Docuseek Collections, April 2024
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Docuseek Streaming Video, Spring 2024
Essential films for higher education
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Hello –
The Docuseek Spring Special is here through the end of July 2024! Lock in your discount and upgrade your streaming media collection with exclusive and highly-curated award-winning films from the leaders in social-issue and independent film.
2024 Spring Special
Available through July 31, 2024
The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition (3,000 exclusive titles by 12/31/2026) includes Life of File selections (10 or 40 titles) at the end of the subscription periods. Access exclusive independent content from world renowned educational distributors including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, dGenerate Films, Women Make Movies, GOOD DOCS (25 select titles), Collective Eye Films, First Run Features, National Film Board of Canada, KimStim, European distributors First Hand Films, AndanaFilms, Cinétévé, and new producing and distributoring partners 371 Productions, Lightdox, Autlook, Dutch CORE, Ideas Roadshow, and other participating filmmakers and distributors!
The Icarus Films Fiction Collection 2nd Edition (55 feature films) includes films from around the world, spanning multiple genres and representing four continents, and features new independent and classic documentaries, notably eight early short films by French New Wave master directors. The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection (225 films) is an award-winning collection that engages and inspires by featuring rarely heard stories about individuals and communities working towards a more equitable world. The Pragda Complete Film Collection (500 films) provides the most comprehensive catalog of Latinx, Latin American, and Spanish content in the world. And, launching this month, The Docuseek Fiction Collection, with over 60 feature films from around the world from Distrib and KimStim!
Need to encumber end of year money or take advantage of year-start funds? Tokens are a great way to buy now at Spring Special prices, and select titles later. Collections are available for one-year and three-year subscription, plus Life of File. Ask about flexible payment options.
Contact us for more information, to subscribe to a collection, or to take advantage of your free 30-day trial!
Below are powerful and timely new releases currently available from Docuseek. Plus, stay tuned for news about exciting new distributors, new collections, and new films added to collections later this Summer!
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Gorgeous images of dances, stunning while thought provoking: the dancers are handicapped. (First Hand Films)
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A documentary feature film about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years. Although many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of a bygone era – and accordion jokes abound – this film sets the record straight. (Roberta Cantow)
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Abigail Disney looks at the Disney family legacy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. (GOOD DOCS)
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The untold story behind the murder trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton: the landmark case that put racism on the stand. (GOOD DOCS)
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The stories of incarcerated abuse survivors fighting for their lives shows how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong. (GOOD DOCS)
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Three Afghan singers fight for women’s rights through music, despite death threats in a patriarchal society. (First Hand Films)
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Director Ilan Ziv traces the origins of antisemitism in France from the Middle Ages to the Dreyfus Affair. (Icarus Films)
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Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham's "August Pace," the original cast members gather once again in a New York City studio to teach their roles to a younger generation. (Bullfrog Films)
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Charts the personal journey of three families with children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. (National Film Board of Canada)
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An urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet. (Bullfrog Film)
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The widespread problems in our healthcare systems that disproportionately affect women. (GOOD DOCS)
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The life and work of Wolfgang Beltracchi, a master forger whose work fooled the international art world for 40 years. (KimStim)
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World-famous Haida artist Robert Davidson stages a potlatch acknowledging centuries of Indigenous abuse by government and colonists, but celebrating the newfound spirit of cultural and societal renewal and reconciliation. (Bullfrog Films)
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This searching, provocative exploration of masculinity raises uncomfortable questions about the shape and definition of masculinity in modern society. (GOOD DOCS)
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The Black Mambas are South Africa's first all-female anti-poaching unity, chosen by the white and male-dominated conservation authorities. Their fight against poaching challenges the role of women (and men) in their communities and South African society at large. (Autlook)
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This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history. (dGenerate Films)
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Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history. (GOOD DOCS)
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Sam, Matt and Mariah are three energetic young people on California’s central coast, un-inspired by what they studied in college, but, with a passion for dough - the bread kind. (Bullfrog Films)
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Brings together four different short documentaries exploring immigration, genealogy, gentrification and resilience within America. (Collective Eye Films)
