Movies: Celebratory

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile ind...

This is the untold story of a remarkable American civil rights pioneer, Father Divine, who at one time had over a million followers worldwide in his Peace Mission Movement. However, things became complicated when he claimed that he was God incarnate....

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river....

The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by t...

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her hu...

Celebrities are showing it all online and raking in fortunes. Join TMZ in examining Hollywood’s fascination with getting naked on the internet....

A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him – while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land....

Accompanying his self-titled debut EP, Western Sydney auteur, rapper, producer, and filmmaker Zion Garcia offers a brief portrait into his suburban life, family relations, friendships, and mixed Polynesian and Spanish heritage. Shot entirely on 16mm,...

The illusion and joy of Christmas arrives from the four cardinal points of Latin America. The film recreates a typical Christmas party with Puerto Rican and Latin American artists, whom convey how Christmas is celebrated in their countries....

A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro....

Having left their home country for almost 20 years, a mother, her son and her daughter reminisce of their days in Armenia and reflect on how radically different their life is now. They also discuss the current political state of the country in the mi...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies....

Behind Audrey Hepburn's dazzling image, Darcey Bussell unravels an epic tale of betrayal, courage, heartache and broken dreams. For as long as she can remember Darcey has been fascinated by Audrey Hepburn: style icon, star of Breakfast at Tiffany's,...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution....

The film is described as a weird and wonderful merging of shades of folk horror, the supernatural with dadaist humour and a quaint British eccentricities that are long gone in the cinema of today....

How Cardi B became a household name and a legend in her own time....

Opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), with a libretto in French by Jules Barbier (1825-1901), based on a work that Barbier himself and Michel Carré (1821-1872) had written based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffma...

Told by a member's son, this is the story of five kids from L.A.'s Watts neighborhood who formed a little-known funk and soul outfit in the 1970s....

Atmospherically shot in black and white North Circular Road travels the length of the eponymous road exploring the history, music and streetscapes of this legendary artery that links some of Dublin's most beloved and infamous places. From the Phoenix...

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are launching so many multi-million dollar projects that people describe this period as a "Black Renaissance."...