Tag Archives: Documentary

In northern Mexico, residents of a cattle-ranching community struggle to survive amid harsh conditions caused by an ongoing drought. Director : Everardo González Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 11/20/2011 Country : Mexico

In Bettina Büttner’s exquisitely lucid documentary Kinder (Kids), childhood dysfunction, loneliness, and pent-up emotion run wild at an all-boys group home in southern Germany. The children interned here include ten-year-olds Marvin and Tommy. Marvin, fiddling with a mini plastic Lego sword, explains matter-of-factly to the camera, “This is a knife. You use it to cutContinue reading “Kids – 2011”

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In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants have organised their lives accordingly. In order to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, their festivals and religious rituals Ulrike Ottinger journeyed to the mythical snow country – accompanied byContinue reading “Under Snow – 2011”

Two women and two men tell their stories of exile caused by being lesbian, transgender, bisexual and gay. Director : Catherine Vuylsteke|Hanne Phlypo Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 6/22/2011 Country : Belgium

A walk through the life and work of the Spanish sculptor, writer and illustrator Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), the so-called “poet of space.” Director : Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 7/1/2011 Country :

Two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women fight to hold onto their gold-rich land and defy paramilitary death threats in the remote mountains of Colombia. Part of the PBS series Women, War & Peace. Director : Cast : Genre : Documentary Release Date : 11/1/2011 Country :

For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only ones to laugh? In the past, scientists tended to neglect such questions of laughter, leaving them to the philosophers. Jacques Mitsch’s A NATURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER explores recent scientific attempts to explicate this most elusive of human faculties, undertaken by scientists who seeContinue reading “A Natural History of Laughter – 2011”

Immortal Technique emerged from prison a changed man. As his inner journey continues he travels the world promoting a revolution of consciousness through hip-hop. His path from a troubled youth to a fearless revolutionary is an inspirational must-see. Director : Cast : Chuck D|Cornel West|DJ Green Lantern|Ice-T|Immortal Technique|Pam Africa|Russell Means|Woody Harrelson Genre : Documentary ReleaseContinue reading “The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique – 2011”