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The Scar Of Shame (1927)
Directed by Frank Perugini • 1929 • United States
Starring Harry Henderson, Lucia Lynn Moses, Lawrence Chenault
When a young woman (Lucia Moses) escapes from her abusive father (William E. Pettus), she is rescued by an aspiring composer (Harry Henderson), but encounters opposition from his class-conscious mother.
Something of Value (1957)
In Kenya, Peter (Rock Hudson), the son of a white settler, forms a tight friendship with Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a Kenyan worker. After Kimani’s father is imprisoned for enforcing a controversial tribal tradition, Kimani realizes his place is among the Mau Mau, a group that is organizing a revolt. The Mau Mau attacks Peter’s brother-in-law Jeff (Robert Beatty) with tragic results, inspiring Peter to take action. When the two finally come face to face again, peace is hard to establish.https://youtu.be/lKf6QosIU10
Right on! (1970)
Produced by Woodie King, Jr. With Gylan Kain, David Nelson, Felipe Luciano. Described as “a conspiracy of ritual, street theater, soul music and cinema,” Right On! is a pioneering concert film, a compelling record of radical Black sentiment in 1960s America, and a precursor of the Hip Hop revolution in musical culture. Shot guerilla-style on the streets and rooftops of lower Manhattan, it features the original Last Poets performing twenty-eight numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York’s Paperback Theater in 1969. Opening almost simultaneously with Melvin Pebbles’ Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Right On! was described by its producer as “the first ‘totally black film’” making “no concession in language and symbolism to white audiences.” Rarely screened for over thirty years, To Save and Project presents the world premiere of the Museum’s new restoration, made from the recently recovered 35mm negative. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation and Paul Newman (San Francisco).
Memories of the Eichmann Trial (1979)
Memories of the Eichmann Trial includes reminiscences by trial witnesses, Holocaust survivors, Israelis of the second generation, and others who were directly involved in the Eichmann case. Prominent among them are Henryk Ross, a Polish Jew who, with the help of his wife Stefania, took clandestine photographs of life in the Lodz Ghetto while carrying out Nazi orders to record information about Jews on their way to the death camps; and Rafi Eitan, who led the operation to capture Eichmann in Argentina, in 1961. Broadcast only once on Israeli television in 1979, Memories of the Eichmann Trial was rediscovered and restored in 2011.
Suzanne, Suzann (1982)
One of the many films that Camille Billops and James Hatch made centering on Billops’s family, SUZANNE, SUZANNE presents a devastating portrait of the artist’s niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of the family members who allowed it to continue.
Cane River (1982)
Directed by Horace Jenkins • 1982 • United States
Starring Richard Romain, Tommye Myrick, Carol Sutton
Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this luminous, recently rediscovered landmark of American independent cinema is a charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana. It’s there that a forbidden romance between an aspiring writer (Richard Romain) and an ambitious, college-bound woman (Tommye Myrick) lays bare the tensions between two black communities: the wealthy Creoles and the working-class descendants of slaves. Featuring lyrical cinematography and strikingly naturalistic performances from its captivating leads, the long-lost CANE RIVER reemerges thanks to a brand new, state-of-the-art restoration by Indie Collect and Oscilloscope Laboratories.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/cane-river/videos/cane-river
Losing Ground (1982)
Directed by Kathleen Collins • 1982 • United States
Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones
One of the first feature films directed by an African American woman, Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND tells the story of a marriage between two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers (Seret Scott), a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband, Victor (Bill Gunn), sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. Over the course of a summer idyll in upstate New York, the two each experience profound emotional and romantic awakenings. Applying a deft comic touch to a deeply personal exploration of love, race, and gender, Collins crafts a charming, complex tale of personal discovery that, after decades of neglect, has reemerged as a still-fresh landmark of independent cinema.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/a-legacy-and-a-landmark/season:1/videos/losing-ground
Kaddish (1984)
Directed by Steve Brand
“From an early age Yossi Klein received a special education. He was prepared for another Holocaust. So were other children in Boro Park, the largest Orthodox survivor community in America, and this candid portrait of a young Jewish activist coming to terms with his father’s traumatic history is as bracing as any fiction. Through his writing and activism, Yossi attempts to carry on the legacy of struggle passed on to him. A portrait emerges of a young man whose world view and personal outlook have been principally shaped by an event that took place before he was born.” — Sundance Institute
The Last Album (1986)
In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. The photos, both candid snapshots and studied portraits, had been confiscated, but instead of being destroyed they were hidden at great risk and saved. In many cases these pictures are the only remnants left of entire families.
No Way Out (1987)
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) meets a young woman, Susan Atwell (Sean Young), and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice (Gene Hackman), is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Release date: August 14, 1987 (USA)
Director: Roger Donaldson
Screenplay: Robert Garland
Story by: Kenneth Fearing
Producers: Robert Garland, Laura Ziskin
Because of That War (1988)
Documentary about the life experience of the Holocaust generation and its own second generation – children born in Israel, who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ memories of the Holocaust.
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Directed by Julie Dash • 1991 • United States
Starring Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones
Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1902, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina—former West African slaves who carried on many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions—struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. Awash in gorgeously poetic, sun-dappled images at once dreamlike and precise, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST forges a radical new visual language rooted in black femininity and the rituals of Gullah culture.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/daughters-of-the-dust/videos/daughters-of-the-dust
Bébé’s Kids (1992)
In this animated depiction of a calamitous first date, Robin Harris (Faizon Love) hits it off with the gorgeous Jamika (Vanessa Bell Calloway), whom he meets at her boss’ funeral. On the ride back, Harris is introduced to her well-behaved son (Wayne Collins), and asked if he wants to go with them to the amusement park the next day. Harris accepts, and arrives to find three more children joining them. Jamika is watching her friend Bebe’s kids — which is the beginning of Harris’ problems.
Schindler’s List (1993)
Schindler’s List is a 1993 American historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Children of the Third Reich (1993)
Eighteen children of Holocaust survivors meet children of German Nazis. Previously broadcast by B.B.C., A&E, The History Channel, in Australia, Candada, England, France, Holland, Israel, Turkey, the US. Timewatch, B.B.C. (London), produced by Catrine Clay (1993)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/753oz3/bbc_timewatch_children_of_the_third_reich_1993/
Daddy Come to the Fair (1995)
A documentary that follows Mordechai Vilozny, who travels back to Auschwitz from which he was liberated nearly 50 years ago. He travels back to Poland with his Israeli-born son, who is a stand-up comedian. Father and son have an alienated relationship. Will the trip help to repair this relationship?
On My Way to Father’s Land (1995)
A moving documentary account of a son’s struggle to understand his father’s past. The film takes us on two journeys: the first is to Vienna, where director Preminger’s father returns to his childhood home to share stories of his youth during the Nazi occupation. On the second journey, we follow Preminger’s father as a young immigrant in Palestine where he became a member of the first Knesset, joined the Palestine Communist Party, and later resigned to establish the Hebrew Communist Party. Through interviews and archival material, the younger Preminger discovers his father’s role in the politics and ideology debated in those days. The film ends as the father reviews his life but still “continues to build, to dream and plan growth and renewal.”
The Srebrenica massacre: A survivor’s family story (1995)
A moving documentary account of a son’s struggle to understand his father’s past. The film takes us on two journeys: the first is to Vienna, where director Preminger’s father returns to his childhood home to share stories of his youth during the Nazi occupation. On the second journey, we follow Preminger’s father as a young immigrant in Palestine where he became a member of the first Knesset, joined the Palestine Communist Party, and later resigned to establish the Hebrew Communist Party. Through interviews and archival material, the younger Preminger discovers his father’s role in the politics and ideology debated in those days. The film ends as the father reviews his life but still “continues to build, to dream and plan growth and renewal.”
The Long Way Home (1997)
The Long Way Home is a 1997 American documentary film directed by Mark Jonathan Harris. It depicts the plight of Jewish refugees after World War II that contributed to the creation of the State of Israel.
The film’s emphasis is on the pitiful conditions for Jewish refugees in Europe after the war, as antisemitism was still rife and poverty was common. It also shows how emigration to the British Mandate of Palestine became a goal for many, but that British immigration rules often resulted in them being detained in camps in Cyprus. The eventual formation of the State of Israel is then shown, with emphasis on the debates in the White House between Palestinian Jews, President Harry S. Truman, and the United Nations. The Long Way Home is narrated by Morgan Freemanand features the voices of Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko, Helen Slater, and Michael York. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1998.
Train of Life (1998)
n 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Down in the Delta (1998)
Directed by Maya Angelou • 1998 • United States
Starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr., Esther Rolle
The only film directed by the iconic writer, poet, and activist Maya Angelou is a warm, richly evocative celebration of black southern family and resilience. Alfre Woodard delivers a brilliant performance as a floundering, drug-addicted mother living in Chicago whose own mother sends her to stay with an uncle (Al Freeman Jr.) in the Mississippi Delta, where she gradually reconnects with her heritage and discovers strength in her roots. With her writer’s eye for detail and keen sense of character and place, Angelou crafts a bittersweet, deeply moving family portrait that ranks as one of the unsung gems of 1990s independent filmmaking. The marvelous supporting cast includes Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes, who also produced.
Jenin Jenin, documentary (2002)
Jenin, Jenin is a film directed by Mohammed Bakri, a prominent Arab actor and Israeli citizen, in order to portray what Bakri calls “the Palestinian truth” about the “Battle of Jenin”, a clash between the Israeli army and Palestinians in April 2002 which drew Palestinian accounts of the “Battle of Jenin”
Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII. Documentary/History (2002)
Through harrowing archival footage and touching interviews with Holocaust survivors, documentarian Aviva Slesin tells the story of the brave individuals who, during World War II, risked their own lives in order to harbor Jewish children from invading Nazis and almost certain death. Slesin reveals her own story about finding safety in a foster home during the Holocaust and explores bonds that formed between other children of the tragedy and their surrogate families.
Centerpiece (2003)
The Birch Tree Meadow Marceline Loridan-Ivens, France/Germany/Poland, 2003, 91m English, French, and Polish with English subtitlesAnouk Aimée and August Diehl star in this astounding autobiographical drama by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a French filmmaker and memoirist who passed away in 2018. Aimée plays Myriam, a filmmaker and Holocaust survivor who has lived in New York for years. When she returns to Europe for a reunion of fellow survivors, she confronts her past and visits Auschwitz, the scene of her “murdered adolescence.” There, she meets Diehl’s Oskar, a young photographer coming to grips with his grandfather’s role in the SS. This extraordinary film, which screened in the 2004 NYJFF, is a profoundly moving reflection on memory from a true iconoclast of French cinema.