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An essential and highly influential classic, Chircales is the product of two of the most prominent and rebellious voices of the New Latin American Cinema: Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva. (Pragda STREAM)
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Filmed in Austria, India, Peru and the Netherlands, this 4-part series presents architects who seek answers to the big questions facing our civilization today: climate change, rapidly growing cities, the involvement of local communities, education and migration. (Autlook)
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Brings us close to Burma's video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Armed with small handycams they make their undercover reportages, smuggle the material out of the country, and broadcast back into Burma via satellite or offered as free usage for international media. (First Hand Films)
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Patricio Guzmán's landmark film The Battle of Chile (1976) documented the "Popular Unity" period of Salvador Allende's government, the tumultuous events leading up to the 1973 coup, and Allende's death. Guzmán has returned to show The Battle of Chile in his homeland for the first time. (Icarus Films)
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Plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism. (Icarus Films)
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From initial lockdown to the first vaccines, Class of COVID-19 unveils untold and thought-provoking stories of courage and hope during a global pandemic. (Collective Eye Films)
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A filmmaker interviews his grandparents about their experience of Belgian colonialism. (Icarus Films)
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Tells the story of the incredible, recently discovered, world's largest cave passage and the opportunity and challenges it presents to the small, impoverished Vietnamese community nearby. (Bullfrog Films)
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Meet the LGBTQ activists who refused to accept psychiatry's mental illness label - and changed history. (GOOD DOCS)
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The 2023 program for Dance Camera West, a festival that aims to foster ground-breaking creation of dance film. (Dance Camera West)
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Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documents the last four years of her life-partner, outspoken lesbian, artist and theatre director, Nancy Diuguid's life, as she fights breast cancer. (Bullfrog Films)
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Academy Award®-Shortlist. Shares the now-forgotten story of how New York State Assemblyman George Michaels defied his conservative and religious constituents by casting the critical tie-breaking vote on a bill which legalized abortion in New York, laying the groundwork for Roe v Wade. (Collective Eye Films)
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Follows the Kovalchuk family, who were among the first refugees to arrive in America after fleeing Ukraine at the start of the Russian invasion. (GOOD DOCS)
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6 months on the front line of war with a Ukrainian medical unit. (Icarus Films)
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Explores the interrelation between energy, the economy, resources, population, psychology, spirituality, the biosphere, the limits to growth and climate change. (Bullfrog Films)
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Documents the Japanese government’s re-writing of textbooks and education to support their political point of view. (Icarus Films)
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World renowned for his painting The Scream – now a universal symbol of anguish, Edvard Munch is a painter of emotions, which he was able to express with unparalleled power. The film explores his work through the prism of nature. (Cinétévé)
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Throughout the years, women have been a minority in the Israeli Parliament (Knesset).This series documents their struggle for representation and a seat at the decision-making table, women's legislation, the harassment they undergo, gender inequality and the possibility of heading a political party and even becoming Prime Minister. (First Hand Films)
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When the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, Elena becomes the face of the struggle against the opaque bureaucratic process and a racist, hostile society, to stay in a country built on the labor of her forefathers. (Pragda STREAM)
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A young Sami singer and activist conquering screens and stages. (First Hand Films)
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For almost 40 years, partners Marianne Edain and Steve Erikson have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN). (Bullfrog Films)
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A Muslim chaplain, a French biologist, a Qatari princess and eight other women pull 120-pound sledges across the fast-disappearing Arctic Sea ice to become the last-ever team to reach The North Pole. (GOOD DOCS)
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Introduces Laotians who lived through the Vietnam-era US bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today. Features local and foreign experts who explain the scope and hazards of the problem as well as how unexploded ordinance (UXO) is removed safely. (Bullfrog Films)
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Mother Jones, a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the United Mine Workers during the early part of the 20th century, in a riveting performance by Kaiulani Lee. (Bullfrog Films)
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In a city determined to keep them apart, they dared to unite. (GOOD DOCS)
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In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to bring people together to pass a landmark criminal justice bill — and finds himself under fire from all sides. (GOOD DOCS)
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A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. (Icarus Films)
