HOUR OF THE FURNACES
One of the most lucid examples of film being used as a policial weapon, Hour of the Furnaces is the first Argentine film essay on liberation and the national question.
LAS MADRES DE PLAZA DE MAYO
This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinian mothers' movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 "disappeared" sons and daughters remains as extraordinarily powerful as when it was first released. As well as giving an understanding of Argentinian history in the '70s and '80s, LAS MADRES shows the empowerment of women in a society where women are expected to be silent. LAS MADRES provides a banner of hope in the international struggle for human rights.
ARGENTINE VOICES
Activist film-makers Conscious Cinema report on the country's remarkable protest movement.
CINEMANIA
This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs.
FELLINI: I'M A BORN LIAR
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar is a 2002 French documentary based on Federico Fellini's last confessions in Rome in 91 and 92, the film eschews straightforward biography to highlight the Italian director's unorthodox working methods, conscience, and philosophy.
BADASS CINEMA
Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.
BELONGING
This is a film with a gripping personal narrative, with tears and triumph, with some humour as well as disappointment. And in the most painful and poignant way shows life in Cambodia today.
DIM SUM - A LITTLE BIT OF HEART
Wayne Wang's appealing tale of a westernised Chinese family in San Francisco.
MAKE ME PROUD
Mike is an ex-boxer who lives in Salford with his son Thomas and tries to give Thomas a way out of poverty and crime - the art of boxing. As Thomas' first fight approaches, he father asks: 'Are you going to make me proud?'
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries of family life are pushed, pulled, stretched, torn and surprisingly at times, also healed.
MAKING THE MOON
The story of the relationship between an ambitious father and his aspiring bullfighter son.
ROGER AND ME
Roger and Me is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town.
FOOTPRINTS
Filmed in Afghanistan and Laos, Footprints records the devastation wrought on the civilian population by the use of cluster bombs.
LESSONS OF DARKNESS
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War.