Bored of the parties and luxuries that come with her socialite lifestyle, Claire Boltwood longs for something more authentic in her life. Desperate for adventure, Claire and her father decide to travel from New York City to the Pacific Northwest in their automobile, a new privilege enjoyed by the rich. Though he is a clever businessman, Claire's father knows nothing about cars, so he encourages Claire to drive, challenging the gender stereotypes of...

"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...

Tells the story of a chronically underlooked crisis that's dogging the rural American South. By rescuing countless dogs from euthanasia and neglect, a group of intrepid women in northwest Georgia have stepped up to compensate for the lack of a local animal shelter — taking matters into their own hands. Punctuated by traditional bluegrass tunes, this authentic indie doc is the perfect combo of warm fuzzies and a serious, sometimes heartbreaking mission....

In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim Resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes...

Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are taking place in all political and scientific camps. FREE LUNCH SOCIETY provides background information about this idea and searches for explanations, possibilities and experiences regarding its implementation. Featuring internationally renowned social scientist, scholar, and activist Frances...

Set in the provocative and distinctive world of converted storefront churches and based on actual events, FREE IN DEED depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother on the brink of profound desperation brings her tormented young son to church for healing, a lonely Pentecostal minister is not only forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child, but his own inescapable demons as well. And the more he prays,...

Who owns the rights to the violence of the past - the victim or the perpetrator? Tamara Lanier battles Harvard for daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestor - images taken by force to "prove" the racist theory of a Harvard professor.

When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets the strange residents against each other with tragicomic results in this darkly funny and absurdist gem of contemporary Chinese Cinema.. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema - Dramatic Feature at the and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for Best Director and Best Feature Film at the Golden Horse Film Festival.....

Review three great discoveries by the "grandfather" of gravity research, Galileo Galilei. His most famous experiment may never have happened, but his principle of inertia, law of free fall, and principle of relativity are the basis for everything that comes later in the science of gravity"”including key breakthroughs by Einstein.

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema. Achieving the near-impossible task of doing justice in a mere 82 minutes to this incredibly rich, varied, and expansive domain, Free radicals is as expertly constructed an introduction to the topic as one could hope for, thanks in large part to the...