Rua Alguem 5555: My Father (2003)
Rua Alguem 5555: My Father
2003 ‧ Drama/War ‧ 1h 55m
A man who grew up as an orphan meets his father, Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who performed heinous medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. Director: Egidio Eronico
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 biographical comedy-drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, and was the debut film of Liev Schreiber both as a director and as a screenwriter.
Music by: Paul Cantelon; Sergei Shnurov
Based on: Everything Is Illuminated; by Jonathan Safran Foer
Language: English; Russian; Ukrainian
Production company: Big Beach
Grbavica (2006)
A full decade after the ethnic conflict that left the city of Sarajevo in ruins, the widowed Esma (Mirjana Karanovic) and her adolescent daughter, Sara (Luna Mijovic), struggle to survive in a country still raw from the violence. Esma attempts to scrape together the money for an expensive school trip by taking a job in a sleazy, mob-connected disco. While Esma gingerly enters a relationship with bouncer Pelda (Leon Lucev), Sara meets her first love, fellow outcast Samir (Kenan Catic).
Freedom Writers (2007)
A dedicated teacher (Hilary Swank) in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals.
Open Eye – Open I (2007)
Shirley, a Dutch-Israeli photojournalist, was always protected behind her camera while exploring other people’s emotions. Yet her own father, a Holocaust survivor, never shared his own story with her.
https://movie-discovery.com/movie/open-eye-open-i/63
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Pizza in Auschwitz (2008)
Danny Chanoch (74), survivor of several concentration camps, convinces his reluctant children to retrace his steps through the holocaust, eventually spending a night in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Hugo 2 (2008)
Two decades ago, filmmaker Yair Lev made “Hugo,” a film about his father, a survivor of Auschwitz, in which the older man revealed his most passionate belief: “It is most important for a man to be strong.” Now, Lev returns with “Hugo 2,” the result of his ruminations about his thin and frail son: Would he have survived his grandfather’s experience? A moving film that captures the inherited past and its implications, from survivor to child to grandchild.
The Abandoned (2010)
The Abandoned is a 2010 Bosnian drama film directed by Adis Bakrač, produced by Almir Šahinović and Marie-Anne Coste. The film is a Croatian-French co-production. It stars Mira Furlan, Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mirela Lambić, Dragan Marinković, Meto Jovanovski, Zijah Sokolović, and was written by Zlatko Topčić.
Prisoner of Her Past (2010)
Prisoner of Her Past tells the haunting story of a secret childhood trauma resurfacing, sixty years later, to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. The film follows her son, Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich, as he journeys across the United States and Eastern Europe to uncover why his mother believes the world is conspiring to kill her. Along the way, he finds a family he never knew he had. Howard also finds psychiatrists in New Orleans helping traumatized children who survived Hurricane Katrina, so they will not re-experience their childhood terrors as his mother now does. https://kartemquin.com/films/prisoner…
Watermarks (2011)
“Yaron Zilberman’s wonderful, heartwarming Watermarks” (Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times) narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes, Hakoah rapidly grew into one of Europe’s biggest athletic organizations — and its women’s swim team virtually dominated national competitions in the 1930s. An uplifting tale of survival and friendship, Watermarks focuses on the stories of the club’s surviving members, while also faithfully recounting a historical period where prejudice and violence forced these brave women into exile. Length: 1:17 Rating: NR
Angel of Budapest (2011)
The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II who helped to save the lives of thousands of jews from the Holocaust by lodging them in Spanisn safe houses in Budapest. There’s also a romantic storyline following the lovelife of Antal a Jew who falls in love with the daughter of an Arrow Cross official. He slowly turns to the resistance movement to save themselves
BABA BRINKMAN – THE RAP GUIDE TO EVOLUTION (2011)
Dirk Murray “Baba” Brinkman (born October 22, 1978) is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature, theatre, and science. A novel species of theatre combining the wit, poetry, and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientific expert, Baba Brinkman’s The Rap Guide to Evolution uses hip-hop as a vehicle to communicate the facts of evolution while illuminating the origins and complexities of hip-hop culture with Darwin as the inspiration.
A smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the world, The Rap Guide is at once provocative, hilarious, intelligent, and scientifically accurate. Brinkman performs his clever reworkings of popular rap singles as well as his own originals to illustrate Natural Selection, Sexual Selection, Evolutionary Psychology, and much more. Brinkman undertook the project at the suggestion of Dr. Mark Pallen, author of The Rough Guide to Evolution. After seeing Brinkman’s internationally acclaimedRap Canterbury Tales, Dr. Pallen challenged the polymath rapper to “do for Darwin what he had done for Chaucer.” In order to ensure scientific and historical accuracy, Brinkman consulted Pallen throughout the creative process, making The Rap Guide to Evolution the first peer-reviewed hip-hop show.
The Flat (2011)
The Flat (Hebrew: הדירה) is a 2011 feature documentary film, an Israeli–German co-production written and directed by Arnon Goldfinger. It was theatrically released in Israel in September 2011. It played continuously for thirteen months and has received rave reviews.
Language: Hebrew; English; German
Directed by: Arnon Goldfinger
A Wonderful Day (2011)
Before moving to Germany, Shachar plans to propose marriage to his girlfriend, hoping that she will accompany him. His grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, will stop at nothing to prevent him from going to Germany. The conflict becomes inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMJ2x-olIA
This Must Be The Place (2011)
At 50 years of age, former rock star Cheyenne (Sean Penn) still dresses the part and lives in Ireland off the royalties and dividends from smart investments. The death of his estranged father brings Cheyenne back to New York, where he discovers the old man had one obsession: to hunt down a Nazi war criminal (Heinz Lieven). Cheyenne decides to pick up the quest where his late father left off, and sets out at his own pace on a journey across America.
The Rock and the Star, Documentary (2011)
In Portuguese with English subtitles. The result of the decades of research, this documentary tells the story of the first Jewish colony in the Americas, in Recife, Brazil, at the time of and after the Inquisition.
Throughout the 16th century and especially during the Dutch colonial presence in Brazil, Recife was the most important city of the New World, due to its safe and welcoming harbor, and its proximity to Europe. For a long time it was the only place that offered religious freedom for Jews fleeing the Inquisition. There, in Recife, they founded the first synagogue in the Americas.
Part of this film traces the history of the Jews from Recife to the Port of New Amsterdam, where 23 of them arrived in 1654 to establish the first Jewish community in North America
Screening of The Rock and the Star marks Kátia Mesel’s 50-year film career. A pioneer of the cinema in the state of Pernambuco, Katia Mesel has created more than 300 audiovisual works.
People of African Descent in Bolivia (2011)
UN Human Rights: Bolivians of African descent still find themselves living on the sidelines of society. The United Nations has designated 2011 as the International Year of People of African Descent. The year aims at strengthening the integration of people of African descent into all aspects of society.
Halima’s Path (2012)
Halima’s Path (Bosnian: Halimin put) is 2012 Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian drama film about a grieving, but strong-willed Bosniak woman, Halima, who must track down her estranged niece in order to recover the bones of her son lost during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.
Language: Bosnian
Music by: Mate Matišić
Halima’s Path (2012)
Halima’s Path (Bosnian: Halimin put) is 2012 Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian drama film about a grieving, but strong-willed Bosniak woman, Halima, who must track down her estranged niece in order to recover the bones of her son lost during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.
Language: Bosnian
Music by: Mate Matišić
An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines (2012)
An Open Door is a feature-length documentary on the uplifting story of how a small Asian nation was able to save 1,200 Jews as they fled the pogroms of Nazi Germany. It is written, produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Noel M. Izon and co-produced by author Sharon Delmendo. It is the story of a deep and improbable, international friendship borne of common adversity and intense love for freedom. Together, Filipinos and Jews struggled, endured and ultimately prevailed against overwhelming odds.
Noel M. Izon is an independent filmmaker based in the Washington, DC area. He was born in Manila in the first year of the Philippine independence after World War II and is now an American citizen.
Six Million and One (2012)
Following the death of his father, Israeli documentary filmmaker David Fisher (Love Inventory, SFJFF 2001) discovered the diary that his father Joseph kept during the harrowing times he spent in a labor camp during World War II. Joseph’s words are a guide to David’s initial winter tour of Gusen, Austria where the camp was located. The diary reveals a story that David never knew. His father seemed determined to record the horror around him, but even though he survived, he was never able to reveal his experiences to his children. David’s siblings refused to read their father’s diary, so David initiates a road trip that becomes an extraordinary family psychodrama for them all at the very site of the concentration camp where their father was forced into slave labor as a young boy. Traveling in a van they laugh at themselves and question their own willingness to go deeper into their family legacy. Stunningly beautiful forests and meadows silently conceal the reality of their father’s experiences. As the Fisher family takes it all in, it becomes evident that the preservation of history and memory require active discussion among subsequent generations. And for the inheritors, victim and perpetrator, some are working hard to preserve memory while others choose to live only in the present.
Nicky’s Family (2013)
NICKY’S FAMILY is a gripping documentary that tells the mostly unknown story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a young Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. As a result of his heroic efforts, today there are over 6,000 descendants who live all over the World.
The Return of the Violin – a film by Haim Hecht that follows the Stradivarius of the IPO founder (2012)
Four Years of Night (2012)
A documentary film about the Photographer and second holocaust generation – Esaias Baitel and his journey to the darkness of the Neo-Nazis gang in Paris.
https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/project/profile/169169
Defiant Requiem (2012)
Defiant Requiem tells the little-known story of the Nazi concentration camp, Terezín. Led by imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter, the inmates of Terezín fought back with the only weapons available – art and music. Through hunger, disease and slave labor, the Jewish inmates of Terezín held onto their humanity by staging plays, composing opera and using paper and ink to record the horrors around them.
This creative rebellion reached its peak when Schächter challenged a choir of 150 inmates to learn one of the world’s most difficult and powerful choral works, Verdi’s Requiem, re-imagined as a condemnation of the Nazis.
The choir would ultimately confront the Nazis face to face…and sing to them what they dare not say.
For over ten years, conductor Murry Sidlin dreamed of bringing the Requiem back to Terezín. Now, through soaring concert footage, powerful survivor recollections, cinematic dramatizations and evocative animation, Defiant Requiem brings the incredible story of this artistic uprising to life.
