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Provocator, amuzant, destept si cuprinzator, filmul de succes The Corporation castigator a peste 26 de premii internationale, exploreaza modul in care s-au nascut si s-au dezvoltat marile corporatii dominante ale timpurilor noastre. Pelicula cuprinde peste 40 de interviuri cu angajati ai corporatiilor si critici renumiti ai acestora, printre care Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva si Michael Moore.

"Acest film despre consumism ne-a consumat de tot... Foloseste limbajul video-clipului, al propagandei si publicitatii comerciale ca raspuns la fortele globalizarii. Raspunde cu foc la foc. Intrebarile pe care le ridica sunt mai importante decat orice raspunsuri pe care le sugereaza. Si credem ca audienta nu are decat de castigat din dezbaterile ulterioare."
Juriul Festivalului International de Film Documentar de la Amsterdam, 2003

Ce-i face pe oameni sa se arunce in aer pentru o cauza? In acest film facem cunostinta cu doua femei, soldati de elita, antrenate pentru misiunea finala. Impartasim experienta lor traumatizanta din copilarie, visele si durerea pierderii familiilor. Dharsika si Puhalchudar fac parte din ultimul grup de luptatori Black Tigers din Sri Lanka. Sunt echipate pentru ultima misiune: au atasata strans de trup o mina care poate sa le arunce in aer si tot ce se gaseste in jur pe o raza de 30 de metri.

St. Petersburg FF 2007 - Best Documentary; Message to Man IFF 2007 - Best Documentary

"De mai bine de 20 de ani James Nachtwey calatoreste in lume in locuri devastate de razboaie, foamete si saracie documentand cu o claritate elocventa si devastatoare suferinta si cruzimea. Filmul tacut si relfexiv al lui Frei este o marturie trista si emotionanta a acestei lumi si a eroismului modest cu care James Nachtwey o evoca." — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

Nominated for OSCAR 2002 - Best Documentary Award; Georg Foster Peabody Award 2003; Emmy Award Nomination 2004; Winner of 16 International Awards 2002-2004

Regizorul Cornel Mihalache cauta un raspuns la intrebarea "Cine-a tras in noi, 21-22?", obsedanta intrebare de dupa decembrie 1989. O parte dintre personajele documentarului sunt revolutionari, dar in film apar si 350 de copii de clasa a VI-a, a VII-a si a VIII-a de la scoli din toata tara, care au raspuns la intrebarile "Ce s-a intamplat in 1989?" si "Cine a fost Ceausescu?".

PROIECTIE IN PREZENTA REGIZORULUI CORNEL MIHALACHE (discutii cu publicul)

This is a film about Canada.

"If we just let markets decide, we wouldn't have a country today." David Orchard

Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade is a deeply researched, informative and thought-provoking documentary about the effects of free trade on Canada.

For 10 months, Andrée Cazabon tracked four young people as they prepared to leave the child welfare system. The result is Wards of the Crown, a stirring documentary about a little-known reality.

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life.

Water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. The Water Front is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization.

„Acest film despre consumism ne-a consumat de tot… Foloseste limbajul video-clipului, al propagandei şi publicităţii comerciale ca răspuns la forţele globalizării. Răspunde cu foc la foc. Întrebările pe care le ridică sînt mai importante decît orice răspunsuri pe care le sugerează. Şi credem că audienţa nu are decît de cîştigat din dezbaterile ulterioare.” – Juriul Festivalului Internaţional de Film Documentar de la Amsterdam, 2003

In Collaboration with London Indymedia.

It may be the greatest media technology paradigm shift since TV's advent. From Rodney King to Osama Bin Laden, handicams aren't just for weddings and family vacations anymore. Over the past decade, amateur camcorders have become the eyes of the world when no one else is watching.

OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.

Regizorul cauta un răspuns la obsedanta întrebare „Cine-a tras in noi, 21-22?”. O parte dintre personajele documentarului sînt revoluţionari, dar în film apar şi copii de clasa a VI-a, a VII-a si a VIII-a de la şcoli din toată ţara, care au răspuns la întrebările „Ce s-a întîmplat în 1989?” şi „Cine a fost Ceauşescu?”. Interesante, aiuritoare, pline de haz, uneori şi de miez, răspunsurile ilustrează ecourile contradictorii ale unui eveniment asemenea.

Water is the liquid gold of the 21st century. While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal water, communities around the world are organizing to ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. THE WATER FRONT is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization.

The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End In Sight is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality.

Guvernul canadian, după ani de scandaluri şi corupţie, a căzut. Elita politică a Canadei se luptă pentru putere în alegerile federale din ianuarie 2006. Este timpul să intre în scenă candidaţii independenţi.

Documentarul prezintă „povestea unuia dintre cele mai semnificative experimente sociale din istoria omenirii”, după cum spune cineastul american John Alpert, cea a Decretului nr. 770 pentru reglementarea întreruperii cursului sarcinii, din anul 1966, transformat în lege. Decretul, semnat de Nicolae Ceauşescu, prevedea că o femeie are dreptul de a face avort doar dacă are peste 40 de ani şi patru copii în întreţinere şi interzicea orice formă de contracepţie.

Everyone has heard both the positives and negatives of genetically modified crops, from biotech companies like Monsanto and from environmental and consumer groups like Greenpeace, yet no one has actually heard from those who actually grow the food we eat - the farmers.

"Around the world, Canada or Ethiopia, it's the same: farmers have been kept out of the loop in terms of the development of new technologies."

-Author and researcher Pat Roy Mooney, quoted in the film

Why is the lifestyle of consumerism a source of such rage today? How come the privilege of buying goods does not automatically lead to happiness? Why all this emptiness despite our wealth?

Erik Gandini's approach through Surplus is to portray this issue from an emotional rather than a factual perspective.
Shot in the US, India, China, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Canada and Cuba during three years. Surplus is the result of a complicated editing process by talented music composer/editor/percussionist Johan Söderberg.

Gimme Green is a humorous look at the American obsession with the residential lawn and the effects it has on our environment, our wallets and our outlook on life. From the limitless subdivisions of Florida to sod farms in the arid southwest, Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop—the lawn.