Following the recovery of his young daughter from ukemia, Arunas Matelis returns to the Childrens Cancer Ward at the Vilnius hospital to make a documentary of the daily lives of the hospitalized children. Matelis follows the sick children and their parents without resorting to sentimental or...

In an increasingly global economy, where the profit margins of huge multinational coffee companies continue to rise, prices paid for coffee harvests have reached an all-time low, forcing farmers in some of the world''s poorest countries to abandon their once bountiful fields. Among the hardest...

The actor Severdan Bajram, takes the role of moderator in our encounter with the residents of the Macedonian town of Shuto Orizary, or Shutka for short. The inhabitants of Shutka, the capital of the Gypsies, hold world records in the most bizarre and surreal areas possible. From a collection of...

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The true-life story of a Harlem\’s notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York...

In 2004, Filmmaker Uri Rosenwaks, came to Rahat, a Bedouin town down in Israel\'s Negev Dessert, to teach a group of Black Bedouin women a class in filmmaking.
Rahat is by no means an ordinary place. It is afflicted with pessimism, unemployment, poverty and violence. It is partially...

Four 12-year-old black boys from one of the most violent ghettos in Baltimore, Maryland, are taken 10,000 miles away to an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, to try to take advantage of the educational opportunities they can\'t get in their own country

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A documentary on Chicago-native Freddy Cole, the lesser-known, yet equally talented younger brother of Nat "King" Cole. At age 77, Freddy Cole is, at last, being widely recognized for his amazing musical talent.

The film examines the complicated journey of creating a career in the...

Is there a Nazi movement in Israel? A revival of communist ideology in the streets of Tel Aviv? Ausweis and the Church of Black Communism challenge our pespectives and redefine our borders

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...

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...