Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – three brilliant African-American women working at NASA in 1961, so the unit was segregated by race and sex.Following the success of Soviet Union’s launch of …
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is …
Latin America’s leading purveyor of politically engaged cinema is back: Sérgio Bianchi returns with a caustic, at times humorous, and always highly provocative look at two hot button subjects in his native Brazil: race relations and economic inequality. Bianchi’s film …
Ten year old Jemenite girl asks a judge in Sana’a to grant her a divorce from a horrible marriage, after she was married away to prevent a public scandal after a rape of her sister. Imbd link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4313646/?ref_=kw_li_tt
The movie tells the story of Einar Wegener – an artist and husband whose life changes drastically, once he sets off on a journey of self-rediscovery. It all starts with an innocent request – Einar’s wife Gerda, also an artist, …
After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions. Imbd link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278928/?ref_=kw_li_tt
The movie is based on a true story in which the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to place his team …
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Steve McQueen (Hunger) directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, …
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make …
Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness is a documentary/art film released in June 2015 that takes audiences through farms and urban landscapes in Japan, South Korea, and the United States, interviewing leading practitioners in the Natural Farming movement.The film began when …
Following the stories of 7 Syrian refugee children in Europe, Born in Syria is one of the rare movies that focus on the whole journey of refugees from their home country to local integration in the host country. It follows …
The movie is inspired in Rubino Romeo Salmoni’s book “Ho Sconfito Hitler”, and by true stories lived by Benigni’s (the actor who plays the main character) own father, who spent two years in a German labor camp during the war. …
This is an adult animated film which follows the story of a young girl, Marjane, as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian/Islamic Revolution. When Islamic Fundamentalists “win” the elections with 99.99% of the vote and start …
Josey Aimes’s return to her native Minnesota after her failed marriage transforms her whole life. The single mother of two urgently needs a job, which she finds in the iron mines that have sustained the life in her hometown for …
This movie tells the story of Andrew Beckett, a talented young lawyer who works for a large corporate law firm in Philadelphia. Andrew hides his homosexuality and the fact that he has AIDS from his colleagues, but when one of …
The movie plot is based on the Rwandan genocide in the spring of 1994. It tells the story of Paul Rusesabagina – a man who tries to save his family and the lives of more than a thousand other refugees …
