From a pool of 89 feature-length documentaries eligible for Oscar consideration this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary screening committee narrowed the decision to a final 15. The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Rebecca Cammisa (Which Way Home) and Mai Iskander (Garbage Dreams), for officially making the 2009 [...]
The Sundance Documentary Film Program would like to congratulate Ngawang Choephel (Tibet In Song) and Natalia Almada (El General), for their nominations at this year’s International Documentary Association Doc Awards.
Follows Nick Kristof on the current state of journalism and the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the desert of North Chile, astronomers study the ancient universeabove, while women search below for signs of their family members disappearedunder Pinochet’s dictatorship of 1973.
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez quit dealing drugs and found Islam twelve years ago. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side to start a Muslim community and rebuild his shattered family.
At the Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE) clinic in Chennai, India, Dr.Solomon and her staff launch a matrimonial matchmaking service for their positive patients.
Three people are torn from their families during the Salvadoran civil war and attempt to find reconciliation.
Last Train Home is a feature documentary about the world’s largest regular human migration. The story spans one year in the lifetime of the migrant worker Zhang family, whose relationships are torn apart in the rush for change. Now the mother dreams to bring the family together by returning to their ancestral home for the Chinese New Year.
Malana, a remote mysterious village in the Himalayas, has been practicing an ancient form of democracy built on trust. They’ve also been producing some of the finest quality hashish in the world.A unique story of transition, an isolated age old form of democracy for the people getting invaded and overpowered by the modern form – rule of the majority. A real life drama where a fire destroys the village, followed by a process of reconstruction, which blows the horn of extinction for this ancient civilization. Microcosm of a global phenomenon.