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Odin Mitaine
Odin Mitaine
Myra (Rami Margron) lives in San Francisco and Farbelais (Michel Deshayes) in Paris. They are actors working on a play about the relationship between a Client and Dealer. On the side, they have to accompany an android. Influenced by the rehearsal of their show and the surprising humanity of the “beings,” our actors fall in love, only to discover their beloved androids being turned off.
Land of Songs
Aldona Watts
Aldona Watts
Five grandmothers in a Lithuanian village are the last in a long line of traditional folk singers, whose songs have survived centuries of war and occupation. Today, most young people are not continuing this oral tradition. As one granddaughter learns about the village's troubled past, she discovers the importance of her grandmother's songs as chronicles of history, agents of political action, and deep expressions of mourning, healing, and joy. But is it too late?
Last Call: The Specs' Film, Stories of Love, Loss and Lust in a Twenty-first Century Bar
Elly Simmons
Elly Simmons
Last Call: The Specs' Film is a sassy, ribald, romantic and revolutionary triptych portrait of feisty raconteur Specs Simmons, of his infamous bar, Specs' 12 Adler Museum Cafe, and of the lively North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, portraying an entertainment district of iconic cultural importance while telling tales of a unique man and singular neighborhood, exploding with rich visuals, powerful poetry, stirring music and strong politics.
Last Stand on the Island
Carmen Elsa Lopez and Evan Abramson
Carmen Elsa Lopez and Evan Abramson
Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, Edison Dardar arms himself against anyone who tries to move him off the island he loves, as it vanishes into the Gulf of Mexico. He and his neighbors on Isle de Jean Charles are becoming the first environmental refugees in the continental United States. Yet their crusade to remain on the island until its catastrophic end demonstrates the strength of their identity and ancestry, despite the mounting pressures of nature, industry and fellow humans.
Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation
Gina Leibrecht
Gina Leibrecht
Les Blank has made over 30 films about the lives of people living outside the mainstream of American society. His intimate, non-didactic style broke new ground in filmmaking and earned him international acclaim for more than 45 years. Filmmaker Gina Leibrecht provides an unprecedented glimpse behind the making of these films and the tall, soft-spoken filmmaker who unwittingly expanded the notion of what one can make a film about and how to do it, inspiring generations of filmmakers that followed.
Letter From Cloudcroft
Patricia Roberts, Melinda Hess
Patricia Roberts, Melinda Hess
In Letter From Cloudcroft daughter/filmmaker reveals the secret story of her Jewish father's participation in ‘Project Paperclip.’ This military endeavor launches not only rockets but also a new space program in America with the cold war rising on the horizon. The letters home from the filmmaker’s father provide an eyewitness portal into a complex personal and national drama, with a dual lens on family and political history. The treasure hunt to find pieces of her father’s story reveals unlikely allies in unlikely places with most unlikely results.
Life After Life
Tamara Perkins
Tamara Perkins
Harrison and Noel, after committing unthinkable acts as teenagers and being incarcerated for decades are given a chance at Life After Life in prison.
Life Is Junk: The Work of Gerhard Nicholson
Colin Carpenter
Colin Carpenter
Life Is Junk: The Work of Gerhard Nicholson is an intimate short documentary introducing gruff and iconoclastic Berkeley artist Gerhard Nicholson, his remarkable junk-made cameras, and his home/museum full of 50 years' unique art. For the last ten years of his life, Nicholson filmed his artistic process, sharing mundane moments, a sharp, nihilistic sense of humor, and his struggle to keep up with a changing culture and the loss of his beloved partner of 34 years. Interwoven are interviews with the artist and friends.
Life Underground
Herve Cohen
Herve Cohen
Life Underground is a wandering across borders, interconnecting the lives of metro riders of several cities around the world. From Buenos Aires to Moscow, Tokyo to New York, Calcutta to Paris, this poetic and engaging film explores modern social issues of these diverse metropolises such as homelessness, exile, unemployment, xenophobia, but also romance, through pertinent stories of these underground transient dwellers.
A Line in the Sand
Kevin McKiernan
Kevin McKiernan
A Line in the Sand is the story of Yuroks--the largest Native American tribe in California--who discovered their "Indian-ness" during the 1973 confrontation at Wounded Knee. Following the 10-week siege of Wounded Knee by FBI agents, U.S. Marshals and the 182nd Airborne, they returned home to Humboldt County to fight for Yurok sovereignty and fishing rights on the Klamath River. The film is a "then and now" story that is intended to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation, which occurs in 2013.
The Long Way Home
Sam Roden, Nick Hartanto
Sam Roden, Nick Hartanto
Do we find happiness in the individual pursuit of our grandest dreams or in living our lives for those we love? If we can't reconcile these, which do we sacrifice? In this gritty drama about where we find happiness, a young couple faces the crossroads between the risky pursuit of dreams and the safety of settling down.
Looking For My Father Through Ansel Adams’ Lens
Denise Richards and Victoria Whyte Ball
Denise Richards and Victoria Whyte Ball
An artist struggles to resolve her relationship with her father after his death. While exploring his archives, she learns that he had been a student in San Francisco’s first photography class taught by Ansel Adams in 1945. She reaches out to his former classmates for answers to his identity as an artist and discovers a treasure-trove of photos documenting post-World War II San Francisco, the Civil Rights movement, and the Chinese immigrant experience.
Lost Treasure Hunt
Matthew G. Davis
Matthew G. Davis
Two young secret agents use their knowledge of history to uncover clues and solve mysteries in search of lost historical artifacts. Filmmakers include animation professionals from major studios collaborating with nationally recognized scholars. Lost Treasure Hunt is intended to give children an in-depth look at various historical and humanities subjects. (documentary mixed with animation)