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Like It Is

July 1968 •English

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.

Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark

April 2019 •English

The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and adaptation to a modern use.

O Rei de Copas

November 2018 •Portuguese

Follow all the behind the scenes of Cruzeiro Esporte Clube's conquest and celebration of the Sixth Brazilian Cup. Unpublished images and testimonies of the club's tenth national title.

Qipisa

February 2017 •Inuktitut

The director goes back to her roots in Pangnirtung, amongst her family and community. It leads her to another journey: to Qipisa, the outpost camp from where they were uprooted.

Documentário Brasil Tupinambá

August 2021 •Portuguese

Bruno & Bettina

January 2018 •German

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter. In 1974, he joined the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, which worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck met Adachi in Tokyo in 2018 and talked with him about a wide range of topics, including art, revolution, the influence of western avant-garde art and American underground; the Japanese Red Army; collaboration with secret services; the role of the Left after 1968; and the reasons for failures of leftist ideas and strategies.

Keith Haring: The Message

April 2013 •English

Keith Haring: The Message was released in conjunction with the Keith Haring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Directed by famed designer, Madonna stylist and Haring confidante Maripol, The Message goes pretty deep into both the artist and the city and times he’ll forever be identified with: New York City, circa the 1980s. The focus, as the title indicates, is upon the “struggles that animated” Keith Haring’s work, his activism – in a word, his “message.”

Simply Girl

October 2019 •Portuguese

Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.

Children's Book Press: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2009

Invalid date •English

Children’s Book Press, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) – the first independent, nonprofit publisher of bilingual, multicultural books and stories for children. In the past 33 years, it has served as a vehicle for civil rights, human rights, and social justice, with a profound impact on the children, youth, and adults who better understand their own lives and histories as a result of its books. Childrens Book Press builds the connection between literacy and success, preserves traditions, and helps build a stronger future for our children.

Las Toreras

October 2023 •German

Jackie Brutsche tries to unravel the dark secrets of her family and answer unanswered questions about her mother.

Que tal a vida, camaradas?

August 2017 •Portuguese

Zhuang Alliance Group — Archived Live Stream

May 2020 •English

Josh-awan Bulman details some highlights of the Zhuang Alliance Group's Style Guide.

Traja králi

January 2020 •Slovak

Vinšujem Vám Nový rok hojný

January 1996 •Slovak

Othelo The Great

September 2024 •Portuguese

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice.

Zombies: When the Dead Walk

April 2008 •English

Zombies are part of pop culture, but what are they? Where do they come from? To find real zombies we visit Haiti where Zombies are an integral part of the island's cultural and religious roots.

O Rio de Cada Um

June 2022 •Portuguese

People from different areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, try to answer the following question: for you, what is it like to live in the Marvelous City?

A Farra do Circo

November 2013 •Portuguese

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Duque de Caxias para quem fica

December 2023 •Portuguese

Globe Trekker: Chinatown

April 2007 •English

In this special edition of Globe Trekker Chinatown, Lavinia Tan, Justine Shapiro and Megan McCormick travel worldwide to explore the magic and mystery of Chinatowns across the globe. Lavinia Tan begins the journey in Malaysia and Singapore where overseas traders led the earliest migrations of Chinese people. The journey continues from there to the United States, where Justine Shapiro visits San Francisco. Megan McCormick explores New York s Lower East Side, home to the largest Chinatown in the Western Hemisphere. After a short trip to London s Soho district, Lavinia Tan ends this journey with a visit to Hong Kong exploring the world famous film industry and the 21st century migration of Chinese back to their homeland.