Voirfilm Black

Derwin and Sierra are expecting their first child. It’s wonderful news, but comes at a time of uncertainty for Derwin as Baltimore begins to enforce bans on his main source of income: squeegeeing. Now, this young couple has to figure out how to make ends meet and provide a stable future for their growing family.

Visionary filmmaker Abassi Okoro (Uncloaked) returns with a mind-blowing look into ancient African and Orisha origins of many of the Marvel and DC comic book superheroes and exposes how European culture and religion for over a 12,000 year span has historically appropriated the black Gods of old.

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their contributions to Hollywood filmmaking. Spectacular film clips, rare behind-the-scenes footage, archival photographs and fascinating interviews chronicle nearly a century of tribulation and triumph. Gazing at the outstanding range of African-American stars on today's movie screens, it is hard to imagine a time when there were no black leading men or women, a time when all of the roles available for people of color were considerably less heroic than they are now. Social progress came in small steps on the silver screen, film by film, for equal visibility and dignity on the silver screen; now it is possible to honor their struggles, their talent and their sacrifices.

This documentary follows a group of African-American high school students from Brooklyn who go with their teacher to work on a kibbutz in Israel for a few months. The students also visit Jerusalem for a day. —Philip Apps

Composition in Black and White is an attempt to isolate the different elements of the film: rhythm, melody, colors, composition, invoice, to restructure them and thus create a new form of cinema, at the same time as a new way of looking. The result is that each shot becomes a complete cinematic event. I ask each viewer to watch, quite simply to step out of their usual film viewing conditioning.

"In Black Forest Trading Post, the postcard landmark itself travels the world, a winking subversion of the whole idea of ‘being-there’ and of the pilgrimages that postcards, or for that matter, other souvenirs, are meant to indicate."- Stephen Broomer

Vipal Monga's first feature-length documentary chronicles an unprecedented series of concerts performed in February 2005 by the legendary jazz composer Lawrence D. Butch Morris. The concerts were in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Conduction, Butch's revolutionary technique for live music-making. Butch put on 44 performances in 28 days with 85 musicians pulled from all across New York's musical community. Along with footage from these remarkable concerts that span a full range of musical styles from big band jazz to funk to electronic and symphonic works. The documentary features some of the leading lights of the New York creative-music community, including Henry Threadgill, JD Allen, Brandon Ross, Graham Haynes, Howard Mandel, and Greg Tate. Although the film provides unique insight into New York's vibrant avant-garde music scene,

In a country where money and corruption rules, a prime minister of defense couldn't be part of it. But his love to women and some wrong choices made him have some troubles. Will he find the courage to avoid the net of the Black Widow?

Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guard post near Kandahar. Then the film moves to the monument to the dead of WWII beside the Kremlin wall, to a Moscow cemetery filled with dead from the Afghan war, and to the heartbreak of a mother of one of the dead soldiers

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

The adventures of the Black Cat and the Maple Skateboard team.

An imaginative girl, and a Chinese cocaine dealer cursed with an evil spirit by a rival drug dealer.

It explores the tension between age-old China and energy of the student demonstration in the spring of 1989.

A riveting docu-thriller exposing the illegal trade in endangered wild orcas fueled by American business practices. Unprecedented access to activists, trainers, and journalists reveals the shocking truth behind the global orca trade.

A young woman takes a job at an autumn camp in the woods, only to arrive to find that all the children have mysteriously disappeared. But as night falls, much to her dismay, some of them return.

Somehow the pirate Blackbeard exists in the modern world and has a twenty-something-year-old son who parties through life coasting on his father's accomplishments and failing to live up to ...

Away back in the Highlands far removed from the path of everyday life, Donald, the head keeper of Lord Cameron's estate, lives with his daughter, Jessie, a beautiful young girl entirely unacquainted with men of the world.

Filmed before a live audience at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall, this first video from Ladysmith Black Mambazo delivers groups in-person magic with state of the art sound.

Film director Tara discovers her sister Vanya's betrayal in a relationship Affair with Her Tara Husband. In a shocking twist, Tara stages their deaths in a short film. The reality unfolds as Tara invites her real sister for coffee after the shoot.

Spanning four centuries on a joyful voyage of music and heritage, Seeking Salvation traces the history of the Black Church and considers its future in a changing society.