Awards
Winner – Best Documentary, Big Apple Film Festival, New York, 2012
Runner-up – Audience Award, Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2013
What Makes A Hero (2013)
Are some people born heroic and others not? Can ordinary people become heroes, and if so, under what circumstances? Join us to explore this fascinating topic with Holocaust rescue experts Dr. Eva Fogelman and Dr. Mordecai Paldiel and award-winning Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir. Watch Shamir’s lighthearted yet earnest treatment of this important topic in his film, executive produced by Michael Moore, called 10% – What Makes a Hero?
12 Years A Slave (2013)
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Steve McQueen (Hunger) directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, based in part by Northup’s memoir. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, and Paul Giamatti co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA | Interview w/ Henry Louis, Gates, Jr. (2013)
In BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA, Professor Gates’ journey discovers, behind a shared legacy of colonialism and slavery, vivid stories and people marked by African roots. He introduces viewers to the faces and voices of the descendants of the Africans in six Latin-American countries, who created these worlds. He shows the similarities and distinctions between these cultures and how the New-World manifestations are rooted in, but distinct from, their African antecedents. A quest he began 12 years ago with WONDERS OF THE AFRICAN WORLD comes full circle in BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA, an effort to discover how Africa and Europe combined to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly moving and irresistibly compelling.
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | “Black is Beautiful” and Soul Train (2013)
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series premiering Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 8-9 p.m. ET on PBS and airing six consecutive Tuesdays through November 26, 2013 (check local listings). For more, visit: http://www.pbs.org/manyrivers
Two Barns (2014)
The Jedwabne Pogrom in which 1600 Jews were massacred by their Christian neighbors was only one of many in which tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by their Polish neighbors in villages across Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
Choose To Fight (2014)
Idan has no choice but to become a martial arts champion, trained by his father in a method developed by his holocaust surviving grandfather. The film follows his extraordinary childhood of rigorous training fraught by intricate family relationships in the arena that is shadowed by the past.
https://nfct.org.il/en/movies/choose-to-fight/
INSIGHT – ONE FLIGHT FOR US – 04/28/14
A report by Chaim Hecht. 3 F-15 fighter jets, bearing the Star of David, flew over Auschwitz, representing Jewish sovereignty and defense capability that become central to a people rising from the Holocaust. i24news is an international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel based in Jaffa Port. For more from our news teams http://www.i24news.tv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/i24newsEN Twitter: https://twitter.com/i24News_EN
My Father’s Holocaust Secret (2015)
When Holocaust survivor Aryeh Goldberg passed away, he left his son, Tzachi, his gold Patek Phillippe watch. On opening the box, Tzachi found an old black and white photo of two women hidden behind the watch. Searching the Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victim’s Names for information about the two unknown women in the picture, Tzachi was astonished to discover a Page of Testimony for a woman named Chaya Holzberg Goldberg and her two daughters, signed by Tzachi’s father. Further research uncovered his father’s Holocaust secret – before the War, Aryeh had been married to Chaya with whom he had two daughters, only for the girls and their mother to be cruelly murdered during the Holocaust. For more than 60 years, Yad Vashem has been working tirelessly to uncover the names of victims and their stories. Even today unknown details are coming to light, making this effort more relevant than ever.
Descendants of slaves: Ancestral land (2015)
United Nations – The United Nations has declared an International Decade for Persons of African Descent. Launched in January, the decade focuses on protecting the rights of people of African heritage, recognizing their contributions and preserving their rich cultural heritage. This also includes the descendants of slaves – the Gullah Geechee people – who live in South Carolina and Georgia in the United States.
Amy (2015)
Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS (2015)
Since premiering at Cannes earlier this year, we haven’t heard much in the way of Natalie Portman’s directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Despite the fact that there has yet to be a release date scheduled, we can now bring you the first look at the film in a new international trailer. Portman also adapted the screenplay from Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel which centers on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in the mid to late 1940s. Amir Tessler stars as a young Oz, whose parents Arieh (Gilad Kahana) and Fania (Portman) attempt to raise him in Jerusalem amidst rising tensions.
Berlin Calling (2015)
Documentary film starring Kastle Waserman and Benjamin Waserman. Written by Nigel Dick and Kastle Waserman, and directed by Nigel Dick.
As a child growing up in suburban Houston, Kastle always knew a big, dark cloud hung over her family. But her father, Ben, never talked about his past. He was busy building a business, raising his children and trying to be a like every other normal family. As Kastle went through a rebellious phase of punk rock, shaved her head into a Mohawk and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in journalism, she unknowingly touched a nerve of her father’s deepest fears of persecution and separation anxiety. It wasn’t until she reached her 30s that she began to turn her investigative skills on herself and her father to uncover what happened to him during his childhood in the dark days of Berlin and the Holocaust. BERLIN CALLING follows Kastle on a journey of discovery, through five cities Berlin, Prague, Paris, Los Angeles and Houston. We see Kastle open the paperwork the Nazis kept on her family and hear her father’s firsthand account of being a child under Hitler’s oppression of the Jews and his time in a concentration camp. In her research, Kastle also makes a surprising discovery - the fate of a family member who disappeared in the early days of persecution. Throughout the film, background lessons of the Holocaust are told through historical photos, film footage and narration to provide context of the family’s story. Told through the eyes of a second-generation Holocaust survivor, this amazing true account of one family in the shadow of one of history’s most harrowing times reveals how the emotional impact of the Holocaust is handed down through generations.
Brazil: the story of slavery (2015)
United Nations – More than four million slaves were shipped to Brazil from the coast of Africa during the 16th century and onward. But the practice of slavery was abolished in 1888 when abolitionists brought the issue to the forefront. Today, descendants in Danda community – a quilombo – fight for their right to land that their ancestors once lived and worked on for generations.
International Decade for People of African Descent (2015 – 2024)
The years 2015-2024 have been designated by the United Nations as International Decade for People of African Descent. Around 200 million people in the Americas identify themselves as being of African descent. Many millions more live in other parts of the world, outside of the African continent. People like Ervin Simmons in the United States, Sandra dos Santos in Brazil, and Imran in India are all descendants of African slaves. These descendants often constitute some of the poorest and most marginalized groups, with limited access to quality education, health services, housing and social security. The International Decade aims to celebrate the important contributions of people of African descent worldwide, advance social justice and inclusion policies, eradicate racism and intolerance, promote human rights, and assist in creating better, more prosperous communities, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals spearheaded by the United Nations.
Selma (2015)
SELMA is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernays SELMA tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Group Portrait: Short Monologues by Second-generation Holocaust Survivors (2016)
The film features 38 second-generation Holocaust survivors who responded to an invitation I posted on Facebook. I filmed everyone who agreed to take part and you’ll see and hear them all in the film. I didnt ask specific questions , I just asked them to give a brief monologue on the things they find significant as second generation. They choose the film location.
https://www.docushuk.co.il/films/group-portrait-short-monologues-by-second-generation-holocaust-survivors/
Keep Quiet (2016)
Csanad Szegedi’s story is remarkable; as vice-president of Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Szegedi regularly espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. He was a founder of the Hungarian Guard, a now-banned militia inspired by the Arrow Cross, a pro-Nazi party complicit in the murder of thousands of Jews during WWII. Then came a revelation which upended his life: Szegedi’s maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith fearing further persecution.
Keep Quiet depicts Szegedi’s three year journey as he is guided by Rabbi Boruch Oberlander to embrace his newfound religion, forcing him to confront the painful truths of his family’s past, his own wrong doing and the turbulent history of his country. But is this astonishing transformation a process of genuine reparation and spiritual awakening? Or is he simply a desperate man who, having failed to suppress the truth, has nowhere else to turn?
Joseph Martin and Sam Blair, Hungary / U.K., 2016, 90min
In English and Hungarian with English subtitles
The Jews (2016)
A French-Jewish actor seeks counseling and discusses a number of stereotypes concerning Jewish people. Told in the form of short stories that accompany each stereotype.
My Father’s House (2016)
Director: David Greenwald
30min, short documentary (USA)
From his boyhood home in Queens to his father’s boyhood home in Eastern Europe, filmmaker David Greenwald takes you through a multigenerational journey of family, community, faith, and the unspeakable horror of WW2. My Father’s House is an intimate glimpse at one man’s unbreakable spirit, stubborn righteousness, and fierce commitment to building and rebuilding his own destiny.
The Dark Side (2016)
Moshe, age 85, is a holocaust survivor. He survived when his family was murdered. He survived the years in the forest with the Partisans, and the brutal fighting against the Nazis with the Russian army. But unlike other survivors, Moshe came back to Poland after the war, for revenge. Now, Moshe brings his children back to the Polish town where he was born and tells his story.
https://nfct.org.il/en/movies/the-dark-side/
AIDA’S SECRETS (2016)
AIDA’S SECRETS movingly documents family connections lost in the aftermath of WW II and then amazingly found again almost seventy years later. Two brothers, Izak and Shepsel, were babies at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp after World War II but separated and neither told of the others existence. They lived their entire lives – Izak in Israel, Shep in Canada – in the shadow of secrets kept from them by the people closest to them. Finally the genealogical and archival investigation pursued by Izak’s nephews, filmmakers Alon and Shaul Schwarz, brings them together and provides surprising details of the clouded circumstances of their early life, the love story at the center of the mystery and the seemingly enigmatic choices of their mother Aida, while offering a rare glimpse into the little known displaced persons camps, a place where young people who somehow survived the war seized a second chance at life.
Directed By: Alon Schwarz and Shaul Schwarz
Israel/U.S./Germany, 2016, 90m, English and Hebrew with English Subtitles
Joe’s Violin (2016)
In the award-winning short documentary film Joe’s Violin, a donated musical instrument forges an improbable friendship between 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx school girl Brianna Perez, showing how the power of music can bring light in the darkest of times and how a small act can have a great impact.
13th (2016)
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay’s examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country’s history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. This piercing, Oscar-nominated film won Best Documentary at the Emmys, the BAFTAs and the NAACP Image Awards.
Policing the police (2016)
How do you change a troubled police department? FRONTLINE goes inside the Newark Police Department — one of many forces in America ordered to reform. As the country’s debate over race, policing and civil rights continues to unfold, the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb examines allegations of police abuses in Newark, N.J. and the challenge of fixing a broken relationship with the community.