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Tells stories of people who are working to lower our carbon footprint with impactful new ways to gather and prepare the food we need. The series looks at five important areas where we can make changes—farming in the ocean and the air, finding new food sources, learning from Indigenous agriculture, and rescuing the food we already have. (Bullfrog Films)
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A grave warning of how far state control of women’s bodies can go, Teodora Vásquez, was sentenced to thirty years in a Salvadorean prison after she suffered a stillbirth. (Women Make Movies)
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A pulsating three-part series where we meet some of the most outspoken, creative and interesting musicians of today (with Fela Kuti in the background), redefining the image of Africa, from Dakar in the west through Accra, Lagos and Luanda to Johannesburg. (First Hand Films)
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Takes us to a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait of a people attempting to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict. (Collective Eye Films)
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A Latina single mother fights against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation's most polluted zip codes. (GOOD DOCS)
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A group of people have gathered in what used to be the village grocery store. Among the vineyards in rural France, they are trying to start a platform for broadcasting documentary films. (Icarus Films)
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After the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP in 2016, more than 200 guerrillas enter a demobilization camp where rebels prepare for a life without arms. (Pragda STREAM)
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Takes a hard look at routine gun violence in America through the eyes of its trauma surgeons. (GOOD DOCS)
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Two Chinese millennial women struggling with patriarchal culture work to save an ancient secret language created by women banned from reading or writing. (GOOD DOCS)
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The indigenous Saìmis finally get back their stolen ancestral heritage while filmmaker Suvi West recreates the outside image of the Saìmis for the wellbeing of the whole nation. (First Hand Films)
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Hosted by historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer, this series tackles the most complex and urgent global issue to emerge since the Cold War era: Can the human race reconcile the current rate of global development with a finite environment? (Bullfrog Films)
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In a world increasingly less transparent, where the shortcut of populism lurks to endanger democracies, this film compels us to ask ourselves if any society, however stable, can be considered invulnerable to a populist irruption and its consequences. Populism isn’t an ideology. It’s a way of governing. (Pragda STREAM)
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Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the freak show. (GOOD DOCS)
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A film about the globalization of Carolina, Bertha (daughter of Berta Caceras) and Maxima’s environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down transnational corporations for their misdeeds in Latin America in the name of development. (First Hand Films)
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Charts a literary journey from post-war lesbian pulp to modern bestsellers. (Collective Eye Films)
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Follows the extraordinary steps ordinary people are taking to help millions with chronic diseases find their way back to health. (Bullfrog Films)
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International Emmy® Award Best Documentary. An unprecedented investigation into a generation of young victims of the war against the Islamic State. (Cinétévé)
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A moving and intimate portrayal of one father’s fight to save his son, this film exposes the brutal realities of the campaign to free Julian Assange. (Bullfrog Films)
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Emmy® Award Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. Set against the backdrop of the fight to close the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson, this film captures the essential and hard truth of the lives at the center of the debate over reproductive healthcare in America. (Collective Eye Films)
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Jaffa, once a major port in the Middle East and the sister city of Tel Aviv, has grown into an international tourist center, a coveted destination and last but not least a true real estate gem. Tourists, partygoers and its residents are charmed by Jaffa’s oriental style and romantic authenticity, but beneath the shiny surface lurk racism, greed and injustice. (First Hand Films)
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A journalist and former political prisoner living in exile in Germany, reports on the men charged with mass detention and torture in Assad's prisons, at the world's first trial against member of the Syrian regime, for crimes against humanity. (First Hand Films)
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During years of solitude in an Alsatian village following the end of a relationship, Frank Beauvais found solace in the screen by watching films obsessively. He then crafted an audiovisual diary by editing shots of the films he was devouring, in which he links his private life with world events. (KimStim)
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Explores the phenomenon of FGM as experienced by African immigrant women in Quebec. (National Film Board of Canada)
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The film follows Chief Sayers through a series of discussions with community members that explore the underlying social and ecological approaches of Batchewana's fisheries as well as perspectives about its history, current practices, and future directions. (Collective Eye Films)
