Budrus Has A Hammer follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter jumps into the fray.
Cinema Jenin is a Fellini-esque documentary comedy taking place in the West Bank city of Jenin following a local initiative to re-open the old and only cinema in the city.
Director: Nino Kirtadze
The Georgian Year takes an intimate look at a defining year for this young democracy, from the presidential elections in January 2008 to a state of chaos and war and the resulting aftermath.
This fable of power takes place in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia. From the presidential elections in January 2008, when everything [...]
July 20, 2009
This weekend, Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat, a Sundance Institute Artist Trustee, sat at our annual Board Retreat and described in terrifying detail a situation we all know about, but perhaps not in enough detail. Among many others recently arrested in Iran’s post-election demonstrations are Iranian artists, journalists, filmmakers and human rights leaders, including [...]
Follows the dynamic ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team over four years and several continents in their pursuit of international justice by the first permanent court.
While preparing her rough cut for the upcoming Documentary Edit and Story Lab in Utah, director Carol Dysinger shared with us her love of film and her experience shooting in Afghanistan.
Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of several rotations of U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and a few of the Afghan officers they have been sent to train. These men have been given the enormous task of building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution capable of providing security, stability, and a civilian government to a tattered, volatile nation.
Filmed in Yemen, Release is a family drama about two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that would lead to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Release is the second documentary (after My Country, My Country) in a trilogy titled The New American Century about America post 9/11.
Director: Glenn Baker
Producer: Stephen Sapienza
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan
Easy Like Water is a feature documentary about floating schools, solar power, and the fate of the earth.
In Bangladesh, solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning. As the water steals the land, one [...]