Africa’s Great Civilizations (2017)
Shadows (2017)
For the first time on screen, second-generation children of Holocaust Survivors open up about their abused childhood suffering.
https://vimeo.com/210111798
Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2017)
An intimate journey through the celebrated life and career of the ‘Forrest Gump’ of the animation industry: Disney legend Floyd Norman. Hired as the first African-American at Disney in 1956, Floyd worked on such classics as SLEEPING BEAUTY and 101 DALMATIANS before being handpicked by Walt Disney to join the story team on THE JUNGLE BOOK. On Mr. Norman’s 65th birthday in 2000, Disney HR forced Floyd to retire. Refusing to leave his “home,” Floyd has “hijacked” a cubicle at Disney Publishing, unpaid, for the past 16 years, picking up freelance work when he can. At 81 he continues to have an impact as both an artist and a mentor. Mr. Norman plans to “die at the drawing board.”
Activists of the Past: What Have We Learned? — The Civil Rights Movement (2017)
An intimate journey through the celebrated life and career of the ‘Forrest Gump’ of the animation industry: Disney legend Floyd Norman. Hired as the first African-American at Disney in 1956, Floyd worked on such classics as SLEEPING BEAUTY and 101 DALMATIANS before being handpicked by Walt Disney to join the story team on THE JUNGLE BOOK. On Mr. Norman’s 65th birthday in 2000, Disney HR forced Floyd to retire. Refusing to leave his “home,” Floyd has “hijacked” a cubicle at Disney Publishing, unpaid, for the past 16 years, picking up freelance work when he can. At 81 he continues to have an impact as both an artist and a mentor. Mr. Norman plans to “die at the drawing board.”
Argentina: indigenous people fighting for their lands (2017)
Argentina’s Congress has renewed a law preventing indigenous people from being evicted from land they say belongs to them. Still, those communities are facing an uphill battle in having their land claims recognised, and many say they’ve been attacked by people who want them removed. The communities have to fight to prove their ownership of the land, in spite of the law. Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Formosa in Northern Argentina.
I Am Not Your Negro,(2017)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends-Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
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A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to finally fit in.
Both deeply personal and profoundly contemporary, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a new musical about life and the way we live it.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere. The New York Times calls it “a gut-punching, breathtaking knockout of a musical.” And NBC Nightly News calls this bold new musical “an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond.”
The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society (2018)
In November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy released a report that had been prepared for the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, entitled The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics.This report has set in motion a debate that could have a profound impact on the status of African art held in collections around the world.
During the full-day international symposium, the authors of the report will present their recommendations and reflect on the response that they have received over the past year. A panel of curators, scholars, and cultural entrepreneurs will respond to the issues, which have broad ramifications resonating well beyond Africa and Europe.
Speakers:
Erica P. Jones (Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles);
Daouda Keïta (Musée National du Mali, Bamako);
Pap Ndiaye (Institut d’études politiques de Paris);
Alain Patrice Nganang (Stony Brook University, New York);
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (The Museum of Modern Art, New York);
Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa);
Felwine Sarr (Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal);
Bénédicte Savoy (Technische Universität Berlin; Collège de France);
Z. S. Strother (Columbia University);
and Marie-Cécile Zinsou (Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Bénin).
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University) will serve as moderator and philosopher Paulin J. Hountondji (Université Nationale du Bénin, Cotonou) will act as respondent and lead the final discussion. David Freedberg (Columbia University) will open the symposium.
This event is part of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage. 
Presented by:
Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
With the generous support of:
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Department of Art History, Barnard College
Maison Française, Columbia University
And with a grant from:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Jomama Jones: Black Light – Joe’s Pub Live! From the Archives (2018)
While Joe’s Pub is temporarily closed to public access, join us for Joe’s Pub Live! – a free series of live-streamed and archived performances from our iconic stage in New York City. Facilitating social connectivity during this time of physical distancing, Joe’s Pub remains dedicated to supporting performing artists at every stage of their careers through sharing concerts with our audiences each Thursday, Friday & Saturday night at 8PM Eastern. Closures and cancellations because of COVID-19 have majorly disrupted access to revenue for artists all over the world. If you are enjoying this performance and are able to support, please consider purchasing Jomama’s music in Bandcamp https://jomamajones.bandcamp.com/ BLACK LIGHT is a revival for turbulent times. Jomama Jones invites us to the Crossroads to contemplate what we must choose at this moment in our own lives, in our civic relationships, in our country, and our world(s). featuring Daniel Alexander Jones (Jomama Jones / creator) Trevor Bachman (voice) Tariq al-Sabir (voice, keys) Josh Quat (guitar, voice) Vuyo Sotashe (voice) Michelle Marie Osbourne (bass) Sean Dixon (drums) Like all Joe’s Pub shows, all ages are welcome, but please be aware that performances may include adult language and topics. Recorded live at Joe’s Pub on March 17, 2018
Pass Over – Official Trailer | Amazon Studios (2018)
In this Amazon Original Movie, Academy Award nominee and Honorary Oscar winning Spike Lee captures the poetry, humor and humanity of this urgent and timely play about two young black men talking shit, passing the time, and dreaming of the promised land. A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, PASS OVER written by newcomer Antoinette Nwandu and directed for the stage by Danya Taymor. » SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/AmazonStudiosSubscribe » April 20 on Prime Video About Pass Over: In this Amazon Original Movie, Academy Award nominee and Honorary Oscar winning Spike Lee captures the poetry, humor and humanity of this urgent and timely play about two young black men talking shit, passing the time, and dreaming of the promised land. A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, PASS OVER written by newcomer Antoinette Nwandu and directed for the stage by Danya Taymor.
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The German (2018)
A docu-fiction thriller. Noga inherits the crumbling farm of her holocaust survivor grandmother, and hires the help of a stalwart young German, to handle the property. The German suggests that he move in with Noga in return for taking on more of the house work, to which both Noga’s grandmother and mother are strictly opposed. A love affair develops between them, but their relationship is undermined when Noga begins to suspect that he is plotting something evil.
https://www.docaviv.co.il/2018-en/films/the-german/
The Silence of Others (2018)
Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. The film offers a cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past, and speaks powerfully to issues of transitional justice and universal jurisdiction.
Grandfather Zvi revealed his journey of vengeance – vengeance that he eventually regretted. He had shot and killed Poles who had given his family up to the Nazis.On an investigative journey between Israel and Poland, his paraplegic grandson Tsafrir tries to find the true story regards a testimony found lately.
The Good Nazi (2018)
It tells the story of Major Karl Plagge, a Nazi officer who, during the Holocaust, was commandant of a forced labor camp called “HKP” in Vilnius, Lithuania. In reality, he was sheltering hundreds of Jewish families. By the end, many were saved in hiding places dug into the ground and carved into the walls. Many more were executed by the SS and buried in a mass grave. Today, the former “HKP” is unchanged. A group of scientists arrive to locate the hiding places of those that were saved and identify the mass grave of those who were murdered. A child survivor of the camp and an American physician, whose mother was saved by Major Plagge, join them. The film tracks their three stories and, ultimately, brings to light the unknown tale of a Schindler-type German who listened to his conscience, instead of his superiors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsxDUsFxfk
Anatomy of a Suicide (2018)
Winner of the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Anatomy of a Suicideis a revelatory exploration of mothers and daughters by Alice Birch(Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.), directed by Obie Award winner Lileana Blain-Cruz (Marys Seacole).
Shadows (2018)
“Shadows” – a documentary film by Noa Aharoni
Producers – David Noy, Yoram Ivry
Produced for Channel 8 (Israel)
with funding by The New Israeli Fund for Television & Cinema.
Witness Theater, USA (2018)
Witness Theater: The Film reveals what happens when students confront the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust face-to-face with actual survivors – the last generation of survivors. Sacred personal stories, never before told, and until now too painful to share, are bestowed on the young as a precious gift, ensuring that a new generation will be able to bear witness and never forget.
This moving film is about the power of connection, friendship, and love between generations – of healing, to the extent possible – in the context of the most brutal genocide in human history.
Broken Places (2018)
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms BROKEN PLACES explores why some children are permanently damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting some of the abused and neglected children we profiled decades ago, we’re able to dramatically illustrate how early trauma shaped their lives as adults. BROKEN PLACES interweaves these longitudinal narratives with commentary from a few internationally renowned experts to help viewers better understand the devastating impact of childhood adversity as well as the inspiring characteristics of resilience.
Who Will Write Our History (2018)
In November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars and community leaders decides to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, this clandestine group vows to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda, not with guns or fists but with pen and paper.
Henri Dauman: Looking Up (2018)
You might not know the name of French photographer Henri Dauman but you definitely know the iconic pictures he’s taken. The self-taught perfectionist captured thousands of images of Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol and perhaps, most famously, the black-veiled Jackie Kennedy as she made her way up Pennsylvania Avenue in JFK’s 1963 funeral procession. When Elvis Presley was discharged from the US Army in 1960, Dauman was so close you can even see the intrepid lensman, camera in hand, in newsreels of the rocker’s return. Yet behind the dazzling success of four decades as a Life magazine photojournalist was a childhood haunted by tragedy. Dauman’s Jewish father perished in Auschwitz. During the Nazi occupation, his mother managed to keep her young son alive by hiding him in a rural French town. But after the war’s end, she died after accidentally ingesting poisoned bicarbonate purchased on the black market. Barely out of his teens, Dauman made his way to New York where he established himself as a leading photographer for millions of Life’sweekly readers. This chronicle threads two fascinating journeys of the picture artist: an intimate look at Dauman’s creative path and an emotional trip back to find the French country home where he nearly died in a hail of German bullets.
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Political documentary and personal memoir collide in this exploration into the complex truth behind the unraveling of two Brazilian presidencies.
The Song of Names (2019)
Martin Simmonds (Tim Roth) has been haunted throughout his life by the mysterious disappearance of his “brother” and extraordinary best friend, a Polish Jewish virtuoso violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, who vanished shortly before the 1951 Londondebut concert that would have launched his brilliant career. Thirty-five years later, Martin discovers that Dovidl (Clive Owen) may still be alive, and sets out on an obsessive intercontinental search to find him and learn why he left.
Let the People Decide (2019)
The struggle over voting rights is headline news. This fight goes back generations as strategies to suppress the vote have evolved over the decades. Are race and politics inseparable?
We Shall Not Die Now (2019)
chronicle of the Holocaust, exploring stories of survival, tragedy, hope, and resilience through one of history’s darkest chapters.
Inside Look | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019)
See how our past affects our present with this inside look of Reconstruction with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019).
Experience the aftermath of the Civil War — a bewildering, exhilarating and terrifying time. African Americans who had played a crucial role in the war now grapple with the terms and implications of Reconstruction and their hard-won freedom.
