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Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War II, brought to life for through animation. Official Selection at the **Sheffield Documentary Festival.** Official Selection at the **Annecy Animation Festival.**
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the Royal Christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who still have their muscle tone.. Winner of Best Animation at the Irish Film and Television Awards, Official Selection at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Galway Film Festival, and...
3) Afuera
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a Latina struggling to thrive at the intersection of her transgender and immigrant identities. A short film that packs a punch, AFUERA follows a day in the life of Jennifer, who finds herself caught between her need to be herself and an ultimatum from her boyfriend Pedro. Official Selection at the **Los Angeles Film Festival** and **Frameline Film Festival**.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The unforgettable story of two Somali national soccer team friends chasing their dreams in the face of impossible odds. MEN IN THE ARENA is a survival story, a human rights story, and a rare sports journey principally shot and produced in Kenya, Somalia, and the United States. MEN IN THE ARENA captures the Somali story through the eyes of footballing friends bound by a shared dream to inspire their countrymen. What happens to them is nothing short...
5) Wave
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Written by Academy Award winner Benjamin Cleary (*Stutterer*), this is the quirky story of Gaspar Rubicon, who wakes up from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language, baffling linguistics experts from around the globe. A funny yet heart-breaking story of a very isolated person. Winner of Best Short Film at the **Irish Film and Television Awards**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
Publisher
Speak Up Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Undetermined
Description
What Matters? (formerly called Give a Damn?) is an award-winning feature length documentary that reveals a powerful perspective on what really matters in life. It is an inspiring story about three young men (an Atheist and two Christians) who journey across three continents immersing themselves in poverty. Their intent is to experience extreme poverty and explore the questions that we all have. What can and should we do to help the over a billion...
7) Blackbird
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This short drama sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia’s sugar slaves. Set in the late 1800s, it follows the story of Solomon Islander siblings, Kiko and Rosa, who were kidnapped from their Pacific island home and forced to work on a sugar cane plantation in Queensland in conditions akin to slavery. Shot entirely on location and in collaboration with communities in Mackay, Queensland - where these historical events took place...
8) Paradise
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, PARADISE is the story of people heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although at times their paths do cross, they never really seem to meet.. Winner at the Anima Film Festival and Best Student Film Nominee at the Plymouth Film Festival.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Strong willed, educated and forthright Indian-Australian Ramona was 27 when she fell head-over-heels in love with Anurag, the eldest son of one of Rajasthan's wealthiest merchant families. When she decided to marry him secretly at a Melbourne Registry Office, neither of their families were impressed, and Anu and Ramona were soon to find they had walked headlong into an epic clash of cultures. WEDDING SARI SHOWDOWN is a lighthearted story with a serious...
10) I Was a Winner
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Three very different stories on the subject of computer game addiction are told through a mix of documentary interviews and animation in this acclaimed Swedish short film.. The interviewees paint a picture of an existence characterized by isolation and flight response, but also by revenge and romanticism. An ingeniously designed and animated documentary that both captivates and moves you.. Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival and Göteborg Film...
11) Water Warriors
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
WATER WARRIORS is the story of a community’s successful resistance against the oil and gas industry. When an energy company begins searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, Canada, indigenous and white families unite to drive out the company in a campaign to protect their water and way of life.. Official Selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and DOC NYC.. Winner of Best Short Documentary at the Blackstar Film Festival. Winner of Best Documentary...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Set in Venice in the late 19th century and based on Henry James' eponymous novella, THE ASPERN PAPERS is a story of obsession, grandeur lost, and dreams of Byronic adventures. Ambitious editor Morton Vint (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is fascinated by the Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern and by his icon's short and wildly romantic life. Having traveled from America to Venice, he is determined to get his hands on the letters Aspern wrote to his beautiful lover...
13) Trans
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trans is an extraordinary documentary feature film about men and women… and all the variations in between. It is an up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world through the memorable stories and the unusual lives of a remarkable cast of characters. Here we will explore the Transgender Community, perhaps the most misunderstood and mistreated minority in America and around the world. It begins with the story of Lt. Commander Christopher...
14) I Am From Chile
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Salvador, a young Chilean man who moves to London to study English and travel around Europe at his parents’ expense. He stays with his aunt María, who makes a rather decent living renting the rooms of her house to other immigrants.. But when a financial crisis back home leaves Salvador with no resources of his own, he has no other choice but to make ends meet with the help of María and his roommates (including a Russian drug...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes from the Devil who, in revenge, deprives her of her hands. So begins her long journey towards the light… but in spite of her resilience and the new protection of a handsome prince’s estate, the Devil devises a plan of his own. THE GIRL WITHOUT HANDS is the audacious feature debut from acclaimed short filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, “I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.” The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of...
17) Yosemite
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's the autumn of 1985. In intertwining tales written by Oscar nominated actor James Franco, three 5th grade friends - Chris, Joe and Ted - unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto.. Chris drives up to Yosemite for the weekend with his dad (James Franco, 127 Hours) and discovers a corpse in the woods. Joe, left to his own devices by his babysitter, befriends a lonely drifter who shares his love of comic books. Meanwhile, a mountain lion is spotted...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The Hawthorne Legacy completes an overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life (1804-1864) and selected works published in nineteenth century American literature. Amongst his many novels, The Scarlet Letter which still reflects the moral and ethical dilemmas men and women face today, is explored in depth. This program is the first of three Masters of American Literature series produced and directed and hosted by James H. Bride ll to...
19) Tol'able David
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tol'able David is a magnificent film, carefully transferred from the best available elements, and starring the great Richard Barthelmess (Broken Blossoms) in the title role. This rural adaptation of the David and Goliath tale chronicles the hero's passage into adulthood as he confronts three crooks looking for trouble. When the story opens, David Kinemon, the youngest son of tenant farmers living in small-town West Virginia, yearns to be seen as an...
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a doctor who saw the worst of society and rn. The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait of Sandor (Alexander) Lenard, a Hungarian medical doctor and a distant cousin of filmmaker Lynne Sachs. In 1938 Lenard, a writer with a Jewish background, fled the Nazis to a safe haven in Rome. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones -- small and large -- of dead American...
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