Cultivating empathy
Author-driven documentaries are a vehicle for empathy, exploring and questioning both the reality around them and the ways it can be represented. Discover a selection of films that resist, confronting indifference with the power of perspective.
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Mom
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Filmmaker Xun Sero grew up as a Tzotzil Mexican among the sacredness of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mother Earth. As the son of a single mother, he grew up between mockery for not having a father and blaming his mother for it. _Mom_ is a dialogue between a mother and a son who explore their contradictions, who know and recognize each other, and reflect on the perpetuation of naturalized violence.
A Story of One's Own
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Their names are Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira and Mathieu. They are 25- to 52-year-old, hailing from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea, or Australia. These five individuals have something in common: they are adopted. Separated from their family and country from childhood, they grew up in French families. Their life stories and home movies tell an intimate, political story about...
Oasis
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At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fusional attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.
I Am Somebody
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In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard.
Mom
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Filmmaker Xun Sero grew up as a Tzotzil Mexican among the sacredness of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mother Earth. As the son of a single mother, he grew up between mockery for not having a father and blaming his mother for it. _Mom_ is a dialogue between a mother and a son who explore their contradictions, who know and recognize each other, and reflect on the perpetuation of naturalized violence.
A Story of One's Own
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Their names are Anne-Charlotte, Joohee, Céline, Niyongira and Mathieu. They are 25- to 52-year-old, hailing from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea, or Australia. These five individuals have something in common: they are adopted. Separated from their family and country from childhood, they grew up in French families. Their life stories and home movies tell an intimate, political story about...
Oasis
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At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fusional attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.
I Am Somebody
Subscription access
In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard.