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A filmed diary of the daily life in the biggest Palestinian refugee camp – Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria and its besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy. (Lightdox)
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A film about a friendship between the filmmaker and a fisherman. One lost his mother-tongue because of a stutter, the other lost his hearing during the Bosnian civil war. They look for ways to communicate, while the camera mediates their growing bond. (Lightdox)
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Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of the Guaraní Kaiowá genocide. A conflict of disproportionate forces: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guaraní Kaiowá against the powerful apparatus of agribusiness. (Pragda STREAM)
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Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows waste to the shores, mountains, and ocean floor. (Icarus Films)
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Captures Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas‘s artistic process and philosophy as he creates a re-purposed, car-hood art for the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. (Bullfrog Films)
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An intimate look at the migrant death crisis in a small Texas town. (GOOD DOCS)
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Explores the history of the CFA Franc and monetary colonization in Africa. (Icarus Films)
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Inside the remnants of an abandoned utopian project, a young life persists in the form of a fierce little girl. As the city around her transforms, so looms an end to childhood dreams. (Lightdox)
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An explosive social revolution brought 1.5 million Chileans to their feet. It was the event Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile) had been waiting for. (Icarus Films)
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The filmmaker traces her sister’s disappearance from Sicily to Tunisia to Libya, discovering that her boat capsized in in the Mediterranean Sea. What she confronts are graveyards full of missing migrants, and a labyrinth of ignorance and indifference. (First Hand Films)
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A hybrid film about life in Myanmar in the aftermath of its military coup. (Icarus Films)
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A young, gay Romani couple from a remote village in Hungary make a musical film based on their lives. (First Hand Films)
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Academy Award® Best Documentary. Follows Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, through his political rise, attempted assassination and search to uncover the truth. (GOOD DOCS)
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In the background of some of the most intrenched conflicts on the planet, we see the conflicts through the eyes of the negotiators and learn of their challenges and their personal sacrifices as they try to resolve conflicts in the most difficult of circumstances. (First Hand Films)
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Anya was an ordinary teenager who dreamed of making life in Russia better. In March 2018, she was arrested and incarcerated on fabricated charges of extremism. Three years later, her mother continues her desperate fight to prover her daughter's innocence. (Autlook)
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One evening in the 1980s, Qiu Fu is killed in an accident and must reluctantly set off for the Ghost City. (dGenerate Films)
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From father to son, the love we pass on... Pulls the audience into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’ toughness — an echo of the miners’ brave and glorious past underground. (Lightdox)
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Re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image. (Icarus Films)
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Our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with North Sea Oil gets ever more complex as we hurtle towards climate breakdown. Is the era of North Sea oil over? (Bullfrog Films)
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Explores the abuses of the US army against French civilians after WWII. (Icarus Films)
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The story of the desctruction of one single bullet, told over many years of investigation. (First Hand Films)
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Documents the mood on the streets of Uruguay between 1987 and 1989 following the approval of a law granting amnesty for all crimes and human rights violations committed by the army and police during the dictatorship. (Pragda STREAM)
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Pasang Lhamu Sherpa battled racism, gender discrimination, and political opposition in her quest to become the first Nepali woman to summit Mt. Everest. (GOOD DOCS)
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For 18 years, director Claire Doyon has been filming Pénélope, her daughter with autism. The film traces the relationship between mother and daughter through different stages – the shock of the diagnosis, the fight against it, the resolve, the acceptance and discovery of a different mode of existence. (Lightdox)
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Academy Award® Best Short Documentary. Follows a drama group for senior citizens, as they create and perform a play about looking for dates through the personal ads. (The Fanlight Collection)
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Explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities. (GOOD DOCS)
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A grassroots network fights to expand access to abortion pills across the US, keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade. (GOOD DOCS)
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Why would someone fake an indigenous identity? That question is the premise of The Pretendians, as we cross Canada revealing what really lies behind this explosive issue. (Collective Eye Films)
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Tells the stories of modern slaves in textiles manufacturing supply chains and the brave individuals fighting on the ground against immeasurable odds to help them. (Collective Eye Films)