Town Hall – APA Addresses Structural Racism, Part Two: The March Continues (2020)
APA leadership and an esteemed panel of experts commemorate the 57th Anniversary of the March on Washington in August 1963. The march drew attention to the continuing challenges and inequalities faced by Black Americans a century after emancipation. It is also where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his now-iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The town hall examines:
– How the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is an outgrowth of the civil rights initiatives reducing the inequalities faced by Black people and their families.
– Impact of racial injustices within APA and psychiatry.
– How far we still must go to address structural racism and the charge of APA’s Presidential Task Force.
APA Past President Dr. Altha Stewart, AMA Chief Health Equity Officer and Group Vice President Dr. Aletha Maybank, and 2020-21 REACH scholar Dr. Kevin Simon join APA President Dr. Jeffrey Geller to discuss how structural racism plays a role in these inequalities and propose solutions to improve Black Americans’ mental health outcomes.
Unforgivable (2020)
directed by Giosue Petrone What happens when the person who nearly destroyed your life asks for forgiveness? Unforgivable explores the relationship between Alice, a Tutsi woman who lost her child and her hand in the genocide of the Hutu against the Tutsi in 1994, and Emmanuel, the Hutu man who attacked her and her family.
The New York Times Presents The #1619Project (2019)
Four hundred years ago, on August 20, 1619, a ship carrying about 20 enslaved Africans arrived in Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia. Though America did not even exist yet, their arrival marked its foundation, the beginning of the system of slavery on which the country was built. In August, The New York Times Magazine will observe this anniversary with a special project that examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States.
How Racism and Inequality Are Influencing the Rise of Legalized Cannabis in the United States (2019)
Recently, the Open Society Foundations’ New York City office held a screening of Grass Is Greener, a new documentary that raises challenging questions about how the legacy of the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and racial injustice in the United States has influenced the country’s burgeoning legal cannabis industry.
After the screening, a panel discussion was held, featuring Kojo Koram, editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line; Kassandra Frederique, the New York state director of the Drug Policy Alliance; Jessica Souto, a co-founder of Movimentos, a collective of young favela-based activists from Rio de Janeiro; and Mame Bougouma Diene, a program officer with the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program.
Using the film as a starting point, the panelists discussed how harsh antidrug policies have historically been used as tools to suppress and marginalize racial minorities, as well as how policymakers and civil society members can address these injustices and ensure positive reform.
Listen to the audio of the event to learn more.
Chained (2019)
On the stage at the Academy Awards in February 2019, Israeli director Guy Nattiv accepted his Oscar for Best Live Action Short invoking his grandparents, who are Holocaust survivors. “The bigotry they experienced … we see that everywhere today,” he said. “This film … is about teaching your kids a better way.”
Skin, a short bio-drama set in the United States, is a powerful parable about a neo-Nazi skinhead and his son, about the sins of a father and the awakening of a child. It is a lesson in history repeating itself in different guises.
Skin (2019)
On the stage at the Academy Awards in February 2019, Israeli director Guy Nattiv accepted his Oscar for Best Live Action Short invoking his grandparents, who are Holocaust survivors. “The bigotry they experienced … we see that everywhere today,” he said. “This film … is about teaching your kids a better way.”
Skin, a short bio-drama set in the United States, is a powerful parable about a neo-Nazi skinhead and his son, about the sins of a father and the awakening of a child. It is a lesson in history repeating itself in different guises.
Fighting Hate From Home | Audit of Antisemitic Incidents (2019)
On Tuesday, ADL released the results of our 40th annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents in America, and we invite you to join us for an important conversation about the results of the audit and its far-ranging implications. Poway, Jersey City and Monsey topped the list of deadly incidents in 2019 and other forms of hate against Jews like harassment, assaults and antisemitic graffiti were reported in nearly every state, and affected people of every age, from K-12 students to older adults. Join ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and our Center on Extremism team for this conversation about the results, and ways you can take action to fight antisemitism. Sign up for future Fighting Hate From Home webinars at: http://www.adl.org/webinars
Safer In Silence (2019)
Safer in Silence by Corinne Niox Chateau A feature-length documentary: Corinne— estranged from her mother, (a WWII refugee), searches for the truth of her family’s hidden past. Uncovering Jewish roots, she is pulled into a complex journey spanning 30 years and discovering family dispersed over five continents. On the journey she is met with startling revelations that force her to face the patterns of hiding and secrecy that have profoundly affected her life.
Those Who Remained (2019)
Barnabas Toth, Hungary, 2019, 83mHungarian with English subtitles. The 42-year-old Aldo lives a solitary life in Budapest in the years following his imprisonment and the loss of his wife and child during the Holocaust. When he meets 16-year-old Klara, whose family was also murdered by the Nazis, they form a father-daughter connection that helps them both heal. As Hungary falls under the postwar shadow of the Soviet Union, the innocence of their relationship is called into question. Toth’s film is a lyrical meditation on the power of love to bolster the human spirit in the face of trauma and conflict. Hungary’s submission for the 2020 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (2019)
Caroline Link, Germany/Switzerland, 2019, 120m German with English subtitles.This stunning film from the director of the Academy Award–winning Nowhere in Africahas the grand dramatic sweep and ravishing visuals of cinematic epics from an earlier era. Based on the best-selling novel by Judith Kerr, the film begins in 1933, following 9-year-old Anna, who isn’t overly concerned with the changes coming to Berlin and the creeping dread of Hitler’s rise to power until her own father goes missing. Moving with her mother and brother to Switzerland, then Paris, then London, Anna experiences family disruption, dislocation, and assimilation into a new life. Caroline Link’s film offers a moving perspective on the experience of German Jews who fled the country before the war.
AN UNTOLD STORY (2019)
Growing up on New York’s Upper West Side, I knew my mother as “Tamar.” She spoke with a thick Polish accent, had flaming red hair, painted her lips hot pink and wove a dramatic tale of escaping Europe on the eve of World War II when she was a little girl. “I was never a victim,” she’d say. “I was a freedom fighter.” But as I got older, I realized, her stories were as half-baked as the Sarah-Lee frozen pies she’d try to pass off as homemade. Whenever I asked for clarity, she’d reply: “No more questions.” Then nearly 20 years after she died, my elderly great aunt has a slip of the tongue and out comes a revelation – my mother had a secret identity.
So here I was a mother and a journalist. I built a career interviewing others, and the person I thought closest to me turns out to be a stranger. I didn’t even know her name. It used to hurt me when she’d say: “You’re not my daughter.” Whose daughter was I? I drop everything to find out.
My Underground Mother is a gripping, first-person documentary film about my search for my late mother’s hidden identity that led me on a 7-year trek around the world excavating a buried past from the rubble of a Nazi women’s camp in a remote Czech town and the fading pages of a hidden diary penned by its inmates, 60 Polish Jewish girls who were trafficked there as teenage Nazi slaves, one of whom was my mother. Shot on location throughout the United States, Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Israel and Canada, My Underground Mother is a story about post-Holocaust identity lost and found, of a daughter hungering for connection with a mother, an empowering women’s story of trauma, survival, resistance, resilience and reinvention.
Marisa Fox has written for The New York Times, Haaretz, Elle, InStyle, O, New York, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Incitement (2019)
Israeli Academy Award Winner INCITEMENT is a psychological thriller, follows the year leading to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, from the point of view of the assassin. The film details, for the first time, the forces that act upon the assassin, including the religious and political incitement, the personal and the interpersonal turmoil. It is a psychological portrait of a political assassin seeking to kill democracy. It is also a portrait of a torn society on the brink of civil war.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi612286233?playlistId=tt10122392&ref_=tt_ov_vi
Next Generation (2019)
The film tells the story of the heroic people who rescued the entire Jewish population of Bulgaria during World War II and because of their actions offered a chance to next active generations. This is not a historical movie, but rather an emotional journey of the direct descendants of the local survivors, who are looking for their family roots and long-lost ties with their father’s homeland while revealing the unknown history of Bulgaria during Second World War.
https://vimeo.com/366016891
Waves (2019)
Waves is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. It stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lucas Hedges, Taylor Russell, Alexa Demie, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Sterling K. Brown. Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, it traces the emotional journey of a suburban family as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019, and was released in the United States on November 15, 2019, by A24. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances (particularly that of Harrison, Russell, and Brown), cinematography, and Shults’ direction, but drew criticism for its portrayal of race.
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (2019)
Signature Theatre continues its 2019-2020 Off-Broadway season with the New York premiere of Lauren Yee’s play with music Cambodian Rock Band, directed by Chay Yew.
Guitars tuned. Mic checked. Get ready to rock. This electric new play with music tells the story of a Khmer Rouge survivor returning back to Cambodia for the first time in thirty years as his daughter prepares to help prosecute one of Cambodia’s most infamous war criminals. Backed by a live band playing contemporary Dengue Fever hits and classic Cambodian oldies, this thrilling story toggles back and forth in time, as father and daughter face the music of the past. Cambodian Rock Band is an intimate rock epic about family secrets, set against a dark chapter of Cambodian history.
“TILL – A New Musical” A child’s murder becomes a worldwide awakening. (2019)
TILL is the emotional and moving true story of Emmett and Mamie Till. In 1955, a black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi was murdered. His body was thrown in the Tallahatchie River where it was discovered three days later, mutilated and unrecognizable. His mother bravely insisted that he have an open casket funeral so that “the world would see” what they had done to her child. This crime and her impassioned response were catalysts for the subsequent civil rights protests of the era.
Book by Leo Schwartz & DC Cathro
Music & Lyrics by Leo Schwartz
Bosnia’s invisible children: Living in dignity | DW Documentary (2019)
During the war in Yugoslavia, thousands of Bosnian women were raped and many became pregnant as a result. But their children are even now not recognized as war victims. The NGO “Forgotten Children of War” aims to change that.
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, they are known as “Nevidljiva djeca”- “invisible children.” Their mothers were raped, by enemy soldiers during the war in Yugoslavia – and sometimes also by UN peacekeepers. The Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences estimates that between 2,000 and 4,000 Bosnian children were born after their mothers had been raped during the war. Often marginalized and stigmatized by society, many of these “invisible children” who are now young adults have led miserable lives. Ajna Jusić is the daughter of a Bosnian Muslim woman who was raped by a Croatian soldier during the conflict. For years she knew nothing of her mother’s ordeal. But now her NGO “Forgotten Children of War” wants to bring these “invisible children” together and give them a voice. She says it is a matter of recognition and respect and is pressing the Bosnian government to officially recognize them as war victims.
