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Born in China
Born in China

Born in China

2016 1h 16m Dir. Lu Chuan
9

Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.

Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015 1h 15m Dir. Laurie Anderson
3

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

Flake and Flames
Flake and Flames

Flake & Flames is a feature length documentary film about the astonishing Kustom Kulture movement around the globe. Spending a year traveling U.S. and Europe in search of the coolest Kustom Kulture people and events on the planet. Picking the brains of living legends, up and coming artists and builders within the culture.

Les pépites
Les pépites

Two worlds colliding for the best. The children of Phnom Penh scavenging the dump-site to survive and a recently retired couple discovering Cambodia. This is the extraordinary human story of Christian and Marie France and how they changed the lives of more than 10,000 kids over 20 years. For a Child Smile is born.

Happiness
Happiness

Happiness

2013 1h 20m Dir. Thomas Balmès
3

Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched high in the Himalayas. Soon the world will come to him: the village is about to be connected to electricity, and the first television will flicker on before Peyangki's eyes.

Art Bastard
Art Bastard

Art Bastard

2016 1h 22m Dir. Victor Kanefsky
1

What is art and how does it relate to society? Is its value determined by its popularity or originality? Is the goal profit or expressing one's personal vision? These are some of the questions raised as we follow fiercely independent New York artist Robert Cenedella in his artistic journey through decades of struggling for creative expression.

Primary
Primary

Primary

1960 53m Dir. Robert Drew
First shot?

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style.

Dead Slow Ahead
Dead Slow Ahead

Dead Slow Ahead

2015 1h 14m Dir. Mauro Herce
6

The freighter Fair Lady crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors' trade disappearing under the mechanic and impersonal pace of 21st century neocapitalism.

La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación
La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación

An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence is a historical, geographic, and economic analysis of Argentina.