Gaza Surf Club
In a country locked between Egypt and Israel, Gaza’s youth are drawn to their beaches. Weary of the daily ‘state of emergency’ they seek meaning and perspective to their lives through surfing.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Mickey Yamine, Philip Gnadt
Actors: Ibrahim N. Arafat, Mohammed Abu Jayab, Sabah Abu Ghanem
Bottled Life: Nestle’s Business with Water
Do you know how to turn ordinary water into a billion-dollar business? In Switzerland there’s a company which has developed the art to perfection – Nestlé. This company dominates the…
Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic
A national public health emergency is sweeping through North America. In this close examination of the opioid crisis – the most deadly epidemic to devastate the US in recent years…
Pelé
Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified the beautiful game : Pelé, the only man to win three World Cup titles.
Notes on Blindness
After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the…
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks,…
Playboy: Wet & Wild III
“Join the festivities with over two dozen of your favorite PLAYBOY magazine Playmates as they soak the screen with sexy fun. … it’s an aquatic adventure you’ll never forget!”
The First Movie
Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris…
Elvis: Summer of ’56
In 1956, Elvis Presley was in love with small-town girl June Juanico, whom he picked out of the crowd at one of his concerts. This documentary contains never-before-seen home movie…
Finding Farideh
“Finding Farideh” is about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland…
My Country No More
Following the rise and fall of the new American oil boom, My Country No More paints an intimate portrait of a rural community in crisis, forced to confront the meaning…
Holy Silence
As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius…
This Mountain Life
A daughter and her 60-year-old mother’s arduous 2,300-kilometre trek to Alaska is the thread that binds these intimate portraits together.