A Question Of Silence

In Culture Wars the civil war for cultural values being fought by right-wing conservatives and gay activists is chillingly depicted: after activists convince authorities to acknowledge the 1990 murder of Julio Rivera in Queens as a hate crime, the murderers are convicted;Jesse Helms uses the public television broadcast of Marlon Rigg’s Tongues Untied to attack the National Endowment for the Arts; and local activists successfully campaign against Oregon’s Religious-Right-sponsored Ballot Measure 9, the first of many initiatives nationwide seeking to curtail civil rights.

On August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles, a peaceful march of over 20,000 Chicanas/os, united in protest against the Vietnam War as part of the National Chicano Moratorium movement, was violently interrupted by an extreme, unjustifiable response by law enforcement. The tragic events of that day left four dead. Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom is a harrowing, eyewitness documentary of the events of August 29, 1970 and their immediate aftermath, including the murder of Chicano journalist, Ruben Salazar. In contrast to biased TV news reports of the period, this student-made short offers an impassioned, unvarnished community account of the unrest and violence unleashed by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in response to the otherwise peaceful march in protest of disproportionate Chicano casualties in the Vietnam War.

David Dimbleby presents a documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary of Britain's premiere political discussion show.

In a story of interconnected lives, three families of different religious faiths navigate conflicting beliefs, hardships, and other struggles.

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.

Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of ​​the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more.

Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to “Hamlet”, we will observe the birth of compassion in people. Compassion is something that has to be dealt with in very rigorous terms, something that needs to be stripped of the layers of clichés that this word has amassed over the years. Is it always a true feeling or just an imitation? How does a deep compassion spring forth? Who are the true “masters of compassion” and what are they like?

The heroine of the film Karagoz Alimbayeva comes from the village, where she worked as a zoo technician for five years, to the city to enter the veterinary institute. Having brilliantly passed the profile subjects, Karagoz gets a three on the last physics exam and, having failed to get one point, must return to the village.

A documentary exploring the theory that alien contact has been made.

Troubled young Priest Father Farrell returns to deserted house that cost his friends their lives nearly 20 years ago. Plagued by guilt, flashbacks and curiosity, Father Farrell attempts to confront the ghosts within himself as well as the house. But with the re-appearance of the Lament Configuration Puzzle, something much worse than dead friends is coming for Father Farrell.

Demonstrates how police behavior can increase or diminish the hostility potential in everyday occurrences in law enforcement. Sequences illustrate such typical problems as a street corner gang, a speeding car, a barroom brawl, and a campus demonstration.

Protogonist struggles with the question of reality.

All over the world, people are asking the same questions: Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? What does it mean to be happy? Is there such a thing as evil? Does God really exist? This September, through the brilliant minds and personal struggles of two of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, PBS presents an emotional and intellectual journey into the meaning of life.

Leo is a lonely old man. His wife and only son died long ago. He lives a recluse in a quiet, decaying house on a plot of tall grass. But once the peace in the house of Leva is disturbed by the arrival of his old friend ...

This film almost literally visualize three short stories on which it is based. The difficulty was to assign real spaces in the film for the world of short stories that does not require material reality. The question of ”What is love?” is stretched into three periods: the 70s, the 80s and the 90s. The story which is divided into three periods is trying to reveal the story of the main characters through three different periods of their lives.

Mamdouh carries on with his womanizing ways after his marriage. His brother Fathy suffers from the constant preoccupation of his wife Nawal with her work. Mamdouh takes Fathy to a brothel, to take his mind off his problems, but Nawal discovers her husband's infidelity.

Two perfect strangers. A blind date. An urban legend.

The violent mother left a long-term psychological shadow on the girl, and even after her mother passed away, she couldn't let go for a long time. One day, she finally unexpectedly found a way out for reconciliation. This film is Wen Qi's directorial debut, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Female supporting role for "Blood Avalokitesvara". She, together with post-90s director Zheng Ziyi, borrows Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" to raise girls' painful questions about their original family and growth experience. In the film, the repeated appearance of mirrors and water extends the camera space, and scenes from different time and space interweave with the imagery of water, revealing a mother daughter relationship of love and hate.