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My Name Is Sara – trailer (2019)
Based on the true-life story of a 13 year-old Polish Jew who lost her family to the holocaust in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukraine, Sara takes her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she hides in plain sight, masquerading as an Orthodox Christian in the Ukrainian countryside.
Liberation Heroes: The Last Eye Witnesses (2019)
The documentary explores what can happen when insidious hatred remains unchecked. Through firsthand testimony of WWII liberators and liberation witnesses, from Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive®, stark parallels between the past and present are revealed. As Nazis march again in broad daylight and xenophobic and antisemitic attitudes reemerge, Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses serves as a cautionary tale from the greatest generation to heed their warning and take a stand against hate.
LA CASA DE WANNSEE (2019)
Argentina 2019 – Director: Poli Martínez Kaplun – Original language: Spanish – Subtitles: English
From Wannsee to Argentina and back, Poli Martínez Kaplun goes in search of her Jewish family’s roots. The director recounts over one and a half centuries of Jewish history and stumbles across family and other secrets.
English/Original Title: THE HOUSE ON WANNSEE STREET. German title: DAS WANNSEE-HAUS. Writer: Poli Martínez Kaplun, Esteban Student. Camera: Hernan Menendez. Sound: Lucho Corti. Editing: Ernesto Felder. Music: Cesar Lerner. Production: Mc Producciones SRl. Producer: Marcelo Céspedes. Length: 70 min. International Sales: Poli Martínez Kaplun.
Poli Martínez Kaplun is working as a director, producer and writer. After her debut film LEA AND MIRA from 2016 about two polish-jewish women who survived Auschwitz as children, LA CASA DE WANNSEE is her second feature-length documentary.
LEA AND MIRA, AR 2016, 52 min.
WINTER JOURNEY (2019)
Denmark, Germany 2019 – Director: Anders Østergaard – Original language: English, German – Subtitles: English
Documentary or fiction? In a challenging conversation Martin Goldsmith uncovers the hushed-up story of his Jewish parents. A hybrid tale about the search for identity, which is as touching as it is captivating as a result of its unusual form.
German title: WINTERREISE. Co-Director: Erzsebet Racz. Writer: Anders Østergaard und Martin Goldsmith. Camera: Henner Besuch. Sound: Dominik Schleier. Editing: Anders Villadsen. Production: zero one film. Producer: Thomas Kufus, Weitere Produzenten: Mette Heide / Plus Pictures (DK). Length: 88 min. Distribution: RFF REAL FICTION FILMVERLEIH e.K.
IT TAKES A FAMILY (2019)
Denmark 2019 – Director: Susanne Kovács – Original language: English, Danish – Subtitles: English
Family is good, coming to terms with it is better: as the granddaughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and daughter of a German mother, the young Danish director Susanne Kovács is caught between two stools. Born and raised in Denmark, she always embodied the horror of the past for her grandparents. English/Original Title: DE SKYGGER VI ARVER. Writer: Susanne Kovács. Camera: Casper Høyberg, Susanne Kovács. Editing: Marion Tuor. Music: Povl Kristian. Production: Copenhagen Film Company Short & Doc. Producer: Ulrik Gutkin. Length: 60 min. International Sales: Taskovski Films LTD..
The Painted Bird (2019)
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosiriski novel, THE PAINTED BIRD is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War I. The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to village, farmhouse to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock. The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its fellows. That lesson reinforces all The Boy already knows and will soon know better: difference is fatal. But there are rare moments of compassion: a German soldier spares The Boy, a priest intervenes on his behalf, and finally The Boy becomes the protégé of a Russian sniper, who is kind to the child, but ruthless with the enemy. And there are signs of love. The Boy is seduced by an older girl, finally re-discovering the comfort of intimacy, only to realize that he has been used. When he is miraculously reunited with his weakened father at the end of the war, The Boy is cold and impenetrable, hardened by his ordeal. Yet we can still glimpse something of the old, sensitive Boy behind the eyes of the new. Perhaps there is hope.
Summerland (2020)
Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she’s to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she’s resistant. It’s not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love’s endurance in trying times.
(2020), פולין 19 קאלושין
ביקור בעיירת קאלושין שנמצאת 50 ק”מ ממזרח לוורשה. בעיירה חיו בני משפחתי עד לתקופת השואה. בעיירה היו חיים יהודיים במשך מאות בשנים. נבקר בעיירה בה כיום אין אף יהודי. לאחר הביקור תראו תמונות מימים עברו מהתקופה בה חיו בה יהודים שהוו רוב בעיירה.כמו כן סקירה על המשפחה ומה קרה לה בתקופת המלחמה והשואה. ובנוסף סקירה על מחנה המוות טרבליקה אליו הגיעו יהודים מגטו וורשה ומקאלושין. צעירי קאלושין ברחו לרוסיה חלקם נשלח לסיביר ולאחר מכן לקזחסטן בה שהו בתקופת המלחמה וכך ניצלו חלקם הגדול. כמו כן תראו סרטון על חיי היהודים לפני המלחמה בוורשה
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Sing interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
The Crimes That Bind (2020)
The crimes That Bind is about a desperate and confused, Alicia will do the impossible to keep her son from prison after he’s convicted of trying to murder his ex-wife.
The UK’s first Black Girls’ magazine (2020)
Serlina Boyd had an empowering idea to help build her six-year-old daughter’s confidence after she experienced difficulties at school because of the colour of her skin. She decided to publish and design the Cocoa Girl book and magazine to empower black girls around the world who are more likely to be insulted about their looks by the age of 8 years old.
Cocoa Girl Magazine is filled with inspiring and empowering content for young Black Girls aged 7-14 years old.
Our mission is to build a community for young Black Girls who are misrepresented a lot of the time in the media. This magazine also supports parents and carers.
The Rainforest Alliance Honors Indigenous Leader (2020)
Published on Jun 24, 2020 . The Rainforest Alliance is delighted to present its annual Community Honoree Award to Walter Sangama Sangama, the president of the Federation of Kichwa Indigenous Communities (FEPIKRESAM) in the San Martin region of Peru. The federation plays an important role in protecting the communal lands that buffer the Peruvian Amazon.
Father Soldier Son (2020)
his intimate documentary from The New York Times follows one military family over the course of ten years, becoming an intergenerational exploration of the meaning of sacrifice, purpose and American manhood in the aftermath of war. Directed by Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn.
Techno-Racism and Human Rights: A Conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism (2020)
On July 23, 2020, the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project, based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law, presented an event together with the Special Rapporteur on Racism about her recent report to the UN Human Rights Council on racial discrimination and emerging digital technologies. This event and report come at a moment of international crises, including a global wave of protests and human rights activism against police brutality and systemic racism after the killing of George Floyd and a pandemic which, among many other tragic impacts, has laid bare how deeply embedded inequality, racism, xenophobia and intolerance are in our societies.
Brazil: Double epidemic of COVID-19 and racism (2020)
“As the black population in Brazil, we still have to face police brutality, we still have to face inequality in many different ways. And now, hunger and poverty and COVID-19.” Dalila Negreiros is a Brazilian human rights defender calling on her government to do more.
Stateless (2020)
TV series (6 episodes).
Inspired by true events; a woman escaping a cult, a refugee fleeing with his family, a father trapped in a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat on the verge of a national scandal find their lives intertwined in an immigration detention centre.
Passing the Baton (July, 2020)
With the recent passing of Civil Rights legends Congressman John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian, many people are focusing on who will take the baton of leadership and carry it forward. In today’s episode, we are joined by two of the country’s most inspirational young leaders — Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs and Stockton First Partner Anna Malaika Nti-Asare-Tubbs whose work will be featured in a new HBO documentary, “Stockton On My Mind,” which debuts July 28th. From Universal Basic Income to fighting for gender justice to being new parents, Michael and Anna discuss their respective and collective work to carry on the struggle for justice and equality.
https://democracyincolor.com/podepisodes/2020/7/23/passing-the-batonKontora (2020)
Having already lost her mother, high schooler Sora (Wan Marui) is hit especially hard by the passing of her grandfather. Frustrated and lonely in the countryside with her distant father (Taichi Yamada), she is fascinated with the old man’s WWII diary featuring vivid sketches and stories of the horrors of war, as well as suggestions of treasure buried in the local forest. The appearance of a mysterious mute man perpetually walking backwards (Hidemasa Mase) brings simmering tensions to a boil. Kontora offers a haunting tale of how one era can speak to another as well as the pain of being lost in memories; an exceptionally accomplished second feature shot in just 10 days by Anshul Chauhan, featuring rich black-and-white cinematography by Max Golomidov and an evocative score by Yuma Koda.
Understanding of Trans/Multidimensional Nature of Multigenerational Legacies of (Massive) Trauma as the Context for Sustainable Prevention (Activism)
Moderator: Yael Danieli, International Center for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (US) Roger S. Clark, Rutgers University (US) Carla Ferstman, University of Essex (UK) André Laperrière, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) (UK) Adam Lupel, International Peace Institute (US). Columbia University, December 12th, 2019.
Kids Book Read Aloud: WHY WE STAY HOME – SUZIE LEARNS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS by Harris, Scott and Rodis (2020)
The uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic has upended the daily lives of children across the globe, leaving parents and caregivers struggling to explain the changes. Two medical students in California say their desire to help bridge that gap in understanding inspired them to write a free children’s book, titled “Why We Stay Home.” Authors Samantha Harris and Devon Scott share their story.
The Truth (2020)
Legends of French cinema Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche join masterful filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters, Still Walking) to paint a moving portrait of family dynamics in THE TRUTH. Fabienne (Catherine Deneuve) is an aging French movie star who, despite her momentary lapses in memory, remains a venerable force to be reckoned with. Upon the publication of her memoirs, her daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche) returns to Paris from New York with her husband (Ethan Hawke) and their young daughter to commemorate its release. A sharp and funny battle of wits ensues between the mother-daughter duo, as Lumir takes issue with Fabienne’s rose-colored version of the past. Reflected cleverly by Fabienne’s latest role in a sci-fi drama, their strained relationship takes a poignant journey toward possible reconciliation. Charming, bold, and imbued with endless emotional insight, THE TRUTH offers a relatable look at human relationships, featuring exquisite performances from its all-star cast
Imagining the Indian: OFFICIAL TRAILER (2020)
“Imagining the Indian,” a documentary film currently in production at The Ciesla Foundation about the movement to eradicate Native American names, logos and mascots in the world of sports and beyond, today unveiled its website, imaginingtheindianfilm.org.
