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- DirectorAaron YegerThe Roma (Gypsies) faced annihilation during the Nazi 'Final Solution,' yet have been relegated to a footnote in history. Today, the Roma are victims of extreme and often violent racial persecution. A People Uncounted is a powerful journey exposing the tragedy of Europe's largest minority group.
- DirectorJoe HeathStarsJoe HeathBrad HeathStan HeathDeath came for Walt's soul two days early. Now Walt has to spend the rest of his life with Death.
- DirectorJonty ClaypoleStarsMichael RosenD.J. TaylorMichael RadfordA look at the enduring concept of Room 101, the psychological torture chamber created by 'George Orwell' for his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsThomas BlassHerbert WinerBuddy Stump
- DirectorBob HerculesCheri PughStarsEva Mozes KorSami AdwanDan Bar-OnEva Mozes Kor, who survived Josef Mengele's cruel twin experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp, shocks other Holocaust survivors when she decides to forgive the perpetrators as a way of self-healing.
- DirectorCynthia TravisForced to fight in Liberia's civil war, six former child soldiers now battle for peace in post-conflict Liberia. Trading their weapons for cameras and soccer balls, these ex-combatants train as grassroots peacebuilders and re-enter their villages after years of trauma and isolation. In THE FIGHT TO FORGIVE young Liberians discover that their future and a lasting peace for their developing nation depend on one final personal battle--the fight to forgive both themselves and the adults who forced them to kill.
- DirectorLekha SinghRoger Spottiswoode"Beyond Right & Wrong" looks at areas of conflict around the world and asks what it takes to forgive, and what it takes to ask for forgiveness under the most difficult of circumstances. Paired personal interviews of aggressors and victims from Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine, BEYOND RIGHT AND WRONG examines anger, understanding, remorse, tolerance, and sometimes clemency. The survivors' stories are haunting and inspiring, and the film is a meditation on justice and its role in national and personal healing.
- DirectorLaura Waters HinsonCould you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal-two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation. But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today?
- DirectorDan KatzirStarsLen LesserQuinn MeyersRob PaulsenSet in 1989, during the historical week in which the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The film is a poignant story about a unique relationship between a grandfather and his grandson before the boys Bar Mitzvah. The grandfather teaches the boy a small lesson about growing up, while the boy helps the grandfather, a holocaust survivor, open up and tell his story, for the first time.
- DirectorBen LewisStarsMikhail GorbachevVáclav HavelWojciech JaruzelskiGeorge Orwell wrote that in a repressive political system every joke is a "tiny revolution." Jokes were an essential part of the communist experience because the monopoly of state power meant that any act of non-conformity, down to a simple turn of phrase, could be construed as a form of dissent. By the same token, a joke about any facet of life became a joke about communism. Hammer and Tickle recounts a humorous history of the Soviet Union and its satellite states through the jokes that flourished under the oppressive regimes in Russia and parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Jokes, the film contends, were a language of truth under Communism; a language that allowed people to navigate the disconnect between propaganda and reality and provided a means of resisting the system despite the absence of free speech. Using animated sequences, manipulated archival footage, and sketches to resurrect the jokes, the film offers an ironic take on the history of Communism while simultaneously investigating the social and political impact of jokes under Soviet rule. Interviews with Solidarity leader and former Polish president Lech Walesa, hard-line Polish leader General Jaroszelski, German actor Peter Sodann, German satirist and author Ernst Roehl, East German newspaper editor and Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, and academics Christie Davies and Roy Medvedev address the role that jokes played in challenging and weakening the Communist system from the inside even as joke-tellers faced censure or time in the Gulag for voicing their humor. Light and irreverent in its tone, Hammer and Tickle is really about the ultimate seriousness of joking and the use of the power of laughter to overcome hardship. This history of humor under the Soviet regime offers a direct, incontrovertible way to understand what it was like living in a Communist society, and is also proof that the human spirit can never be broken.
- 200547m6.1 (201)TV MovieDirectorLauren LazinStarsZach BraffRyan GoslingKate HudsonBrings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of archival footage, personal photos, and text from the diaries themselves, the film celebrates a group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disappear.
