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Konate's Gift
Dieneba returns to her village after a short trip to the city. Her cousin Salif has given her gifts for the family in the village: kola nuts, loincloths… and condoms. When she arrives, Dieneba distributes the gifts and promises her husband, Konate, a nice gift for the night. At night she gives him the condoms, but Konate…
South
In South, Chantal Ackerman (multi-award-winning feature and documentary director) conjures the ghosts of the hate crimes and lynchings that have plagued that part of the US. More precisely, South examines the impact on the community of the rural town of Jasper, Texas, after the James Byrd, Jr. murder that s…
Mathias, le procès des gangs
Mathias is a death-row inmate in Guinea. Only 20 years old, he was convicted after teenage gangs committed a rash of violent armed crimes in Conakry at the end of 1994. The trial found five of the 'gangsters' guilty and condemned to death, while the others were condemned to a sentence of hard labour. The…
P.O.V.: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisions
The Legacy traces the extraordinary sequence of events, from murders to manhunts to win-at-all-cost political campaigns, which lead to the enactment of California´s 'Three Strikes and You´re Out' initiative, the nation´s toughest and most controversial sentencing law. Filmmaker Michael Moore reveals the tur…
Decibled
This documentary shows how music and musicians representing Afro-Maghrebian new tendencies contribute to the blending and fusion of Maghrebian and African cultures, as well as of European and Western ones. It tells about exile, about artist´s feelings, about Algeria today. It shows how Maghrebians living i…
Sweet, Sweet Home
Every summer, women of the Zeravshan valley go high up to the mountains. Having with themselves only the most necessary, they spend the whole season there not seeing their relatives. Loyal to their duty, they proudly fulfill it. Years pass, and a new generation comes to replace the previous one, and nothing …
Blue Fireworks
Reiko, a woman in her forties who edits adult videos, encounters a 19 year-old girl, Ayaka, who, through acting in these videos, seeks a place for herself through a tormented form of self-assertion. To Reiko, this is the cry of an isolated soul cut off from involvement with others. This vivid drama looks at how, i…
Corpus Camera
Filmed in the dramatic, isolated northern landscape of Iceland, this 56-minute documentary explores the process of death and grief through personal post-mortem photography. In Corpus Camera, we meet Icelanders who have chosen to document very personal experiences of death and loss through photogr…
An American Love Story. Ep. 9 : It's My Job
An American Love Story is an extraordinary 10-hour series about a black man and a white woman who have struggled for 30 years against racial stereotypes and societal prejudice to keep their family together. Aired over five nights, two hours a night in primetime, the series follows Bill Sims and Karen Wilson, th…