All restrictions end: the politics of clothes
This film discusses the evolution of fashion in contemporary Iran. With clothing as the leitmotif, the filmmaker provides the history of Iran, the country of his birth. The film is structured like a collage, interweaving archival footage from Irania...
Dead Souls - Part 1
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiab...
In search of memory: the neuroscientist Eric Kandel, winner of the Nobel Prize
The life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel. A compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th centu...
Fragments of a Revolution
This documentary goes beyond the headlines and the tweets to tell the story of the protests that swept Iran in the aftermath of the disputed 2009 presidential election. Directed by an anonymous Iranian living in exile, the film brings together cland...
For Those Who Sail to Heaven
At the climax of the annual Opet festival in ancient Luxor, the barques of ancient Theban gods were pulled from Karnak to Luxor and then sailed back on the "waters of inundation." Today, the descendants of Luxor's patron saint, Sheikh Sidi Abu'l Haj...
Food design
This film takes a look at the secret chambers of a major manufacturer of food, where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow. It shows how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing...
Final fitting
This film follows Mr. Arabpour, a master tailor and craftsman, and the proprietor of the most famous tailor shop in Qom (Iran’s most important religious center). He speaks to us of the different styles and the many variations on the traditional ab...
Middletown: seventeen
In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and ...
Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow
In the aggressive search for the 'black gold' that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador's rain forest.This documentary investigates the operations of the...
Fat chance
When single mom and filmmaker Yuka Sekiguchi, overweight at nearly 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, determines to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier, she decides to film her struggle, figuring that public humiliation will b...