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Takes an ecological approach to unraveling the climate crisis. (Bullfrog Films)
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A unique art-history saga, this film recounts the troubling story of the African artwork that fills European museums, and whose return is now being demanded by their countries of origin. (Cinétévé)
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Scientists, physicians, and survivors of cardiac arrest explore the liminal space between life and death, breaking down these stunning scientific breakthroughs to tell the remarkable, scientific story of what happens after we die. (Collective Eye Films)
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Explores the community of data protection activists. (First Hand Films)
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Academy Award® Best International Feature Film Submission (Canada). Interviews members of the Islamic State who want to establish a caliphate. (Icarus Films)
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In the heart of Paris, a prestigious high school takes an audacious bet: integrate students from working-class districts and make them break the circle of school failure through dance and hip hop. (Distrib Films)
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The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan. (Collective Eye Films)
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Depicts Guor Mading Maker's difficult and triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete. (Bullfrog Films)
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Sam Harkness and his half brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom, but solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their 25-year quest for answers. (GOOD DOCS)
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Six Iranian women: An artist, schoolteacher, journalist, athlete, musician and actress cannot conform to a life in censorship. Once they have escaped the "SĀNSŪR" and enter a life in exile, can they let down their mask and be truly free? (GOOD DOCS)
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Gives viewers a ringside seat as a new, more therapeutic and empathetic approach to mental health care emerges. (Bullfrog Films)
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Maîtres Christine Mengus, Nohra Boukara and Audrey Scarinoff put their hearts and souls into defending immigrants in France. (AndanaFilms)
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A lyrical and sensitive autobiographical exploration of the filmmaker's family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence. (GOOD DOCS)
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In the violent times of a post-revolutionary Mexico, a complex and divided country, the ideas of a man paved the way towards social transformation. Radical, practical, and courageous, Lázaro Cárdenas and a socialist dream shaped the future of a Mexico in reconstruction with their political concepts. (Pradga STREAM)
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Offers deeply inspiring insights into a new vision for humanity, with concrete ideas that will pave the way for solving some of the world's most challenging problems. (First Run Features)
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A filmmaker explores the death of his cousin, who was killed while on a Russian army mission. (Icarus Films)
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A young woman from rural Oregon whose dream of becoming an astrophysicist is nearly derailed when she suffers a devastating tragedy. (Collective Eye Films)
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In April 1918, while Europe was plunged into WWI, an extremely violent flu swept across every continent. Wrongly called "Spanish flu", it raged for two years, causing the death of more than 50 million people before disappearing and falling into oblivion. (Cinétévé)
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Stewart Lee Udall was the most prominent and effective Secretary of the Interior in American History. This film examines the trajectory of Udall's life from his childhood through his time in Congress, and then most significantly, his years as Secretary of the Interior and beyond. (Bullfrog Films)
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Academy Award® Nominee. A US Marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque, but his plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face to face with the people he sets out to kill. (GOOD DOCS)
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This character-driven documentary connects the transformative stories of three Indigenous multimedia changemakers and their four Elders. (Bullfrog Films)
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Animated film based on the life and stories of Manga writer Yoshihiro Tatsumi who revolutionized the art form with darker, more adult stories. (KimStim)
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Comprised of rare amateur travelogues shot by women between the 1920s-50s, this film weaves together questions of mobility, the gaze, and early female filmmaking, in a film essay about past worlds and cinematic excavation. (Lightdox)
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Under cover of the night, ride along with two activists from the Environmental Protection Agency of Kuala Langat in search of illegal recycling facilities while learning about their work to expose, fight and prevent the illegal importation of plastic waste being sent to Malaysia from overseas. (Bullfrog Films)
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The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation. (First Hand Films)
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The historical and societal importance of games, what chess is and isn't, and why it's an ideal vehicle to explore the captivating link between games and culture. (Ideas Roadshow)
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Explores the quest for an HIV vaccine in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. (Icarus Films)
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Academy Award® Nominee. Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. (National Film Board of Canada)
