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1361) Freedom's Fury
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hungary’s 1956 Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks and guns. Two weeks later at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian and Soviet waterpolo teams would meet in a showdown that is know as "the Bloodiest Game in Olympic History."
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The former EU commissioner of health, Mr John Dalli, recently left his post having been accused of being in the pocket of ‘big tobacco’. Two Danish journalists, Mads Brugger and Mikael Bertelsen, travel to Malta expecting to uncover proof of a vast conspiracy against Mr Dalli, when a secret source steps forward, claiming to possess documents and recordings. Mr Dalli attempts to strike a deal with the source, taking them on a disturbing, thrilling...
1363) Opeka
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Malagasy
Description
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father Pedro Opeka, an iron-willed Argentine priest, inspires hope for an entire nation by teaching people living in Madagascar's largest landfill to build a highly functional city in the capital of their failing African country.
1364) Our Story
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. OUR STORY documents the ongoing Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the health and well being of communities surrounded by these extractive industries. OUR STORY emerges from a long-standing collaboration between local Diné leaders in the Greater Chaco...
1365) Chez Jolie Coiffure
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Recruited by a Lebanese maid agency, Sabine leaves Cameroon and embarks for Lebanon. After many years of servitude, she escapes to Belgium, but her arrival there is complicated by the fact that she enters illegally, by way of Greece and Syria. She settles in Matonge, the African quarter, where she becomes the manager of the beauty salon CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE. Here, patrons, many of them undocumented immigrants, are not only be made to feel beautiful...
1366) Building Bombs
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Offering rare archival footage and a deceptively upbeat atmosphere, this Oscar nominated film delves into the lives of a community gripped by the ultimate weapon of mass destruction – the hydrogen bomb. Pastoral Aiken, South Carolina is home to the Savannah River Plant, the epicenter of America’s top-secret atomic bomb-making apparatus. Within this nuclear company town, directors Mark Mori and Susan Robinson blow open a cover-up of massive radioactive...
1368) Bananas
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A multi-layered courtroom drama about the global politics of food, the dynamics of 1st and 3rd world nations, and human rights at its simplest through a landmark legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The school brought in the staff of Gender Spectrum to provide training for teachers and administrators as well as an age-appropriate curriculum for students. During this step, everyone involved was empowered to look at their own personal confusion, bias and feelings around gender. Parents are brought into the mix next, and add to the spirited discussion about creating a safe place for all of our children to be themselves. A week of classroom activities...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This compelling new documentary focuses on the sexual dilemmas and difficult life choices young girls face as they come of age in contemporary American culture. Challenging long-held myths about girlhood, the film draws on the insights of girls themselves to explore and shed light on their actual lived experience as they navigate our increasingly hyper-sexualized society. The voices of a diverse range of girls are supplemented with accessible analysis...
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