Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of the delicacy and tactility of books, are helping to keep the printed word alive. D.W. Young’s elegant and entertaining documentary, executive produced by Parker Posey, is a lively tour of New York’s book world, past and present, from the Park Avenue Armory’s annual Antiquarian Book Fair, where original editions can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars; to the Strand and Argosy book stores, still standing against all odds; to the beautifully crammed apartments of collectors and buyers. The film features a litany of special guests, including Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Gay Talese, and a community of dedicated book dealers who strongly believe in the wonder of the object and the everlasting importance of what’s inside.
Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
By depicting real-life witnesses and actual evidence in a courtroom setting, American Trial will tell the story of the trial that may have occurred had NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo been indicted for the killing of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York. Using the trial as a conduit, this documentary will examine accountability, race and police/civilian relations in New York City and beyond.
Macan Polkadot, a mafia gang, is led by Dewi, and his three sons: Kendra, Romi and Jodi. Dewi feels that she is too old and she wants Kendra to inherit the family business. So she asks Kendra to find a prospective wife. Later, Kendra meets Selma, a police officer, who often works undercover. The relationship between Kendra and Selma becomes more passionate. But they conceal their true identities from each other. Kendra claims that he works in a social foundation while Selma says that she is a civil servant. But when Selma finally admits that she is an undercover police officer to uncover smuggling cases, tax evasion and mafia gangs, Kendra is shocked. Selma is also shocked to learn the true identity of Kendra. However, Kendra promises Selma that if she ever catches him in a crime, she can arrest him herself.
The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.
Mirta Regina Satz worked as chief of treasury of AMIA (Mutual Association Israelita Argentina), interspersing her love for art, until July 18, 1994. In the middle of the working day, a bomb completely destroyed the building. Mirta survived the catastrophe and left the AMIA to reinvent herself at work with her own artistic work. She got engaged and decided a new course, uncertain, but true. There she began his construction work for another life.
The life and tribulations of Big Cherry Hill Fats, a 650-pound conman who swindled his victims out of 25 million dollars and helped bring down a criminal enterprise.
All Bindu needs to test out of high school is $53.75—by seventh period. Then maybe she can convince her mom to move the family back to India and leave her annoying new American stepdad behind in the US. One of the winning titles of Mark and Jay Duplass’ Campaign to find America’s Next Generation of Indie Filmmakers.
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Dato’s friends learn that his lover Tamriko is getting married to another man. They decide to get Tamriko and Dato closer to each other. They ask Tamriko a nurse, to go with them in the ambulance outside the city. Tamriko learns that she is kidnapped and demands that she is brought back home. However, Tamriko gets to like the company of her "kidnappers" and stays.
War vet Nick Gutman is forced to take a job with his father's quirky garbage men buddies. When tasked to destroy canceled toys before Christmas, Nick takes on the secret identity "Jingle Smells" and becomes a Robin Hood of the holidays.
Orientalism is a literary and artistic movement born in Western Europe in the 18th century. Through its scale and popularity, throughout the 19th century, it marked the interest and curiosity of artists and writers for the countries of the West (the Maghreb) or the Levant (the Middle East). Orientalism was born from the fascination of the Ottoman Empire and followed its slow disintegration and the progression of European colonizations. This exotic trend is associated with all the artistic movements of the 19th century, academic, romantic, realistic or even impressionist. It is present in architecture, music, painting, literature, poetry... Picturesque aesthetics, confusing styles, civilizations and eras, orientalism has created numerous clichés and clichés that we still find today in literature or cinema.
Shot at the Pierre Boucher Hospital in Montreal, this film takes us into the emergency room to see how our healthcare system is holding up. What it reveals is a powerful indictment of management that sees only the bottom line while human lives are at stake.
Samuel Mikovíni – umelec, inženier
Toutankhamon : du trésor à la malédiction