Garbage Dreams
A 2011 "Notable Video for Adults" as selected by the American Library Association
Filmed over four years, Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys - Adham, a bright precocious 17-year-old; Osama, a charming impish 16-year-old; Nabil, a shy artistic...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Karama Has No Walls
2014 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject, Karama Has No Walls is a gripping, eye-witness account of the tragic day that changed the course of the revolution in Yemen; when pro-government snipers opened fired on a peaceful gather...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Words of Witness
Words of Witness follows a 22-year-old female reporter for the independent newspaper Egypt Independent , as she covers Egypt’s transition to democracy, from the heyday of Tahir Square to Egypt’s first free and fair presidential election. Defying...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
The Light In Her Eyes
Shot on the eve of the Syrian uprising, The Light in Her Eyes is a portrait of a remarkable woman, Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher who 30 years ago founded one of the first religious schools for girls in Syria. It provides unique ins...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Rouge Parole
On December 17, 2010, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself on the streets of Tunis, sparking a popular uprising that toppled a dictator and developed into the Arab Spring. With remarkable never-before-seen footage, Tunisian filmmaker Ely...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Resistencia: Hip Hop in Columbia
An unusual look at the current political and economic crisis in Colombia—including a decades-long civil war, a rampant drug trade, kidnapping for ransom, and financial scandal at the highest levels of the government—through the eyes of young Col...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
I'm Leaving Now
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Luboml: My Heart Remembers
religious tradition and community life coexisted. No quaint rural village, Luboml was an important regional market town, complete with theater, a cinema
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
The Fall of Womenland
The Fall of Womenland is a fascinating documentary on the unique sexual culture of the Mosuo people — a small minority situated in the southwest of China — and one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world.
Without a formal marr...
Contributor(s): Cinema Guild
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Voices of the Children
Tells the story of three people imprisoned as children in Terezin, a WWII Nazi concentration camp for Central European Jews, many of whom were eventually shipped to Auschwitz and other extermination centers. Zuzana Justman, the filmmaker, herself sp...
Publisher: The Cinema Guild, Inc.