"Premier Plan" Program: An interview with Simone de Beauvoir
In this interview filmed in Paris for Radio-Canada in 1959, Simone de Beauvoir explains her philosophy, existentialism, her political commitment, and her theories on atheism and free love. She also talks about the proces..
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..
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 inves..
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff convincingly argues that the link between cholesterol and heart disease is tenuous and that its persistence results from a potent mix of bad science, entrenched interests, and pharmaceutical ..
Chore Wars
Should you tell your partner "I love you" by sending flowers? Or by doing the dishes! As dual incomes become necessary to meet today's family's expenses, increasingly more women continue to enter the work force. With bo..
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..
Dead Souls - Part 2
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..
Dead Souls - Part 3
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..
East of War
White-tile rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs from the exhibition entitled VERNICHTUNGSKRIEG (War of Extermination) documenting the atrocities committed by the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. ..