Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on his family: Haji Omar, the patriarch; Anwar, the eldest, his father's favorite, a pastoralist and expert horseman; Jannat Gul, cultivator and ambitious rebel; and Ismail, the youngest, attending school with a view to a job as a government official.
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11: Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret mission...
This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...
This documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse in...
A poignant story about overcoming our demons and finding hope through darkness. Haunted by the affec...
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo B...
This documentary explores Nigeria's cultural practice of marking, including its origins and meaning ...
French documentarist Sonia Kronlund follows actor and director Salim Shaheen, an Afghan movie star w...
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...
In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...
Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army loca...
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It f...
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...
In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward ...