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Fall 2010 Releases
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All Restrictions End - Reflections on Islam and clothing, Iranian cinema, Persian painting and more characterize this thought-provoking artistic documentary. (new September, 2010)
Banking the Unbanked - As a team of managers in Gambia try to build a microfinance business, they learn that the loans may be small - but the stakes are very high. (new September, 2010)
Behind the Rainbow - An in-depth exploration into the recent internal conflicts of the ANC in South Africa, leading to Jacob Zuma's election as president. (new September, 2010)
Congo in Four Acts - A quartet of short films (on one dvd) that lay bare the reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (new September, 2010)
Disco and Atomic War - The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost. (new September, 2010)
Earth Keepers - A global quest to meet key visionaries working on innovative approaches to building an environmentally sustainable future. (new September, 2010)
Final Fitting - Showcases the changing cultural styles of Iran and its clerical elite through its portrait of one master tailor and his time-honored craft. (new September, 2010)
For the Best and for the Onion! - A verite documentary that captures the rhythms of agricultural life in Niger, and how the vagaries of market price and harvest can affect the most intimate personal decisions. (new September, 2010)
Glassy-Eyed - After painter Bill Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he began his greatest body of work - a decade-long series of self-portraits chronicling his journey into dementia. (new September, 2010)
Japan, The Emperor and the Army - Examines how Japan's demilitarization in the months following the WWII continues to resonate today — in Japanese politics, national identity and cultural influence on the international stage. (new September, 2010)
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K.O.R. - An insider's look at Poland's dissident Workers Defense Committee - and how the group's actions led directly to the formation of the Solidarity union and the end of Poland's Communist regime. (new September, 2010)
The Koran: The Origins of the Book - Explores the origins and history of the Koran - where Muslim tradition and scientific research converge. (new September, 2010)
Ladies in Waiting - A maternity clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo copes with its patients' lack of money while trying to provide the best-intentioned care. (new September, 2010)
Loss - An examination of German Jewish life and culture and the lasting intellectual, moral and spiritual void that loss has meant to their fatherland. (new September, 2010)
Middletown - This classic series, created by Emmy and Academy Award winner Peter Davis, explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana. (new September, 2010)
Open Sky - When an open-pit silver mine comes to an isolated, desert community in Argentina, corporate and government interests clash with those of the local population. (new September, 2010)
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands - The Alberta tar sands, the world's largest industrial, capital and energy project has far-reaching environmental impact. (new September, 2010)
Presumed Guilty - A searing examination of the Mexican criminal justice system through the case of one man, wrongly accused of murder. (new September, 2010)
Rabbit à la Berlin - 2010 Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Short Subject. The history of the Berlin Wall from the rabbits' point-of-view. (new September, 2010)
Shadi - Moved by the economic hardships of the Iranian theater troupe the "Joy Makers" world-renowned French stage director, Ariane Mnouchkine invites them to perform in Paris. (new September, 2010)
Siah Bâzi: The Joy Makers - A look at how folkloric entertainment is challenged by modern political and economic changes in Tehran. (new September, 2010)
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State of Mind - Therapist Albert Pesso trains mental-health care works in Kinshasa, Congo, in a technique to help genocide survivors overcome the traumas they witnessed and endured. (new September, 2010)
Stolen Land - Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land. (new September, 2010)
Surrounded by Waves - A global exploration of the health impacts of electromagnetic waves in our wireless technology. (new September, 2010)
New Releases from the Fanlight Productions Collection
Awakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997 - Documents the power to transform pain into action and to lift the veil of repression that has gripped a generation of young people orphaned by Argentina's 'Dirty War.' (new September, 2010)
Dying to Live - Captures a year in the lives of four people waiting for life-saving organ transplants. (new January, 2011)
Famous 4A - Set in a hospice care center, captures the bond shared between patients and caregivers, grown children and their ailing parents, while challenging stereotypes of aging and dying. (new September, 2010)
Flying People - A world champion kite flyer shares his passion for flight with a man blind from birth in this tale of friendship that challenges our notions of disability. (new September, 2010)
Left in Baghdad - An American soldier returns from Iraq without his left arm and adapts to life with new physical challenges. (new September, 2010)
Luckey - A highly engrossing family drama about a successful artist who must cope with his sudden paralysis following an accident. (new September, 2010)
Song of the Soul: Stories of Hospice in South Africa - An inside look at urban and rural hospice centers across South Africa that provide community-based compassionate care in the face of widespread poverty. (new September, 2010)
Stroke - A personal film diary of a man's rehabilitation from a life threatening brain-stem stroke. (new September, 2010)
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Spring 2010 Releases
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Food Design - A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow. (new January, 2010)
Grand Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to turn Paris into the model super-metropolis for the 21st century, and plenty of world-class architects would like the job. (new February, 2010)
Henry Miller - An intimate and revealing look at Henry Miller, and his life and work through this program from the archives that originally aired on television in Quebec in 1969. (new January, 2010)
Jack Kerouac - A charming program from Quebec television 40+ years ago. Jack Kerouac talks about his childhood, writing On the Road and the origin of the word "beat." (new January, 2010)
Paris, 19th Century - Architectural historian François Loyer, an expert on 19th-century Paris, examines the foundation of the modern city in Georges-Eugène Haussmann's massive "renovation" of the 1860s. (new February, 2010)
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Paris Ring - The story of the road round Paris, the most significant 'redevelopment' project in Paris since Haussmann's time. (new February, 2010)
Stolen Art - In New York City in 1978, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art. (new January, 2010)
Tagged - Playful, smart and engaging, TAGGED stealthily taps into a widespread sense of unease raised by the technological development of human implanted microchips. (new January, 2010)
This Way Up - Near Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues, a few feet from a senior citizens' home. (new January, 2010)
Three Songs about Motherland - A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities today. (new January, 2010)
Views on Vermeer - 10 contemporary artists and writers invite us to discover or re-discover the painter's work, and to appreciate it in new ways. (new February, 2010)
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