'Okkadu Migiladu' is the story of displaced Sri Lankan Tamilians who find themselves stuck with the tag of 'refugees' all their lives. The mistreatment they face both in India and Sri Lanka, with either country refusing to accept them as their own, forms the crux of the story.
Nandha returns after serving his term for killing his father. Although he killed him to save his mother, she does not forgive him. He is then taken in by Periyavar, who shelters Sri Lankan refugees.
The Narrative of a Lost Soul, Between Two Flags is a deeply personal and emotionally resonant drama told through the voice of a Lost Soul, he narrates the life of his mother, a Tamil Eelam refugee, and his father, a former Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) soldier. Born of war, torn by history, As it uncovers a story forged in the most unlikely of places a battered refugee camp during the final years of the civil conflict. Which carriers horrors of war, the weight of a Lost homeland and a language of silence. As he sifts through old letters, voice recordings, and fragmented memories, he reconstructs a painful but beautiful portrait of two individuals caught on opposite sides of history and how they chose love, despite politics, bloodshed, and betrayal.
An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
Chesa Boudin’s journey from son of imprisoned Weather Underground activists to DA fighting to reform the justice system.
Documentary short film about the afterlife of the remnants of the Berlin Wall.
Out-of-control teens across America were sent to a therapy camp in the harsh Utah desert. The conditions were brutal, but the staff were even worse.
This documentary, filmed after October 7, places recent events in context and retraces the extraordinary history of this region to shed light on the present, interviewing actors and witnesses to this conflict: Islamists, Jewish nationalists, imams, rabbis, intellectuals, urban planners, soldiers, etc.
Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain
A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.
Dorotys dream was to dance and be recognized as the woman she was, but death came first. Her best friend Misael, a sixty-year-old gay man, will make it happen. Misael creates the first diverse folk dance group, questioning traditions that are defended by cultural values in order to erase their queerness.
Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.
The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.
A documentary depicting the Warsaw district of Powiśle where time has stopped. One of several films made by Kazimierz Karabasz included in the "black series" of Polish documentaries. Featuring a commentary typical for documentaries of the second half of the 1950s, it is distinguished by penetrating observation and lyricism.
A reflection on success and happiness from the observation of the world of amateur awards granted to artists and communicators.
Rare 1977 documentary short hosted by Christopher Lee on the occult. Topics range from witch covens, Astrology, psychic powers, seances and astral projection, amongst others.
A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'
Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints the religious houses of the vodun. Haas and his film crew follow Cyprien as he first paints and then takes part in the ceremony to open a new temple. The paintings include three vodun figures and several emblems, including a pipe and a duck. Cyprien explains his work in the context of the religion and takes the crew to film two other local ceremonies, one where the dead are believed to come back to instruct the living through wild dancing and, another, where women warriors perform their war dances.
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.