Black Box Diaries

Dominguinhos

Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, among many others, "Dominguinhos" reveals this genius of Brazilian music, creator of a deeply authentic, universal and contemporary work. The film values the sensory cinematic experience, a journey driven by Dominguinhos his own.
TV Show Star Rating : 7.2  Read More

New Wave

An endearingly nostalgic exploration of the defiant Vietnamese new wave music scene, as well as a vulnerable and personal look at the filmmaker and her community’s revisiting of their unexamined past.
TV Show Star Rating : 0  Read More

The Murmuring

Every Wednesday at noon, women who were kidnapped for sexual purpose by the Japanese army during its imperialism and their supporters demonstrate against Japanese government to request official apology and indemnity for their crimes. This documentary portrays sexually abused old women's suppressed story of overcoming of their shame and forced silence.
TV Show Star Rating : 5.5  Read More

Women with Eyes Open

Portraits of contemporary African women from four West African nations: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin.
TV Show Star Rating : 5.9  Read More

Whose Is This Song?

Adela Peeva explores the national origin of a song common amongst a set of countries, and finds that the answer is not as simple as one might think.
TV Show Star Rating : 6.1  Read More

The Colour of Olives

Like many Palestinian families, the Amers live surrounded by the infamous West Bank Wall where their daily lives are dominated by electrified fences, locks and a constant swarm of armed soldiers. Through director Carolina Rivas' sensitive lens, we discover the private world of all eight members of the family. As their dramas unfold, we catch a glimpse of their constant struggles and the small, endearing details that sustain them, including olive trees, two small donkeys and their many friendships. Constructed with a combination of verité scenes and re-enactments, this poignant and richly crafted film offers its audience a much needed opportunity to reflect on the effects of racial segregation, the meaning of borders and the absurdity of war
TV Show Star Rating : 8.8  Read More

Habibi

Filmed in New York in the summer of 2006: a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese populations. Habibi means "beloved" in Arabic.
TV Show Star Rating : 0  Read More

Horns and Halos

"What if someone wrote your biography? Would there be horns and halos involved?"
TV Show Star Rating : 6.2  Read More

100 Years

An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
TV Show Star Rating : 6  Read More

Mamachas of the Ring

Set in the heights of the Bolivian Andes, Mamachas del Ring is the story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, an indigenous woman who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling.
TV Show Star Rating : 9.3  Read More

The Gullspång Miracle

Two Norwegian sisters receive a premonition from God that makes them buy an apartment in a tiny Swedish town, Gullspång. Meeting the seller, she is a dead-ringer of their older sister, who committed suicide 30 years ago.
TV Show Star Rating : 7.2  Read More