Farida, Rachid, Zinedine et les autres

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly...

Runtime

59m

Director

Robert Mugge

Cast

Sun Ra, June Tyson, Danny Thompson

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch

Cast

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Marilù Parolini, Jean-Pierre Sergent

THE ARYANS is Mo Asumang's personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest. In The ARYANS Mo questions the completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Mo Asumang

Cast

André Aden, Rebecca Lina, Tom Metzger

Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a 2,000-year-old tradition known as sake. A cinematic documentary, The Birth of Sake is a visually immersive experience of an almost-secret world in which large sacrifices must be made for the survival o...

Runtime

1h 30m

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular rebirth, Tokyo, the old city of Edo, has become the largest and most futuristic capital in the world in a transformation process fueled by the exceptional resilience of its inhabitants, and nourished...

Runtime

1h 30m

Cast

Eric Chantelauze, Matthieu Buscatto, François Montagut