Elections
It’s election time for the student body. Four groups of students, with differing opinions and views of the world, create proposals, debate campaign strategies, and strive for improvements in school.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Alice Riff
Transhood
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These…
A Good Day to Die
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
Chez Jolie Coiffure
Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sabine’s stories and the customers’…
Sing, Dance, Act: Kabuki featuring Toma Ikuta
Follows Ikuta’s challenge and his friendship with Matsuya Onoe.
Who Invited Them
We shared a small apartment in Hamburg for 10 years. Just finished school and moved out with our parents, we were able to let off steam together in the big…
They Are We
The story of an Afro-Cuban group who kept alive songs and dances their ancestor had brought aboard the slave ship from Africa. They were so specific that around 200 years…
The Latin Explosion: A New America
With more than 50 million Latinos now living in the United States, Latinos are taking their seat at the table as the new American power brokers in the world of…
The Sacred City
This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.
There Goes Our Neighbourhood
The locals of Waterloo, Sydney, stand their ground and fight back as property developers and politicians try to take over the suburb.
Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements
For some aging music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The Replacements are rock and roll defined. Gorman Bechard’s remarkable history of the ‘Mats takes us from…
Decade of Fire
As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and…
Unraveled
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team…