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In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
Duration: 1h52
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
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Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Sheroes
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Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...
Sukwan's Island
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In a remote village in Thailand, Sukwan, an 8-year-old autodidact, is building with her parents’ help a life-sized version of "Snowyaland": an imaginary world she has conceived in her own mind. Against all odds, the modest family has been pursuing this colossal endeavor over the years while attempting to preserve Sukwan’s luxuriant inner world as she is soon approaching adolescence and its many...
P.S. Jerusalem
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Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
New product!Duration: 1h43
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
Duration: 1h52
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Outside
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Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Sheroes
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Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...
Sukwan's Island
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In a remote village in Thailand, Sukwan, an 8-year-old autodidact, is building with her parents’ help a life-sized version of "Snowyaland": an imaginary world she has conceived in her own mind. Against all odds, the modest family has been pursuing this colossal endeavor over the years while attempting to preserve Sukwan’s luxuriant inner world as she is soon approaching adolescence and its many...
P.S. Jerusalem
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Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
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Ghost Hunting
Duration: 3h06
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In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
In the jasmine vines
Duration: 1h02
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Shaping a memoir of my personal return, _in the jasmine vines_ is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they ca...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
New product!Duration: 1h43
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
With the Blood of Others
Duration: 1h44
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The Peugeot production lines shown through deafening images. This is the core of the Peugeot empire : the exploitation of human work to the extreme. Outside, everything belongs to the Peugeot group : the city, the stores, leisure, holidays, housing...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
Duration: 1h52
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
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From the peaks of the High Atlas to a mouth's cavity, the creative documentary Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe (I speak all languages, but in Arabic) takes us on a journey along a vocal furrow that leads from song to language. In the relief of this furrow, the memory of words, the traces of colonial violence, a song of remedy, the history of letters and the cosmos are inscribed. Inte...
A Woman Captured
Duration: 1h25
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Being held as a slave in Europe today seems impossible. Yet it is the case for millions of people. Marish, 52, has been held captive by a family for 10 years and forced to work without pay. She has forgotten what freedom feels like and has lost all will to escape. Drawing courage from the presence of the filmmaker, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and regain her freedom. This fil...
Bethune
Duration: 1h46
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This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
A More Radiant Sphere
Duration: 1h28
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_A More Radiant Sphere_ tells the long-lost story of Communist poet, activist and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace, bringing him to life through archival material, both real and imagined. This hybrid film is shot primarily on 16 mm film and weaves together the story of Wallace, the failed Canadian Communist Party, and the filmmaker’s own surprising discovery of her relation to Wallace th...
Spirit Emulsion
Duration: 16 minutes
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A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
Ghost Hunting
Duration: 3h06
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In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
In the jasmine vines
Duration: 1h02
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Shaping a memoir of my personal return, _in the jasmine vines_ is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they ca...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
New product!Duration: 1h43
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_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
With the Blood of Others
Duration: 1h44
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The Peugeot production lines shown through deafening images. This is the core of the Peugeot empire : the exploitation of human work to the extreme. Outside, everything belongs to the Peugeot group : the city, the stores, leisure, holidays, housing...
In the Desert - Omar's Dream
Duration: 1h52
Subscription access
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
I Speak All Languages, But In Arabic
New product!Duration: 1h44
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From the peaks of the High Atlas to a mouth's cavity, the creative documentary Je parle toutes les langues, mais en arabe (I speak all languages, but in Arabic) takes us on a journey along a vocal furrow that leads from song to language. In the relief of this furrow, the memory of words, the traces of colonial violence, a song of remedy, the history of letters and the cosmos are inscribed. Inte...
A Woman Captured
Duration: 1h25
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Being held as a slave in Europe today seems impossible. Yet it is the case for millions of people. Marish, 52, has been held captive by a family for 10 years and forced to work without pay. She has forgotten what freedom feels like and has lost all will to escape. Drawing courage from the presence of the filmmaker, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and regain her freedom. This fil...
Bethune
Duration: 1h46
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This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
A More Radiant Sphere
Duration: 1h28
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_A More Radiant Sphere_ tells the long-lost story of Communist poet, activist and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace, bringing him to life through archival material, both real and imagined. This hybrid film is shot primarily on 16 mm film and weaves together the story of Wallace, the failed Canadian Communist Party, and the filmmaker’s own surprising discovery of her relation to Wallace th...
Spirit Emulsion
Duration: 16 minutes
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A woman's connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Meanwhile, amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, an ancestral act of sovereignty extends into the future. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion evokes a language for Taíno filmmaking in relationship to the earth and co...
