Zaza, un Israélien d'origine géorgienne, a 32 ans et sa famille souhaite enfin le voir s'installer et se marier. Comme le veut la tradition, il est de son devoir de choisir une jeune femme vierge, belle, bien élevée et, de préférence, riche. Yasha et Lily, ses parents, lui organisent des rendez-vous avec des épouses potentielles et leurs familles. Zaza n'a pas le choix. Alors il embobine sa famille et se débrouille toujours pour échapper à des fiançailles en bonne et due forme. Ce que les parents de Zaza ignorent, c'est qu'il est déjà amoureux. Et l'heureuse élue n'est autre que Judith, une marocaine sensuelle, forte et mystérieuse. Elle est aussi divorcée et mère d'une petite fille de six ans. C'est la raison pour laquelle Zaza n'a jamais parlé d'elle à sa famille.
Dr. Sadik Ahmet fights for the democratic rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority living in Greece. After graduating from Athens University Faculty of Medicine, Ahmet started working as a doctor in Komotini. Ahmet entered the political struggle to defend the rights of the Western Thrace Turkish minority. He became the founding chairman of the Western Thrace Turkish Minority Advisory Board (BTTDK), which was established in 1989. Ahmet was also known internationally for his work on minority rights in Greece. Ahmet, who died in 1995, became a symbol for the Turkish minority in Western Thrace.
À la fin du XIXe siècle, un jeune Cheyenne perd l'usage de ses jambes après une attaque de la cavalerie américaine. Son amitié avec Cheval Soleil, un magnifique étalon sauvage, lui permet de reprendre confiance en lui et de trouver le chemin de la rébellion.
A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community.
Two parallel stories about unhappy marriages that take place during inter-war period in the Banat village within Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia.
In southern Carinthia, about ninety percent of all inhabitants spoke Slovenian before 1910. Today it is on average a single digit percentage. In this very personal essay documentary, Andrina Mračnikar formulates a political urgency: What happens when one's mother tongue is taken away in everyday life. What must politicians do to counteract the disappearance of a language whose protection is enshrined in the Austrian constitution.
Sept amies passent une soirée ensemble. Ça aurait pu être une soirée normale pour Léa, si elle n’avait pas été perturbée par une nouvelle des plus mystérieuses...
Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and become a refugee in India.
Footage from the first ever São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, which took place on the 28th of June 1997 on Avenida Paulista. The annual event would go on to become the largest pride parade in the world.
In the late 1960s, with the triumph of bilingualism and biculturalism, New Brunswick's Université de Moncton became the setting for the awakening of Acadian nationalism after centuries of defeatism and resignation. Although 40% of the province's population spoke French, they had been unable to make their voices heard. The movement started with students-sit-ins, demonstrations against Parliament, run-ins with the police - and soon spread to a majority of Acadians. The film captures the behind-the-scenes action and the students' determination to bring about change. An invaluable document of the rebirth of a people.
Diversity trainer Lee Mun Wah assembles a diverse group of eight American men to talk about their experience of race relations in the United States. The exchange is sometimes dramatic as they lay bare the pain that racism in the US has caused them.
People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an identity that challenges others to simply just say their name. A short social docu-film by Mariam Meliksetyan, “Say My Name” is a meditation on identity, otherness, assimilation, community, and ancestral roots.
In a valley in the Ukrainian Carpathian forest lies the small and forgotten town of Königsfeld. In 1775, the Habsburg Queen, Maria Theresa, sent a hundred foresters and their families here from the Austrian west of the kingdom. All that remains today of the now over two century-old timber industry are factory ruins, potholes in the valley road and an increasingly seldom heard German dialect. Only a few factories survived a flood that cut the village off from the rest of the world, and left it economically isolated. An atmosphere of farewell hangs heavy in the air.
Alex, un jeune graphiste rêveur et un peu paumé, tombe sous le charme de Lili, sa nouvelle voisine, une belle asiatique. Trop timide pour l’aborder, Alex l’observe en cachette et découvre bientôt son secret : Lili ne vient pas de Chine mais de plus loin, de beaucoup plus loin
Argentina, July 15, 2010. A law is approved declaring that marriage is independent of the sex of the contracting parties, thus building a more democratic and egalitarian society.
A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as their daily lives unfold in a graveyard.
A young woman from Barcelona's La Mina neighborhood inquires into the past of the Roma people in this documentary about the persecution of the Roma people.
Mr. Baek, a job seeker, is vulnerable to sunlight. Despite his unusual illness, he is eager to get a job. Finally, today is Mr. Baek's last interview.