
China’s New Silk Road (2019)
What China has baptized ‘The New Silk Road’ allows a pair of trainers to be transported by train from China to France in under two weeks. On the Horn of Africa, the Chinese state has recently set up a military port and constructed an ultra modern railway serving Ethiopia. Since 2013 the ‘Middle Kingdom’ has invested billions into projects like these to pave the way for Chinese expansionism.
Beslan: Three Days in September (2006)
In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330…
Medium (2020)
A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her…
The Hurt Business (2016)
From the producers of ‘Bowling for Columbine’, ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and ‘Generation Iron’ comes ‘The Hurt Business’ which examines the rise of mixed martial arts fighting through the eyes of today’s…
Aganai: Me and the Cult Leader – A Modern Report on the Banality of Evil (2021)
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo’s subway system, travels with Hiroshi Araki, an executive of Aleph (formerly Aum Shinrikyo), the attack’s perpetrators, visiting their…
Speed Demons (2018)
When a popular honors graduate becomes an unlikely campus gunman, citizen sleuths embark across the country to investigate the metamorphosis of a respected prosecutor turned mass shooter.
Risking Light (2018)
Dawn Mikkelson’s Risking Light is a meditation on forgiveness, layered with a theme that is rarely seen on the screen—forgiving the unforgivable. Five years prior to making the film, Mikkelson…
King Cohen (2018)
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of “Black Caesar,” “It’s Alive,” “God Told Me To,” “Q,” “The Stuff,” and…
What Happened in Vegas (2017)
Ramsey Denison investigates a terrifying pattern of police corruption and discovers that behind the shimmering surface of Las Vegas lies a police department with individuals willing to go to any…
Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for ‘public indecency’ in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990…
Hello Privilege. It’s Me Chelsea (2019)
In this documentary, Chelsea Handler explores how white privilege impacts US culture – and the ways it’s benefited her own life and career.
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021)
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years…
Uncovered: The McMartin Family Trials (2019)
A look at how a child abuse case engulfed a California beach community in 1983 and became a modern-day witch hunt.