2009

“It was the first time that agricultural workers from the developing world gave testimony against a US-based multinational in a US court” say the filmmakers of Bananas!* about their film in a letter to the international documentary community. In Los Angeles, Swedish director Fredrik Gertten...

Bassidji opens on a desert, men, children and women in chadors wandering in a vast open air "museum" dedicated to the Iran-Iraq war. A ceremony is organized in the memory of the martyrs of war by supporters of the regime. For almost three years, Mehran...

If you thought Brazilian music started with Carmen Miranda and ended with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beyond Ipanema is just the pulsing primer for you. David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, CSS, and Creed are...

The age-old conflicts between settlers and native are sensitively and intelligently handled in Marco Bechis’ pensive examination of modern day colonialism in southern Brazil. Sparked by a double suicide, a group of Guarani-Kaiowa Indians leave their reserve to set up a ramshackle camp. But, as...

“There you go, we offend nature but we bring nature back to our homes with its scars, with its laments” saddens Raffaele del Giudice, an ecological activist and the main protagonist of Biutiful cauntri. This Italian documentary confronts with the scandalous garbage problem of...

Black Dynamite is a former CIA operative, war veteran and baddest brother on the block. His skills in kung fu are prodigious, his skills with the ladies even more so. Director Scott Sanders and writer-producer-star Michael Jai White have succeeded in doing precisely what...

At least the peas Toni has to eat, says her mother. But Toni is not hungry at all! Maybe the fat mash can help her? But he is very moody today. That is going to be dangerous, because the mother is quite...

On an island of the Philippines, islanders who used to be wealthy go through economic difficulties when a goldmine company withdraws from the area. One day, a Canadian woman’s visit changes everything...