FILMS
- Modern Life
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Raymond Depardon has been documenting the changing face of rural France in his Profils Paysans series. Modern Life combines his flair for widescreen shots and the perfect light with his patience for the kitchen interview, and always, his love for his subjects.
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- Raymond Depardon
- Documentaries
- France
- 2008
- My Neighbor, My Killer
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This documentary of genocide trials in a village in Rwanda probes the difficult steps toward forgiveness and reconciliation, asking what it means to have the man who killed your family moving back into your neighborhood.
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- Anne Aghion
- Documentaries
- USA/France
- 2009
- New Muslim Cool
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From behind the headlines on the War on Terror comes this unexpected yet utterly American story: an intimate portrait of Hamza Pérez, Puerto Rican-born former drug dealer turned politically conscious hip-hop musician, community activist, family man and devoted Muslim.
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- Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2009
- Nomad’s Land
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Gaël Métroz, inspired by the writings of the famous Swiss adventurer/philosopher Nicolas Bouvier, discovers a deep connection to nomadic peoples and the physical and spiritual beauty of their worlds. A travel film unlike any you’ve seen.
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- Gaël Métroz
- Documentaries
- Switzerland/Turkey/Iran/ Pakistan/Afghanistan/ China/India/Sri Lanka
- 2008
- Oblivion
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Heddy Honigmann returns to her native Peru for her latest deeply humanist exploration of everyday resilience and resignation. In Lima, “the forgotten city,” in the shadow of the presidential palace, bartenders and buskers create their own reality to survive an economy in ruins.
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- Heddy Honigmann
- Documentaries
- Netherlands
- 2008
- The Reckoning
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The International Criminal Court’s attempts to prosecute powerful killers who formerly acted with impunity is examined, through accounts of victims, prosecutors, and human rights activists, in this fascinating, often encouraging, account of the pursuit of justice.
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- Pamela Yates
- Documentaries
- USA/Uganda/Congo/Colombia/Netherlands
- 2008
- Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
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This provocative cine-essay by the director of The Draughtsman’s Contract (SFIFF 1983) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) reframes Rembrandt’s The Night Watch as an indictment of 17th-century Amsterdam’s ruling elites.
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- Peter Greenaway
- Documentaries
- England/Netherlands
- 2008
- Sacred Places
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Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno profiles a poor but lively neighborhood in the capital of Burkina Faso, where a cine club proprietor tries to include Burkinabe films among the action and Bollywood fare. With short Homage (13 min).
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- Jean-Marie Téno
- Documentaries
- Cameroon/France
- 2009
- A Sea Change
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Grandfather Sven Huseby embarks on a quest to learn about the dire consequences of global warming on undersea life. Using stunning underwater footage and stark interviews, this documentary sounds the alarm about ocean acidification but conveys hope for the future.
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- Barbara Ettinger
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2009
- Soul Power
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The cream of African American rhythm-and-blues musicians, including B.B. King and James Brown, visit their ancestral homeland and come together with their African counterparts, including Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba, for an exhilarating, three-day 1974 music festival in Kinshasa, Zaire.
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- Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
- Documentaries
- USA
- 2008
