Primavera Lacrimógena

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue a...

Runtime

1h 9m

Director

Walter Ruttmann

Cast

Paul von Hindenburg

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Chris Marker

Cast

Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Amílcar Cabral

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their product abroad where labor is cheaper while so many Americans are unemployed, losing their jobs, and would happily be hired by such companies as Nike.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Michael Moore

Cast

Jim Czarnecki, Elaine Bly

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls l...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Cecilia Peck, Barbara Kopple

Cast

Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire

A fascinating exploration of the literary — The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, by English playwright William Shakespeare (1604) — and lyrical — Othello, by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (1887) — myth of Othello, the desperately tragic story of a Moorish general in the army of the Venetian Republic whose absurd jealousy...

Runtime

53m

Cast

Joel Schultze-Motel, Oliver Magda, Katrin Katz Köbbert