- DirectorMichèle StephensonFive people from five continents tell how they face racism and discrimination in their respective communities.
- DirectorAlexander RamatiStarsHorst BuchholzDidi RamatiPiotr PolkThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
- DirectorJoanna Kos-KrauzeKrzysztof KrauzeStarsJowita BudnikZbigniew WalerysAntoni PawlickiThe rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
- DirectorKarl NerenbergMalcolm HamiltonSusan McGrathStarsMalcolm HamiltonNever Come Back tells the story of the Roma (or 'Gypsy) community in Canada. Characters include Tibor Lukacs, from the Czech Republic, who founded a mostly-Roma soccer team in Hamilton, Ontario; and Tamas Banya, a folk musician from Budapest, who is still seeking refugee status in Canada. After accepting many Roma refugees from central Europe, Canada shifted course and now refuses most Roma who claim they have fled persecution and violence. The film travels to Hungary and the Czech Republic to test the Canadian government's current claim that these are democratic countries that respect and protect Roma human rights. We meet Bela Radics, a Roma man who was sent back to Hungary from Canada,who has a message for Roma still in Canada: Never come back!
- DirectorNatasa von KoppStarsMiroslav TichýA young German author, impressed by photographs of a Czech photographer, goes with his friend's recommendation to visit him. She was welcomed with a combination of the worst rude words. So it all began. This is a film about an old man with no needs and a remarkable past, facing the hype as an artist against his will. There isn't any important city in the world where his unusual work hasn't been exhibited. In this very moment some of the leading metropolis' galleries are exhibiting, for amazed visitors, the photographs taken with the strangest camera ever made. But, while in the art circles worldwide his photos cost up to 12 000 Euros, Miroslav Tichý lives alone in an old, waste house, isolated from the world, surrounded with only a few friends. "They should have come earlier, now it's too late." - he said refusing to talk about the fame. The German director Natasa von Kopp discovers for us the new "Tichý Ocean" in the middle of Europe in the beginning of 21st century. And this film's discovery is as amazing and thrilling as the great discoveries of new seas and continents.
- DirectorJason CohenThe worlds of a former neo-Nazi and the gay victim of his senseless hate crime attack collide by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically shaped both of their lives. They proceed to embark on a journey of forgiveness that challenges both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, eventually leading to an improbable collaboration...and friendship.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
- DirectorGabriel CowanStarsMartin SheenExplores the process of reconciliation and forgiveness in post genocide Rwanda. Through interviews and days of following 4 Rwandans, the story of what led up to the genocide and how the citizens are coping unfolds.
- DirectorGordon J. MurrayStarsSusanne Severeid60-minute t.v. documentary follows the surviving adult twins of infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele's experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. This group of survivors, led by Mrs. Eva Mozes Kor, formed a support group called C.A.N.D.L.E.S, Children of Auschwitz Nazi's Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors, and speak here of their trauma and personal stories. The documentary follows the survivors as they visit Auschwitz, many for the first time since the War. This documentary also covers the mock Inquest in Jerusalem raising serious questions as to whether or not the bones found in Brazil were indeed those of Dr. Josef Mengele.
- DirectorCharles KinnaneStarsJeffrey AzizeClifford AzizeMichael CampoThe story of a band of brothers who travel the world in search of the answers to the burning questions: Who am I? Who is Man? Why do we search for meaning? Their journey brings them into the middle of the lives of the homeless on the streets of New York City, the orphans and disabled children of Peru, and the abandoned lepers in the forests of Ghana, Africa. What the young men discover changes them forever. Through one on one interviews and real life encounters, the brothers are awakened to the beauty of the human person and the resilience of the human spirit.
- DirectorRéka BucsiForty-seven brief but vivid vignettes about the paradoxical nature of our world, seamlessly intertwine perplexing scenes of poetical absurdism with the ironic, the grotesque, and the beautiful. Is this the symphony of life?
- DirectorPaul KingStarsHugh BonnevilleSally HawkinsJulie WaltersA young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- DirectorJohn MaloofCharlie SiskelStarsVivian MaierJohn MaloofDaniel ArnaudA documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.