Not just a music film. Not just a ballet film. Not just a political film essay. Here, an antique Greek tragedy serves as an astute metaphor for the country's current tragedy. Medea kills her own children. Society has turned against its offspring and thus kills their future. The balletic retelling of a mother murdering her two kids, choreographed by Renato Zanello, is based on E...
What gives your life meaning Family, yoga, good food, those shoes that were on sale Ray Robertson outlines this own list in his non-fiction book "Why Not: Fifteen Reasons To Live" And that has inspired Alan Zweig's documentary feature 15 Reasons To Live, which takes up that list as a call to adventure. The 15 reasons are: Love, Solitude, Critical Mind, Art, Individuality, Ho...
For over thirty years, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz has documented New York street life, most famously in his legendary images of the early hip-hop scene, collected in his book "Back in the Days." Shabazz has traveled the world taking pictures, cementing his reputation as one of the great contemporary photographers. Director Charlie Ahearn became enamored with the p...
In January 2012, the largest student strike in the history of Québec is triggered. The documentary provides unprecedented access '' Le printemps érable '' view from inside.
An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They give birth to a girl and a boy and live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community. Nobody realizes that behind dozens of mysterious terror attacks which shake the State of Israel in the late 1960s stands no other than the Arab father. When he is caught, his Jewish wife and kids become "the family members of an Arab terrorist." Th...
The peculiar inhabitants of the tiny Crossroad Street in Riga always end up in the most unexpected situations that only life could invent. This film follows their everyday lives, their joys and woes, in the times of global economic recession. The small community becomes a mirror of the society.
102 min., 16:9, LAT, RUS, ENG subtitles
From beatnik to mod, from folkie to disco tart, from glam rocker to, most recently, crooner of American standards, Rod Stewart has had a remarkable musical journey. Alan Yentob visits Rod at his homes in Beverly Hills and Essex and talks to his friends and family, including all eight children aged from two years old to 50.
Featuring rare archival footage of Rod when he was bare...