Human Rights/Social Justice

Director Wang Hong Hai Present

Filmmakers Present!

This documentary feature explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the residents of the notorious Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis.

Why hasn't Tibet been freed? Who is keeping the movement from going forward? From director Dirk Simon, When The Dragon Swallowed The Sunis a groundbreaking documentary that examines these questions in a quest to understand why the world is still dealing with unsettled issues like the Tibetan cause and what can really be done to eradicate them.

Nominated for an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject.

A heroic David vs. Goliath story over three years in the making, Ruby Yang’s powerful documentary presents an unflinching look at social upheaval in a rural China desperately reaching for modernity.

This is a film about two stand-up comedians –two men joined by spirit and separated by repression. Maung Thura, better known as Zarganar, is Burma’s greatest living comic. Relentlessly victimized by the military junta, he is now in prison. Michael Mittermeier, in stark contrast, is free to practice his art of humor and provocation as one of Germany’s leading stand-up comics.

Director Michael Henry Wilson and Producer Present

The film’s passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzmán’s belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith. - NyTimes

In the Chilean desert, astronomers gaze deep into space for clues to the origin of life. Nearby, women comb for bones buried in the sand, the remains of loved ones who were victims of dictator Augusto Pinochet’s violent regime. Will either group ever find what they’re looking for? Within the juxtaposition of these two quests, director Patricio Guzmàn explores the notion that humanity continually searches for information hundreds of years old and billions of miles away while resisting the urge to examine a 40-year-old history long hidden from full public view. 

Conductor Armand Diangienda Present

This is a great story worth seeing... - Chicago Reader

Audience Award winner at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Kinshasa Symphony is an unexpected and beautiful musical merging of worlds. 

Winner of the SACD Prize in the Director’s Fortnight competition at Cannes Film Festival and the Belgian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. 

Acclaimed Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic highlights the growing massive cultural divide between Eastern and Western Europe in this, his 22nd film in 42 years.