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Mother Earth

1991

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings. Evocations of forces that threaten the planet and all its inhabitants also offer avenues for reflection.

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That Way Madness Lies...

2017

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of an untreated schizophrenic.

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The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

2021

How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the regenerative food movement, and inspired an international crusade for change.

6.5

The (Dead Mothers) Club

2014

Three women whose paths never cross, yet are bound by the shared experience of losing their mothers during adolescence, exploring each one’s sometimes-complex relationship with her mother.

4.7

Hold on Tight

2011

A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like holding hands in public can carry, not only huge personal significance, but also the power to create social change.

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The Empty Center

1998

Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The effect of the changing economy and politics on the city and its inhabitants is echoed through their physical relocation to its outer edges. In 1990, squatters proclaim a socialist republic on the death strip. Eight years later, the new headquarters of Mercedes Benz are built in the same location. The film makes use of slow super-impositions to uncover a journey across changing architectural and cultural boundaries. "The Empty Centre" tries to give a voice and a history to those who continue to be marginalised by the simultaneous dismantling and reconstruction of the borders which they are trying to cross.

7.3

Daguerréotypes

1975

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.

5.7

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

2006

A documentary on a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean spies.

0.0

Weiss ist die Farbe der Verlierer

1974

Short film against the oppression of women. At first, differences in education are presented and then how the relationship between women and men looks like in the professional world.

0.0

Souls in the Sun

1981

Souls in the Sun takes an honest look at some victims of the world's neglect - a few individuals among the teeming masses of poor people.

8.0

Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back

2014

An inspiring documentary chronicling the rise, fall and resurrection of '80s metal band Quiet Riot. The career of Frankie Banali, the band's drummer, reached a serious crossroads when his best friend and bandmate died in 2007. Years later, Banali realizes he must forge ahead and make a new life for himself and his daughter and he goes on a quest to reunite the band and fill the immense void left by his bandmate.

5.0

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

2009

The story of the actor, writer and broadcasting pioneer, Gertrude Berg.

6.8

Sweetgrass

2009

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

6.9

My Country, My Country

2006

The director follows a Sunni Arab doctor as he prepares to run for the early 2005 elections in Iraq.

0.0

Abused by Mum: The Ruby Franke Scandal

2024

Ruby Franke's rise as a "momfluencer" with millions of followers hid a nightmare; when her son fled and alerted a neighbor about the abuse, police raided her home, rescuing her children.

5.0

H2Oil

2009

Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada's tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the global demand for oil. It is a film that asks: what is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada's richest province?

9.0

The Story of Mothers & Daughters

1997

This poignant documentary from directors Judith Leonard, Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg explores the rich complexity of mother-daughter relationships as told by women themselves in scores of candid interviews. Honoring the sometimes close, sometimes fractious, but always vital link moms share with their girls, this film celebrates how these relationships evolve in stages from birth through adulthood to the end of life.

4.0

Kristina Talking Pictures

1976

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist concerned about the environment, has a sailor lover named Raoul. The film, a collage work, an essay film, a fictional narrative and a documentary all rolled into one, is one of the most important independent American feminists films made during the 1970's.

6.3

O Seasons, O Castles

1958

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

0.0

Judgement in Hungary

2013

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers killed and seriously injured Roma children and adults. The state charged 4 men with committing the crime with racial motivation. This historical trial started March, 2011, and ended August, 2013 in Budapest. The 167 days of hearings was only documented continuously by our crew. We had exclusive permission to use multiple cameras in the court-room. The film is a classical chamber-drama, taking place in a small, claustrophobic court room, in the middle of Europe. What will be the outcome of the marathon, 3 year-long trial?

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Related Movie

Mother Earth

That Way Madness Lies...

The Seeds of Vandana Shiva

The (Dead Mothers) Club

Hold on Tight

The Empty Center

Daguerréotypes

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story

Weiss ist die Farbe der Verlierer

Souls in the Sun

Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Sweetgrass

My Country, My Country

Abused by Mum: The Ruby Franke Scandal

H2Oil

The Story of Mothers & Daughters

Kristina Talking Pictures

O Seasons, O Castles

Judgement in Hungary