Award-Winning Films
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Ambulance
When a talented young filmmaker tells the story of his country with compassion, beauty, and warmth in an honest, straight and raw first-person account of the war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. Mohamed Jabaly, a young man from the Gaza City, joins an ambulance crew as war approaches, looking for ...
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Raised On Rock - The Burnette Family Legacy
This film is about a famous music family who influenced Elvis, The Beatles and Lef Zeppelin. The friction between the famous brothers carried down to their sons who also became famous and the film is an adventure where the director struggles to reunite the family at the end of the film.
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The Mundo King
If you dream it? This cosmic exploration paints the portrait of artist Rolf Schulf's pursuit to make is dreams come true through his endless toil to complete his majestic Mundo King Castle on a hill in the Dominican Republic.
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Peter Plan
Several years have passed since Peter decided to go and live in Plan, an isolated village at the Aragonese Pyrenees. Far Away from the advantages a city offers to a blind person, he survives through his art, rock music. Despite the recording of his latest album, daily life in this small village...
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Another News Story
Another News Story goes 'behind the scenes' of the news crews reporting the refugee story at the height of the European crisis. It takes the viewer to the other side of the camera and inspires us to re-evaluate our relationship with the global media and how we consume news. Shot across nine count...
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Bay Street Healer
Toronto psychiatrist Gordon Warme M.D. claims to be a participant in a vital cultural ritual, “one of countless rituals that give relief to humans...the most culture-bound of creatures.”
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Finding Francis
The award winning documentary film, follows one man on his journey to find the meaning of life, after being told by his doctors that he has one year to live.
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Slow Fashion
Slow Fashion is a documentary that explores cultural appropriation of indigenous designs in Mexico by an international fashion designer and the way weavers and block printers in Laos and India are working with new sustainable designers, whose principals and practices are based on equality, not hi...
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Sorojchi
"Sorojchi" is how altitude sickness is known in Bolivia and it is something that is felt in the cities of El Alto and La Paz. It is here where we learn the story of four urban artists who, through their work, share their views on Bolivia and Bolivians, immersed in a big social and political crisis.
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Empathy
Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change the habits of society that are detrimental to animals. But completely alien to the animal-loving culture; he will realize that to carry out the project, he must first convince himself.
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Messages From The End Of World
The documentary describes the dramatic consequences of the climate change in the Arctic zone. Thanks to the Swiss Arctic Project five young people have been navigating for three weeks through hostile and beautiful landscapes up to the North. They have documented the signs of global warming and ra...
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The Neutral Ground
A documentary about memory, monuments, and how to break up with the Confederacy
In 2015, CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments from the city. A forceful group of critics protested the decision and fearing retaliation, no crew would agree to r... -
Man On The Bus
Psychologist and filmmaker Eve always thought there was something not quite right about her family. After a decade of searching for the truth about her mother's roots as a Polish holocaust survivor, Eve makes a remarkable discovery about a chance encounter that changed her life forever. A compell...
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Operation Wolf Patrol
Eco-activist Rod Coronado has made it his life's mission to advocate for the planet and the rights of animals. In 2014 he formed Wolf Patrol, an activist group which fights to end hunting of the grey wolves that roam Wisconsin’s forests. After 30 years of radical environmental action, which earne...
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Waging Change
From no paid sick leave, to a reliance on tips in order to make a living, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the many fault lines in the American restaurant industry that affect both workers and consumers. As millions of restaurant workers were laid off in the face of the pandemic, Waging Change ...
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Sheltered
In the busy world of the animal shelter, the loving bond between humans and animals is strained by the endless stream of abandoned cats, dogs, and rabbits. Pets are life companions - but for some, they are dispensable. With care and training by the passionate employees and dedicated volunteers, t...
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Ocean To Sky
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to summit Mount Everest. That same year, the jetboat was invented. With this new invention, Hillary strove to also become the first to tackle the Himalayas' greatest river: the Ganges. It was a perilous journey from ocean to sky, achieved ...
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Yasuni Man
A desperate struggle between conservationists and oil interests plays out, as the indigenous people living in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their way of life against encroaching modernity. Filmmaker and biologist Ryan Patrick Killackey documents the staggering biodiversi...
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False Confessions
During a police interrogation in the US, a complex psychological tactic is used to get suspects to confess to crimes. Over the years, behind closed doors, in rooms devoid of recording devices to document the process, trained interrogators have been monumentally successful at getting defendants to...
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Silent Forests
Silent Forests is an intimate, character-driven portrait of conservationists and activists who are struggling to stop forest elephant poaching in Africa's Congo Basin region. After a study revealed that more than half the central African forest elephant population has been lost to poaching in th...
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This Little Land of Mines
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs ...
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Koka The Butcher
Koka’s world revolves around the humble pigeon. As a respected figure in Cairo’s pigeon fighting world, Koka devotes his time to training and caring for hundreds of pigeons in his self-built wooden tower. Under immense pressure from his conservative community to give up his passion, Koka is faced...
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Grit
When Dian was six, she narrowly escaped a tsunami of boiling mud that completely submerged 16 villages under a moonscape of grit, leaving 60,000 people displaced. Lapindo, an Indonesian drilling company, had unleashed a violent, unstoppable flow from the earth's depths, estimated to continue for ...
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Tanzania Transit
The disparate lives of three passengers aboard a cross country train. On board a sleeper train crossing Tanzania, the stories of three passengers unfold. Rukia is an entrepreneurial woman, on her way to begin a new life. Isaya is an old Masai man heading back to the bush with his grandson. Peter,...