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2012

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Generation M
Generation M
Despite the achievements of the women's movement over the past four decades, misogyny remains a persistent force in American culture. In this important documentary, Thomas Keith, professor of philosophy at California State University-Long Beach, looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.
Generation M 2012
The Last of McGuinness
The Last of McGuinness
After finally achieving his childhood dream, being one of the top professional wrestlers in the world, Nigel McGuinness painfully travels the world for one last tour, battling to understand his place in the business he spent his life pursuing, after his career was cut mysteriously short.
The Last of McGuinness 2012
Automatic Brain
Automatic Brain
Two parts documentary about the brain: "The Magic of the Unconscious" and "The Power of the Unconscious" "Your brain is a state-of-the-art marvel, managing 90% of everything you do without letting you know regardless of whether you're awake or asleep. When you think you have an idea your brain has already had that idea. Something in your head navigates you through the everyday adventures of modern life, something that decides things for you before you can think about it, because your brain is always on automatic."
Automatic Brain 2012
A Community Comes Together to Save Homeless Animals: The New Hampshire Story
A Community Comes Together to Save Homeless Animals: The New Hampshire Story
After filmmaker Bill Millios made his earlier film, Killing Our Best Friends, shelters and rescue groups in New Hampshire made great progress in their life-saving work. By 2000, New Hampshire had become the first state in the nation to stop putting cats and dogs to death in its shelters just to make room for other animals who had become homeless. Bill made this film to get a better understanding of how that happened. It includes interviews with people who helped make that progress and shows how people throughout the country can do the same in their own community.
A Community Comes Together to Save Homeless Animals: The New Hampshire Story 2012
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
The greatest untold story in Rock and Roll history as revealed by the musicians,artists and people that lived it
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story 2012
Pepe el Andaluz
Pepe el Andaluz
When I was a child, I was told my grandfather Pepe had died. Later I found out that after the Spanish Civil War he had emigrated to Argentina. My grandmother never knew anything else about him. This autobiographical film is a trip against time and oblivion to uncover family secrets.
Pepe el Andaluz 2012
Ein Kuss macht Kasse - Klimt zwischen Kunst und Kommerz
Ein Kuss macht Kasse - Klimt zwischen Kunst und Kommerz
Ein Kuss macht Kasse - Klimt zwischen Kunst und Kommerz 2012
Raymond Bernard, une carrière française
Raymond Bernard, une carrière française
Raymond Bernard, une carrière française 2012
Pink Past and Present
Pink Past and Present
An award-winning feature length documentary film which explores the rich, vibrant and often turbulent history of Liverpool's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The film features authentic, personal and gripping stories from the 1950s to the present day.
Pink Past and Present 2012
Amsterdam Stories USA
Amsterdam Stories USA
Amsterdam Stories USA 2012
Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human?
Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human?
David Malone asks if we are right to see the heart as merely a brilliant pump or whether it should be allowed to reclaim something of its old place at the centre of our humanity. The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body.
Heart vs Mind: What Makes Us Human? 2012
Blood Must Flow - Undercover Among Nazis
Blood Must Flow - Undercover Among Nazis
Undercover documentary about neo-nazi concerts in Germany and other European countries.
Blood Must Flow - Undercover Among Nazis 2012
Antenna
Antenna
Riveting documentary on the Antenna Club of Memphis, an important punk club incubating some of the best bands to come out of Memphis over 20+ years.
Antenna 2012
BigzIN
BigzIN
The story is set within a colossal old building, in the city centre, where artists are renting their workspace. The building spontaneously spawned into a huge alternative Cultural Centre, and a still fragile, emerging scene is struggling for its existence.
BigzIN 2012
Pearl of the Sky
Pearl of the Sky
Documentary about Jane Angelevski, a popular Macedonian folk music performer.
Pearl of the Sky 2012
Xavante - O Centenário Rubro-negro
Xavante - O Centenário Rubro-negro
Xavante - O Centenário Rubro-negro 2012
Flagger
Flagger
Raúl and Niebla watch a flagger direct traffic. Part of the "Haikus" series.
Flagger 2012
A hole in the wall
A hole in the wall
Each family member gives a different use to a hole in the wall, where there used to be an air conditioner. Part of the series "Haikus".
A hole in the wall 2012
Gaza Calling
Gaza Calling
Samer lives in Ramallah in the West Bank. His family lives in Gaza, one hour away. They have not seen each other for six years. When Mustafa went for a visit to Gaza in 2006, he was 18 years old. He was never allowed to return – his mother Hekmat has been fighting to see him again for seven years now. Two families torn apart. They share the same “crime”: being registered with a Gaza address in their Identity Cards. Under Israeli rule, they are considered “infiltrators” in their own country. Their lives have turned into a permanent struggle. Parents can only talk to their sons on the phone; sisters can only see their brothers on the internet – mothers and their children fighting to be together at last…
Gaza Calling 2012
Angry Pinata
Angry Pinata
Some children break an Angry Birds piñata that makes sounds. Part of the "Haiku" series.