Michael Brown- Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, Joel Thompson (2020)
joel Thompson’s 15-minute piece echoes the liturgical structure of Haydn’s “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” The first movement is a moody setting of “Why do you have your guns out?” — the final words of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., who was shot and killed by a bullet from an officer’s .40-caliber pistol in White Plains, New York, in 2011. After moving through the words of Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Brown, Oscar Grant and John Crawford, the final section is a stirring rendering of Garner’s words, now a rallying cry: “I can’t breathe.”
1000 Mondays (2020)
1000 Mondays tells the story of ordinary people facing the extraordinary loss and trauma of terrorism. Sofía’s daughter Andrea was just 28 years old when she was killed in the 1994 bombing of the main Jewish community center of Buenos Aires. On an ordinary morning, Andrea happened to go into the AMIA building, located in the heart of the city center, on a fateful Monday when a bombing would destroy it. Andrea was one of 85 people killed that day, and hundreds more were wounded in the worst terrorist attack in Argentina’s history. And yet, 26 years later, it is still unsolved, leaving a profound trauma for Sofía and other family members of those killed, who are still grappling with the loss of that day. It also leaves a social trauma for concerned citizens who worry for their safety in a country where accountability and justice can be elusive. Despite the many years that have passed, and the many Mondays that have passed since that one day in July 1994, they are still hoping for some justice, or truth, or at the least, to find a way to hold on to the memory of their loved ones, so their lives are not forgotten as time moves forward, from Monday to Monday.
Fast Blood (2020)
Fast Blood by Judy Tate Directed by Beth Milles Produced by Civic Ensemble in association with American Slavery Project With: Messeret Stroman Wheeler, Godfrey L. Simmons, Ryan Hope Travis, Vernice Miller, Saba Weatherspoon, Sarah K Chalmers, Jacob White, and Joshua Sedelmeyer
1845, Kentucky, a black couple, Ham and Effie who live by themselves on Schuyler’s tobacco plantation, stumble across the body of a lynched man who is still alive. When they cut him down their connection with this mysterious stranger thrusts them into a world of danger and forces them to reckon with their pasts, survive their present and fight for their uncertain futures.
BLACK WOMEN AND THE BALLOT: 3 SHORT RADIO DRAMAS (2020)
Ensemble, Crossroads Theatre Company, The Sheen Center, HartBeat Ensemble, Liberation Theatre Company, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Conch Shell Productions, Tony Howell + Company, Harlem Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Society for Ethical Culture, TRIBE, Broadway Inspirational Voices, Bridge Street Theatre, and The New Black Fest! ❤️ #BLACKWOMENBALLOT Three radio drama performances: In The Parlour (written by Judy K. Tate & dir. by Dianne Kirksey-Floyd), Don’t / Dream (written by Saviana Stanescu & dir. by Judy K. Tate), and Pulling The Lever (written & dir. by Judy K. Tate). Also featuring a Q&A session moderated by Melissa Maxwell ft. Judy Tate, Messeret Stroman Wheeler, Lynnette Freeman, Celestine Rae, and Valencia Yearwood. Cast: Phylicia Rashad, Messeret Stroman Wheeler, Lynnette R. Freeman, Gabrielle Camille Archer, Montana Lampert Hoover, and Celestine Rae. 🙌🏿
SCRAPS – by Geraldine Inoa – West Coast Premiere (2020)
Set in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, three months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer, ‘SCRAPS’ is a provocative mash up of poetry, realism and expressionism that chronicles the effects of his death on his family and friends. West Coast Premiere @ The Matrix Theatre, 2019 Written by Geraldine Inoa Directed by Obie Award Winning Stevie Walker-Webb Ensemble Stan Mayer, Tyrin Niles, Ashlee Olivia, Damon Rutledge, Ahkei Togun, & Denise Yolén Producer – Joseph Stern Set Design – John Iacovelli Lighting Design – Brian Gale & Zo Haynes Sound Design – Jeff Gardner Costume Design- Wendell C. Carmichael Props Master – David Saewert Stage Manager – Rita Cofield Assistant Stage Managers – Andrea Fiorentini & Christian Kelly Fight Choreography – Ahmed Best Rigger – Ian O’Connor Casting Director – Jami Rudofsky Publicity – Lucy Pollak Associate Producer – Gabrieal Griego Videographer – David Haverty, http://www.OddDogPictures.com Post Audio Clean Up – Joesph ‘Sloe’ Slawinski, https://sloeaudio.weebly.com/index.html Matrix Theatre Company: http://www.matrixtheatre.com
The Banker — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ (2020)
Inspired by true events, “The Banker” centers on revolutionary businessmen Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), who devise an audacious and risky plan to take on the racist establishment of the 1960s by helping other African Americans pursue the American dream. Along with Garrett’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), they train a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult), to pose as the rich and privileged face of their burgeoning real estate and banking empire – while Garrett and Morris pose as a janitor and a chauffeur. Their success ultimately draws the attention of the federal government, which threatens everything the four have built. The drama is directed by George Nolfi (“The Adjustment Bureau”) and produced by Joel Viertel. Brad Feinstein produced under his Romulus Entertainment banner, along with producers Nolfi, Nnamdi Asomugha, Jonathan Baker, David Lewis Smith and Anthony Mackie. The executive producers are Joseph F. Ingrassia, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Greenfield, David Gendron and Ali Jazayeri. “The Banker” is written by Niceole Levy, George Nolfi, David Lewis Smith and Stan Younger from a story by David Lewis Smith, Stan Younger and Brad Caleb Kane.
Anti-Racism and Allyship (July, 2020)
In partnership with MoveOn, NARAL, PCCC, Indivisible, NextGen, UltraViolet, and others, we are launching a livestream event series for our collective membership to discuss the political and cultural significance of the Black lives protests. This series will focus on educating and organizing our memberships to be stronger allies and fully embrace a stance of anti-racism.
International Horizons, Episode 14 (2020)
Episode Fourteen of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies’ new podcast, International Horizons, is out now.
For Episode Fourteen, John Torpey, Ralph Bunche Institute Director, has a discussion with Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin, the global movement towards coming to terms with the history of racial oppression, how a nation’s history affects the way that this plays out, and where society can go from here.
For Episode Fourteen, John Torpey, Ralph Bunche Institute Director, has a discussion with Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin, the global movement towards coming to terms with the history of racial oppression, how a nation’s history affects the way that this plays out, and where society can go from here.
Reimagining Safety: Policing, Abolition, and the Future of Democracy (2020)
PRISON CIRCLE (2020)
This singular documentary—shot over two years after six years of negotiating for unprecedented permission to shoot inside a Japanese prison—follows the emotional and psychological journey of four young male inmates at Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Center as they participate in Therapeutic Community, an unconventional group conversation-based rehabilitation program that encourages participants to talk through their experiences in order to better understand themselves and the consequences of their crimes. Initially skeptical, the inmates gradually open up and provide heartbreaking testimonies of childhoods filled with poverty, violence, and abandonment, which are visualized onscreen with sand animations. A continuation of director Kaori Sakagami’s career-long interest in trauma and the process of recovery, Prison Circle provides compelling evidence for the dire need of empathy in the process of rehabilitation and a vision for the potential future of decarceration.
Miss Juneteenth Trailer #1 (2020)
Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen–she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slaves in Texas were freed–two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to become Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else.
Minority of One (2020)
Tells the story of Hussein Aboubakr, a former political refugee from Cairo, Egypt.
Hussein was born in 1989 to an Arab Muslim family in Cairo, Egypt. After being exposed to antisemitic propaganda throughout his youth, Hussein decided to teach himself Hebrew in order to better understand how fight the “enemy”.
The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist (2020)
There is no such thing as being “not racist,” says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world — and replace it with love. (This virtual interview, hosted by TED’s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha, was recorded June 9, 2020.)
Resistance (2020)
Starring: Ed Harris, Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy Directed By: Jonathan Jakubowicz. The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
‘Race Matters: America in Crisis’ (2020)
Across the United States, frustration and outrage are pouring out onto the streets over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, as well as deep, systemic racial disparities in education, the criminal justice system, the economy and health care, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DISPLACED (2020)
Germany 2020 – Director: Sharon Ryba-Kahn – Original language: Yiddish, English, German – Subtitles: English
After years of radio silence, Sharon Ryba-Kahn re-established contact with her father. She talks to him about his absence and his family. From the perspective of someone who belongs to the third generation after the Shoah, the young woman examines herself and her German surroundings. English/Original Title: DISPLACED. Writer: Sharon Ryba-Kahn. Camera: Omri Aloni. Sound: Kai Ziarkowski. Editing: Evelyn Rack. Music: Dascha Dauenhauer. Production: Tondowski Films GbR. Producer: Alex Tondowski und Ira Tondowski. Length: 87 min.
https://www.kino-zeit.de/film-kritiken-trailer-streaming/displaced-2020
THE HOUSE ON WANNSEE STREET (2020)
The House on Wannsee Street
Memoirs of a German Jewish Family
Generations of family secrets are uncovered in this sweeping international story that begins with the Second World War and concludes with an emotional twenty-first century revelation. When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided to dig deep into her family history, she found a shocking discovery. Searching through family albums and 8mm home movies, she unraveled a twentieth-century mystery. What she found were long-forgotten images of her great grandfather, who she learned was a German-Jewish philosopher persecuted by the Nazis. To save his family from the concentration camps, he was forced to flee Berlin and moved to Egypt, then Switzerland, and finally Argentina, where they had to hide their Jewish identity in order to receive Church papers to enter the country (since after the Second World War Jews were not permitted entry as immigrants). Poignant questions of identity, resilience, compassion, and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life as Poli confronts her mother and aunts about the hidden Jewish identity they have concealed ever since. Eighty years later, Poli returns to Germany to their family house on Wannsee Street, a few feet from where the Final Solution was decreed for all Jews in Europe.
Alex Newell – I Know Where I’ve Been – AIDS Walk New York (2020)
Alex Newell (Once on the Island, Glee) and the Sounds of Zamar came together recently for a moving rendition of “I Know Where I’ve Been,” from Hairspray. AIDS Walk New York posted the video on its YouTube channel after postponing its “Live at Home” event yesterday “in response to the murder of George Floyd, the systemic racism it reflects, the ongoing police abuses, and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.” Hairspray co-writer Marc Shaiman lent his keyboard to the rousing tribute. Watch Newell and the Sounds of Zamar here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkxJ7UlVRc&feature=youtu.be
Fighting Hate From Home | How COVID-19 Widens the Gaps for Communities of Color (2020)
In this time of anxiety and isolation, we want to keep you informed and involved as part of the ADL community with our series of Fighting Hate from Home webinars.
