What if someone wrote your autobiography? 200 hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2001, leaving a lifetime of filmed memories, until his student and...

Narrated by Ted Danson and based on the book by Charles Clover, THE END OF THE LINE explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will completely run out of...

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted...

A documentary about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. The event represents the paradox of being singled out by randomness, and so precipitates questions about chance, fate and meaning in life. The film explores seven stories from around the world that raise and respond to...

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a...

Khaled Abu Ali, a Sufi Moslem, actor and artist, helps 2 Jewish actors create on a theatrical show that brings to public awareness the wish to rebuild the third Jewsih Temple, until he finds out that rebuilding the temple means the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest places in...

Zain, a young black Tunisian who works in the fashionable tourist resort of Djerbba is coming home to get married. Home is a remote village in the South of Tunisia where his black ancestors settled as a slave community – Abid Ghbonton - hundreds of years ago with a special trait: performing and...

The story of a Palestinian family living in a congested refugee camp in the Hamas governed Gaza Strip. The two eldest sons' diseases add more hardship to the daily struggle against poverty, illness, suppression and occupation. Will there be any hope to them and to the rest of the family?
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This film tells a son’s desire to connect to his absent father through the audio tape letters “written” by him while working away from home as a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia.

Directors: DZeynel Dogan & Melisa Onel

Produced in the framework of the...

Once a year, the members of the Gnawa tribe of Marrakech along with a she-camel for sacrifice, start their pilgrimage to the a remote mountain. It is a gathering of the brotherhood of the Gnawas where the sacred act of exorcism is being performed. "7 Days of the Mountain Bird" is a vivid and...

In Morocco, an extraordinary woman takes us into a world where no men are allowed, a woman’s world. With her, we lift, in more ways than one, the veil on what it means to be a modern woman in Islam today.

Directors: Karima Zoubir & Hicham Brini

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Two young directors from Ramallah are traveling with a mobile cinema through the remote villages on the winding paths of the West Bank. Their desire is to bring the magic of films to people who never been to the cinema before. The protagonists of this film, the team behind the initiative, are...