What does it take to attract a team to Hellissandur (population: 369)? How about fielding a scrappy football team of your own? Sonic Cinema In "The Home Game," football fans in a tiny Icelandic fishing village built a national FA Cup regulation soccer pitch, but it went unused for 25 years. In "Al Djanat - The Original Paradise," the death of a patriarch in Burkina Faso leads to divisions within the family, in a conflict between traditional Islamic law and the country's legal practices. In Toronto carpenter Khaleel Seivwright went against government bureaucracy to build tiny shelters for the city's homeless, only to become caught between local officials and the public, in "Someone Lives Here." In "Neirud," filmmaker Fernanda Roth Faya explores the mysterious life of an aged family friend, a woman whose colorful history ranged from performing in a circus to wrestling. Jamaican singer Dalton Harris struggles to succeed in the music industry despite homophobia and his own toxic past, in "Dalton's Dream." A pregnant woman, her partner and young son flee Honduras for a better life in "The Caravan." In "Le Spectre de Boko Haram," schoolchildren in Cameroon live under the constant threat of the Islamist militant group. "Total Trust" delves into China's surveillance of human rights attorneys and journalists. In "The Dmitriev Affair," historian Yuri Dmitriev, an "archaeologist of terror," works to unearth those killed during Stalin's "Great Terror" of 1937, history that Russia would prefer to keep buried. In "Shaken," a young couple's scare over their baby's medical emergency turns into a legal nightmare when they are accused of abuse.ĭANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO TRAILER by Cyril Aris - Trailer - English subtitles by The 1960s Kerner Commission, formed to study the eruption of riots and unrest in Black communities, offered findings that proved to be equally inflammatory to the powers-that-be, as studied in "The Riot Report." "Mediha" is comprised of a video diary by a Yazidi teenager from northern Iraq, a former captive of ISIS. In Amy Nicholson's "Happy Campers," vacationers at a Virginia seaside trailer park face their last summer idyll when a developer buys the property. "The Cowboy and the Queen" tells the story of Monty Roberts, a California horse trainer who becomes friends with Queen Elizabeth II. "36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime" looks at the aftermath of the 2015 murder of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill, N.C., as a family, and a community, comes to terms with gun violence and Islamophobia. In "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow," cinematographer Martina Radwan returns to Mongolia, where she'd photographed the plight of homeless Mongolian children, to support three orphans, unprepared for the personal responsibility of taking on their care and education. "How to Come Alive… With Norman Mailer" is a vivid evocation of the literary pugilist and his stand as a public intellectual across decades, a role fueled by his insatiable ego and thwarted by violence.Ī very different artist is brought back into the spotlight with "Obsessed With Light," about dancer Loïe Fuller and her influence at the turn of the century through performances that turned silk and colored lights into a kind of magic. "The Trials of Alan Dershowitz," narrated by Dershowitz, is an examination of the lawyer and professor whose defense of disreputable characters has not always reflected well upon himself.
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