Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family's traditional fish camp. The unusual story of his life and the untold history of his people interweave with the process of preparing traditional food as he struggles to pay his bills, keep the IRS off his back, and keep his business afloat. By turns tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, Smokin' fish tells the story of one man's attempts to navigate the messy zone of collision between the modern world and an ancient culture.
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Details the inside story of one of history's greatest business scandals. Unimaginable personal excesses, and an utter moral vacuum that posed as corporate philosophy, led to top executives of America's seventh largest corporation walking away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything.
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In March 2002, a state TV signal in China gets hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening an already violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea. Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong's art, Eternal spring (長春) retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance told through harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution and incredible artistry. Eternal spring is an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.
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BLOODTIME MOONTIME DREAMTIME is a poetic three-part documentary work by Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Roberta Cantow which recontextualizes the experience of menstruation, blood, creativity and power for women today. Dreamtime: Women as agents of change.
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When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of color during this era, began sex work in an area known as "The Stroll" in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan, where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence. Reuniting her sisters to tell this essential New York story from their first-hand experiences, Kristen's intimate narration and interviews bring an astonishing array of archival material of bygone New York from the 1970s through the early 2000s to life. As much as The Stroll is a film about transgender life, it is also a startling account of gentrification, as New York City Mayor Giuliani enacted "quality of life" initiatives that ramped up policing in the city and pushed the sex workers out of the neighborhood.
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Las abogadas follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence, and war. From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to persuading border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana, to giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to families desperate to see American soil--we watch our protagonists' surreal journeys to try and help.
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Chinese mining in Ecuador's mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic documentary. This stolen country of mine follows Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who leads the Indigenous resistance against the exploitation of their land. Meanwhile, China uses the Ecuadorian government to turn the country into one of its new colonies, having made the country dependent on credit through a series of corrupt and greedy treaties. When journalist Fernando Villavicencio exposes these plots and gets access to the contracts between China and Ecuador, the government wants him silenced, too. Both men are fighting for freedom in this battle against a superpower. This stolen country of mine film exposes China's massive hunger for natural resources and how during the last decade it has been aggressively operating to obtain access to these resources in Ecuador. The country is now stuck with the most Chinese debt in Latin America.
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Master Coast Salish Carver Ts'uts'umutlhw (Luke Marston) sculpts with yellow cedar, but also uses materials like gold and glass. Both his parents were carvers, and he follows a variety of inspirations. The 14-foot bronze memorial sculpture, Shore to Shore, was cast from the original yellow cedar carving. It was erected in Vancouver's Stanley Park to commemorate his great-great grandfather Portuguese Joe (Joe Silvey), his Coast Salish first wife Pkhaltinaht and second wife Kwatleemaat, and his life with the Coast Salish people. Joe Silvey was born and raised on Portugal's Atlantic Azores Islands, though after several adventures, Joe found himself on the Pacific coast, an early pioneer of Vancouver's Gastown. The sculpture honours the link between Portuguese and Coast Salish First Nations cultures, marks the land's rich heritage, and symbolizes unity for Vancouver's present-day diverse inhabitants.
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Mama has a mustache is a short, quirky, fully animated documentary about gender and family, as seen through children's eyes. Driven completely by audio interviews of kids ages 5-10, the film uses these sound bytes combined with clip-art and mixed media to explore how children are able to experience a world outside of the traditional gender binary. Part of The Gender & Youth Media Project.
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Colombia is facing a complete energy transition; it wants to move away from coal and gas production and firmly embrace renewable energy sources, primarily wind energy. However, this transition is not without challenges.
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An honest, straight and raw first-person account of the last war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for his place in a country under siege. While thousands of things are published on the recurring violence, the stories behind them remain hidden. Not this one.
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Reality and fiction merge in this film about--and featuring--professional actors with intellectual disabilities, which explores the heart-rending tensions between what its spontaneous stars want, are able and are allowed to do.
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Three years ago, Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral's roof tops were destroyed by flames in front of the eyes of the whole world. Since then, we have seen the clearance and securing efforts and eventually the start of a huge reconstruction task ahead. Men and women at the reconstruction site of Notre-Dame's cathedral embody the mysterious aura of the place. As if the setting impregnates them. They are working at a void where their only and most important mission is to save and restore the magnificent cathedral. They must do it quickly and perfectly.
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For decades, it was believed that the beginnings of art had emerged in Europe, 20,000 years ago at Lascaux, then 36,000 years at Chauvet. Recent research is shaking up our understanding of art. The art of prehistory is much richer than we thought. The oldest paintings have been dated to nearly 45,000 years old! And not in Europe, but on the other side of the world, in Indonesia.
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A coming-of-age film depicting the challenges and hopes of brothers Amer and Anas during five years of filming in the Palestinian old city of Hebron.
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What is hidden behind the shining promise of Artificial Intelligence? The Cost of AI shows the reality behind the smokescreen that Silicon Valley presents us and speaks with people who are engaged in dissecting the global AI industry.
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In Ukraine, the Soviet KGB archive with countless files containing reports of observations, has been made accessible to the public. A dissident Ukrainian woman, a Dutch amateur spy and a French tourist betrayed 50 years ago by her "lover", are confronted with their own file in the archive.
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The Underground Astronaut follows evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers on her quest to map the world's fungi networks and understand their behaviour before it's too late.
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The Voice of Nature explores the latest scientific discoveries about the inner life and behavior of animals and addresses ethical questions about how we should use this knowledge. From animal communication and emotions to rights for nature, this documentary investigates what our responsibility as humans is to act on what we know about animals and their place in the world. Can we entrust ourselves with this responsibility?
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They & Them is a captivating portrait of an outpatient gender clinic in which ethical, financial and bureaucratic dilemmas fight for priority.
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Water crime. Episode 1, Never-ending story
In 2019 it was world news for fifteen days: the fall of Spanish toddler Julen into a hundred meter deep, illegal well. Rescue workers work day and night to save him, but Julen does not survive. What happened to him could have happened anywhere in the country. The Spanish soil is littered with illegal wells.
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What can humans learn from nature? Environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht is certain that a new era awaits us: the Symbiocene. The term comes from the word symbiosis, the long-term coexistence of two or more organisms of different species. The Symbioscene is an era in which people, nature and technology find a new balance and benefit from each other's existence.
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The inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp of Greenham Common, told from the inside by the women who were there.
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Being a journalist is an increasingly dangerous job; how can journalists arm themselves against the dangers and continue to do their jobs? French journalist Laurent Richard is one of the first to advocate a different approach to investigative journalism.
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A collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations that present World War II's pivotal events. The series includes interviews and first-hand accounts with veterans and survivors. The World at War series--which focused on the experience of the conflict, of how life and death throughout the war years affected soldiers, sailors, and airmen, civilians, concentration camp survivors, and other victims of the war--is regarded as a landmark in British television history.
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