed that couples should have just one child, there has been an alarming disproportion of boy children over girl children. The Chinese government believes that within 15 years as many as 40 million men will be permanent bachelors. (more)
A LOVE APART
This warm, intimate documentary follows a young Tuareg girl in Niger who is about is about to marry a man she has never met. It documents a tradition that is vanishing quickly. (more)
MANDY'S CHOICE
Mandy's husband, Josh, was in a motorcycle accident which left him in a seven day coma with death imminent. Mandy, desperate to preserve her tie to her beloved husband, asked that his sperm be harvested so that she could have his child. (more)
MATZO & MISTLETOE
Filmmaker Kate Feiffer was six years old when her father told her she was Jewish. Since she celebrated Christmas and never attended synagogue, this information came as a surprise. In Matzo & Mistletoe, Feiffer interviews a fascinating cast of characters, and uses archival footage, illustration, and clips from television shows and movies to ponder the paradox of American secular Judaism. (more)
MONKS IN THE LABORATORY
Western researchers are turning to Eastern spiritual practitioners for illumination on the workings of the mind. They want to learn how meditation affects attention and consciousness, and how it controls the emotions. (more)
THE MOTHER'S HOUSE
Astonishingly intimate, this festival film is a record of four years in the life of a charming and precocious teenager growing into womanhood in a township outside Cape Town. She faces not only life in a “colored” community beset by gangsterism and drug abuse, but also the toughness and anger within her own family. (more)
MR. WONG'S WORLD
Mr. Wong is a wealthy business man who returned to China from Canada. He has made it his mission to rescue historic buildings of old Shanghai that would otherwise fall prey to the wrecking ball during an unprecedented building boom. (more)
MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA
On a tiny island in the Caribbean, a woman seeking to bring her rapist to justice finds death, instead. (more)
NORTH KOREA:
PORTRAIT OF A RED DICTATOR
This exclusive portrait is the first to portray North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il, with interviews of North and South Korean politicians, as well as close relatives and former employees who have fled the regime. Jong-il's regime has made North Korea a nuclear rogue state threatening the security of the world. (more)
OF FATWAS & BEAUTY QUEENS
A beauty pageant in Nigeria was the flashpoint for a cultural, political, and religious war in this impoverished country with its crumbling infrastructure. (more)
THE OLDEST MOTHER
ON THE BLOCK
Many women over age forty soon realize that their own eggs have expired. These women decide to use eggs donated from a younger woman. This film follows three older women, as they struggle to achieve a pregnancy and later, as they cope with the unique problems of being an older mom. (more)
ORHAN PAMUK
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s best-known modern novelist and winner of the Nobel prize in 2006, became a pariah in his country overnight for speaking out about the Turkish role in the Armenian genocide. He insists the nation should know the truth about its history, and that there must be freedom of speech. (more)
AN OX FOR A BABY
This amazingly up-close documentary brings us into the lives of an Ethiopian couple, Yezina and Mesagnow. Yezina suffers from a fistula which causes her urine to constantly leak.Two million African women share her fate because tradition forces young girls into early marriages when their bodies are too immature to bear children safely. (more)
PASSION AND FURY:
The Emotional Brain series
A four-part series that looks at the primal emotions that are generated in the brain, and how nature and nurture combine to make us feel the way we do. The parts are Anger, Fear, Love and Happiness. (more)
In America, there are more people per capita in prison than any place in the world and the sentences are longer than else where.This is the story of a small California town that tried to revive its lagging economy by building a prison -- with unanticipated consequences. (more)
SINESIPHO: Why Must I Die
The epidemic of AIDS in South Africa is huge and the government has been lax in addressing the problem.This film shows how an HIV- positive mother, Busi Maqungo, living in a shanty town in South Africa, has become an AIDS activist. (more)
STEEL WAR
The film uses the recent conflict over the worldwide steel market, dominated by the U.S., Brazil and the European Union, to explore the "economic war" generated by globalization. (more)
STORMS OVER CHINA
Global warming, combined with Chinese agricultural practices, few rainstorms, and violent winds have produced increasingly intense sandstorms in northwest China, leading to desertification. (more)
SWORN VIRGINS
In a mountainous area of Albania, an ancestral code of laws -- observed to this day -- placed women in the bottom rank of society. But there is one loophole. The ancient laws allowed certain women known as "Sworn Virgins" to take an oath in front of their clan, announcing their intention to remain virgins. (more)
TESTING HOPE
High school students living in the impoverished black townships outside Cape Town, South Africa, prepare all year for the challenging exam known as Matric. The film explores what lies ahead for students who pass Matric and what awaits those who do not. (more)
TODAY'S MAN
Adventures of a Young Man with Asperger Syndrome
Director Lizzie Gottlieb began filming her brother Nicky when he was 21 and had just been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome - a high functioning form of autism (more)
TWO SQUARE MILES
When a proposed multinational coal-fired cement plant threatens to change the character and possibly contribute environmental waste to the small city of Hudson, N.Y., its citizens are galvanized into action. (more)
VISIONING TIBET
Visioning Tibet chronicles the passion of ophthalmologist Marc Lieberman, founder of the Tibet Vision Project, to end preventable blindness in Tibet . He educates Tibetan doctors to perform cataract surgery. (more)
WHERE IS LOVE IN THE PALM GROVE?
Mamoun, a quirky thirty-five year old Muslim man living in Skoura, Morocco, has never been married, although his culture demands it . Considering the separation of the sexes in Muslim society, the obsession with virginity, and the custom of arranged marriages, the film asks, how can love blossom? (more)
YELLOW OX MOUNTAIN
This is a documentary that portrays the artistic endeavors and the personal journeys of two artists, Zhang Hongtu (b. 1943) and Zhang Jian-Jun (b. 1955), who are part of the Chinese contemporary art community of New York. (more)