Angry Pinata 2012
The Russian Winter
The Russian Winter
The Russian Winter 2012
Killing Our Best Friends: The Crisis of Pet Overpopulation
Killing Our Best Friends: The Crisis of Pet Overpopulation
In 1994, filmmaker Bill Millios made a 30-minute documentary film, Killing Our Best Friends—The Crisis of Pet Overpopulation, to call attention to the staggering number of cats and dogs that were being put down in New Hampshire animal shelters just to make room for other homeless animals. The film includes interviews with people who were working throughout the state to save the lives of these animals and discussed ways that could be done. "Absolutely fantastic - very well-done, informative and conveys an extremely important message about the responsibilities of pet ownership." WGOT-60, Manchester, NH.
Killing Our Best Friends: The Crisis of Pet Overpopulation 2012
The Sheik and I
The Sheik and I
When an American filmmaker is commissioned to make a film for a Middle East Biennial on the theme of 'art as a subversive act,' his film is banned for blasphemy, he is asked to destroy every copy, and threatened with arrest.
The Sheik and I 2012
The Fade
The Fade
4 barbers, 4 lives,1 story... The Fade is an intimate portrait of four Afro barbers across the world over seven days. The observational documentary reveals exactly what this profession means to society in the 21st century. Set in Ghana,Jamaica, USA and the UK the film interweaves their stories and examines the polarized opposites of the locations. Creating an international dialog of the colorful lives of four men who do they same thing in different time zones, with very different realities.
The Fade 2012
Danube: Europe's Amazon
Danube: Europe's Amazon
Romantic river banks and unspoilt nature - these landscapes flank the Danube River. This comprehensive cinematic portrait of Europe's secondlongest river presents scenes of breathtaking beauty along the banks of the Danube, and investigates the tension between humans and nature, civilisation and wilderness
Danube: Europe's Amazon 2012
The King
The King
A feature documentary about one of the greatest sportsmen ever. Darko Kralj (the King) is the only sportsman in the history of sports who has beaten a world record in his category five times in a row at one world championship! A Croatian paralympic, seriously wounded in 1991 during the war in Croatia, Darko Kralj almost died. Doctors didn't expect him to survive. Today, he lives with a wife and three sons, the eldest one being the one Darko is the most attached to. A similar destiny brought them together; the kid has lost his biological father in the war. Tereza, his wife, has her own life story. Towards the end of this unusual life story, we shall get a clearer understanding of where Darko's strength and incredible love for life comes from...
The King 2012
El Rocío es Compartir
El Rocío es Compartir
In times of crisis, the doors are closed and there is no way out, but if we make the way sharing we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This movie manages to make the public laugh and be thrilled with vivid experiences at a party.
El Rocío es Compartir 2012
The War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
The War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny
Film producer and health activist Gary Null exposes the FDA as an organization that is merely a tool of big business and an agency that is actively attempting to destroy public. With plans to prevent the American population from having unregulated access to vitamins, minerals and healthy foods, the FDA is clearly an accomplice in the war on health and health freedom.
The War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny 2012
In Transition 2.0
In Transition 2.0
In Transition 2.0 is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. You’ll hear about communities printing their own money, growing food everywhere, localising their economies and setting up community power stations. It’s an idea that has gone viral, a social experiment that is about responding to uncertain times with solutions and optimism. In a world that is awash with gloom, here is a story of hope, ingenuity and the power of growing vegetables in unexpected places.
In Transition 2.0 2012
Scene Missing
Scene Missing
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Scene Missing 2012
Salty Dog Blues
Salty Dog Blues
The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they navigated issues of racism, disparities in the workplace, gender and familial relations.
Salty Dog Blues 2012
The curtain
The curtain
Edna visits La Cortina and Presa la Boca. Part of the series "Haikus".
The curtain 2012
Space station
Space station
Several people gather to watch the space station travel across the sky. Part of the series "Haikus".
Space station 2012
Die Rückkehr der Aramäer
Die Rückkehr der Aramäer
Die Rückkehr der Aramäer 2012
100% CEF, unha biografía de Celso Emilio Ferreiro
100% CEF, unha biografía de Celso Emilio Ferreiro
100% CEF, unha biografía de Celso Emilio Ferreiro 2012
Meet the Fokkens
Meet the Fokkens
Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.
Meet the Fokkens 2012
Les Roses noires
Les Roses noires
Les Roses noires 2012
Non sequitur
Non sequitur
Edna shows Raúl the films she made of the Via Crucis during Holy Week. Part of the "Haiku" series.
Non sequitur 2012
Pablo's Winter
Pablo's Winter
Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He has worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily. He has had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston's a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times. Pablo represents the last generation of Almadén mercury miners, an age-old profession with over 2,000 years of history. Through a straightforward depiction of life's everyday moments, Pablo's Winter explores the decay of the local mining culture, but above all, pays homage to its real protagonists: the miners and their families.
Pablo's Winter 2012
Open Field
Open Field
Open Field is a documentary about Gabriel Orozco, a movie that chronologically records 10 years of the life and work of the artist in ten sequences. In different formats (super 8, 16 mm., HD), the film features some of the most important and dramatic moments of his life. These years, the most recent, have been the most ripe for Orozco, since he has become a key figure in the world of global contemporary art.
Open Field 2012