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Four remarkable young women fight for a Green New Deal and ignite a historic shift in us climate politics. (GOOD DOCS)
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A film director shows long forgotten, historical footage of Togo to modern day audiences. (Icarus Films)
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A high profile battle erupts over images of African American Slaves and Native Americans in New Deal-era murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco, leading to a passionate outpouring of activism and opinions about art, history, and racial reckoning in America. (Bullfrog Films)
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A 3 mile long Nazi resort built taking cues from American industrial titan Henry Ford, is redeveloped as a contemporary vacation destination; how do we reconcile its history with modern commercial forces? (First Run Features)
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How the Baltic states are fighting against Russian disinformation. (Dutch CORE)
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Chronicles the lives of courageous Americans fighting for peace, racial equity, environmental justice and indigenous rights through the eyes of Robert Shetterly, a long time activist and artist. (Bullfrog Films)
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Kids taken from their homes and interrogated, violating international law. Almost all of the children are convicted and sent to prison. Behind the official reasoning there's an underlying systemic motive: when a child is jailed, its family won't make any noise. (First Hand Films)
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Highlights community archives across British Columbia to reveal some of what has been erased from the official record. The people and places left out of traditional archives and museums are often determined by the dominant power, but as UBC’s Dr. Henry Yu states, “the process of silencing makes a lot of noise.” (National Film Board of Canada)
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How can refugee children integrate into Quebec’s school system, given the unspeakable violence they’ve experienced? (National Film Board of Canada)
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Follows three different groups of commercial mushroom pickers as they travel on the "mushroom circuit"—a year-round migration that can take them anywhere from Alaska to California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming—to harvest wild mushrooms from public forests. (Collective Eye Films)
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Women shopping for bras in a world dominated by war, men, faith—their mothers and grandmothers choose what suits their bodies best. The film powerfully demonstrates self-determination, sensitivity, sensuality and sexuality. (First Hand Films)
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Celebrating the African roots, history, lineage and future progressions of jazz dance through a social and political lens. (GOOD DOCS)
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A filmmaker discovers that her hometown of Ames, IA, was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project. (Bullfrog Films)
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Determined to turn tragedy into action, survivors of a school shooting catalyze an unprecedented youth movement that spreads like wildfire across the world. (GOOD DOCS)
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Natalia Almada's cinematic meditation on technology and motherhood. (Icarus Films)
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A film as necessary as it is beautiful, Vicenta explores the struggle for the right to a legal, safe, and free abortion. (Pragda STREAM)
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an inspiring and compelling one hour documentary that invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models. (Collective Eye Films)
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Explores an experiment in public education: Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Bullfrog Films)
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Emmy® Award Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Three strangers are tragically bound together by a weekend of gun violence, and a five-year journey to navigate recovery and forgiveness. (371 Productions)
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Go behind-the-scenes as the staff at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Musuem strives to diversify their art collection, where 90% of the art was made by white men. (Icarus Films)
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What started as one man's quixotic dream has turned to reality. For the past three years, the 65-foot Schooner Apollonia has been delivering goods up and down the Hudson River by sail sans fossils fuels - a throwback to a day when there were 1200 such boats on the river each day. It turns out buyers prefer the non-polluting, anti-Amazon way of making deliveries. (Bullfrog Films)
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Demonstrates how some of the biggest international stories of recent memory are shaped by women. An all-female cast of directors present four never-before-told stories about the women who risked their lives for peace, changing history in the process. (Collective Eye Films)
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Since 2011, Cincinnati has been home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building a more equitable economy from the ground up. (Bullfrog Films)
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With time lapse videography of rotting in action, this film creates an intimate, immersive world where decay can be beautiful, tender and even surprisingly human. (Bullfrog Films)
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Wang Bing's epic profile of Chinese garment workers. (dGenerate Films)
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21 young Americans are suing the government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. If they win, they will change the future. (GOOD DOCS)
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Diverse middle schoolers compete in a NASA tournament to code surveying satellites that will orbit Mars. (GOOD DOCS)
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