Morial joined ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt to explore the disproportionate consequences of COVID-19 on this country’s most vulnerable communities, and the need to make rebuilding efforts equitable, whether in financial aid or access to healthcare support. Morial also talked about the National Urban League’s role as an ‘economic first responder’ to the crisis.
Jonathan and Morial emphasized that the hate spawned by the crisis doesn’t just target one group, so it is vital for those who fight hate to be united in standing up, speaking out, and teaching others how to reject this dangerous extremism.
The Last Survivors, Documentary (2020)
As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. More than seventy years after World War II, some of the last remaining survivors recount their memories and the lingering trauma.
FRONTLINE offers a haunting look at how disturbing childhood experiences and unimaginable loss have affected the daily lives and relationships of some of the Holocaust’s youngest victims – from survivor’s guilt, to crises of faith and second-generation trauma.
Revenge of the Somatic – Baba Brinkman Music Video (2020)
A cancer cell rebels against the tyranny of the body, revealing the hidden evolutionary logic behind carcinogenesis.
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A Mandolin in Exile (2020)
Modhurchora Refugee Camp, at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the largest of its kind in the world, where millions of Rohingya refugees are confined. In this land of no-hope, filled with extreme despair of existential struggle, rays of hope are being ignited by a lone native musician. Mohammad (Ahmed) Hossain, the ‘Mandolin man’ refuged here along with millions of Rohingyas out of fear, threat and massacre instituted by Myanmar military force since August, 2017. Hossain is a passionate musician. He used to compose songs incorporating day-to-day reality of his people and express their hopes through his accompanying voice of Mandolin. Among the Muslim community of Rohingya, practice of music is forbidden by religion. Yet Ahmed Hossain defies the dictum and continues his journey to spread love, humanity and the community’s yearning for the lost homeland. In this land of absurdity and morose, he bits his heart audible, speaks in his own voice of descent. Hossain, despite external resistance and his own frustrations makes a dent in people’s mind with revering hopes through . As his music is becoming popular, he participates in concerts beyond the camp to spread soulful stories of stateless Rohingyas craving for home. He is among one, of the millions who feels uncertainty about their life and future.
This is the story of Hossain’s Exiled life as well as his Mandolin.
“I Want You To Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir” with Esther & Jonathan Safran Foer (2020)
When Esther Safran Foer’s mother casually mentioned an astonishing revelation—that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust—she resolved to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she traveled to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she found reshaped her identity and gave her the opportunity to finally mourn.
The book is available for purchase at https://amzn.to/2WKalVi
All DAY ALL NIGHT (2020)
As soft-spoken Jahkor Abraham Lincoln (Ashton Sanders) struggles to keep his dream of rapping alive amidst a gang war in Oakland, his ill-fated life and real-world responsibilities drive him further and further across the line of right and wrong with tragic consequences. Landing in prison beside his father, J.D. (Jeffrey Wright) whom he never wanted to be like, Jahkor embarks on an unlikely journey of self-discovery, exploring the events that unite them, in hopes of helping his newborn son break a cycle that feels unavoidable. A powerful film from Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole, ALL DAY AND A NIGHT co-stars Isaiah John, Kelly Jenrette, Shakira Ja’Nai Paye, Regina Taylor, Christopher Meyer and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.Written by Netflix
Briefing “Fighting Stigma, Xenophobia, Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination related to COVID19” (2020)
Supporting the Secretary-General’s call, the United Nations Department of Global Communications brought together a diverse panel of experts to discuss the actions civil society can take to counter the rise of racism and hate speech due to COVID-19, and to build solidarity and compassion in the fight against the virus of racism. It was fitting that the online briefing marked the International Day of Living Together in Peace.Gather Documentary (2020)
Gather celebrates the fruits of the indigenous food sovereignty movement, profiling innovative changemakers in Native American tribes across North America reclaiming their identities after centuries of physical and cultural genocide. On the Apache reservation, a chef embarks on a ambitious project to reclaim his tribe’s ancient ingredients; in South Dakota, a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch, is using science to prove her tribe’s native wisdom about environmental sustainability; and in Northern California, a group of young men from the Yurok tribe is struggling to rehabilitate its rivers to protect the salmon. Gather beautifully shows how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient foodways provides a form of resistance and survival, collectively bringing back health and self-determination to their people.
Reunited Documentary (2020)
This is a story of love across borders, and the compromises a family must make when it is torn apart by circumstances beyond its control. When Rana and Muhkles are forced to flee the war in Syria in a desperate search for stable and secure futures for their family, they are separated from their children. Rana is in Denmark, Mukhles is in Canada, and their young sons Jad and Nidal, ages 11 and 17, are stuck alone in Turkey. Through small everyday moments captured on video calls and home movies, director Mia Jargil paints an intimate and loving portrait of a family in limbo, navigating frustrating twists and turns at the hands of Kafkaesque bureaucracies, combating physical distance to retain familial bonds and connection.
Maxima Documentary (2020)
Maxima tells the incredible story of 2016 environmental Goldman Prize winner Máxima Acuña and her family, who own a small, remote plot in the Peruvian Highlands. The Acuñas rely solely on the environment for their livelihood, but their land sits directly in the path of a multi-billion-dollar project run by one of the world’s largest gold-mining corporations. Faced with intimidation, violence, and criminal prosecution, we follow Máxima’s tireless fight for justice, taking her from the Peruvian Supreme Court to the doors of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. Standing ever mighty, Máxima sings of her love of the land in the face of widespread oppression of indigenous people, and relentless attempts to destroy environmental resources that the world relies on.
Belly of the Beast Documentary (2020)
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes – from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations – primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
Down A Dark Stairwell Documentary (2020)
When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed black man in an unlit stairwell of a New York City housing project on November 20, 2014, communities across the city erupt with demands for legal accountability. When he becomes the first New York Police Department officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes much more complicated. One of the largest Asian-American protests in history challenges an uneven legal system, while the African-American community is forced to defend its rights again after a series of police killings. Cries for justice amid systemic inequities finds disparate notions of fairness called into question.
Capital in the 21st Century (2020)
Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty (which sold over three million copies worldwide and landed Piketty on Time’s list of most influential people), this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world’s most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future.
The Nuns, The Priests, And the Bombs (2020)
Nuclear disarmament activists, including Catholic nuns and priests, challenge the security of America’s nuclear weapons when they break into two top-secret facilities, including the “Fort Knox” of uranium. Are they criminals or prophets sending a wake-up call to the world?
Stella, A Fashion Designer, A Bridge Builder (2020)
Roman by way of an Italian father with a Haitian mother.
I represent an intersecting point between two seemingly opposite cultures.
It is a cultural distillate, and a cross-border fertilization project, that I narrate through fashion, which I understand to be a tool and not solely an aesthetic landing point.
Fashion it is a powerful international megaphone that allows beauty to make a pathway in the viewer, a pathway that, for me, transforms into a channel of integrationist contamination.
A collection is more than the sum of its garments; clothes can speak louder and in a more incisive manner than many words, somehow managing to ignite cultural fabric.
Métissage is the gateway to social development.
The meeting of cultures, and the relative inclusiveness, is an irreversible choice to this very day. The point at which we could decide whether or not to deal with others different from us has already passed; the others are already part of us.
I am an example.
And I think it is clear I am irreversible https://www.stellajean.it
In Process: Daniel Goldstein on Unknown Soldier (2020)
Unorthodox | Official Trailer | Netflix (2020)
These Century-Old Photos Of Alberta’s Native Americans Offer A Haunting Glimpse Into The Past (2020)
Jungian psychotherapist Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone (2020)
According to author and Jungian psychotherapist Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, our ancestors pass on their long-held secrets and the residue of extremely difficult lives…
… and their trauma lands in us as a cellular transmission of their pain.
The good news is, there’s so much healing work we can do to release their suffering — and, in doing so, release our own so we can pass along a more liberated legacy to the next generation.
In this short video below, Tirzah describes the phenomenon of intergenerational trauma… and how you can begin to heal it.
Watch this 4-minute video to discover more: From Wounds to Wisdom with Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Democracy and Education in the Age of Renascent Nationalism (2020)
Fighting Hate From Home: How Extremists are Exploiting Coronavirus to Advance Their Agendas (2020)
Conversations | Avec Anna Cabana | Partie 1 | 15/01/2020
Atlanta’s Missing And Murdered: The Lost Children (2020)
The Windermere Children (2020)
APA TOWN HALL (2020)
2020 APA President Dr. Sandy Shullman, President-elect Dr. Jennifer Kelly, past-President Dr. Rosie Phillips Davis, and CEO Dr. Arthur Evans lead a town hall for the APA membership to have a conversation about the “racism pandemic” that is devastating the nation. Recent high-profile violent events targeting black individuals, particularly men, have illustrated the complex constellation of issues at hand (e.g., implicit bias, trauma, structural barriers to change, etc.) and the roles that psychology needs to play in them.
#hashtag (Hashtag That – Say Their Name) feat. Karla Mosley (2020)
#hashtag (Hashtag That – Say Their Name) featuring Karla Mosley. Words by Brian Dykstra – Music by Terry Delsing w/Jamieson Trotter. A song from the new musical CrazyMakeCrazy — a litany of reasons for where America now finds itself. #blacklivesmatter #saytheirname #icantbreathe #crazymakecrazy
Live Zoom Discussion about My Name Is Sara (2020)
Moderated by Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Stephen D. Smith with special guests Zuzanna Surowy, Lead Actress (starring as Sara); Steven Oritt, Director/Producer; David Himmelstein, Screenwriter; Mickey Shapiro, Executive Producer and USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors Executive Committee Member; and Andy Intrater, Executive Producer and USC Shoah Foundation Board of Councilors Executive Committee Member
2020WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (LIVE)
Music
Sounds of Survival and Regeneration: A microstoria of the Holocaust, 1940–1945
Kantigas de Mi Chikés (Songs of my Childhood)
Featuring Bonita Nahoum Jaros and John Bilezikjian in a double CD or double Cassette collection of Ladino songs of the Jews from Spain over 500 years ago. Includes a 32 page booklet.
Kantigas de Mi Chikes (Songs of my childhood) A historical collection of songs from the Spanish Jews who sing, write and speak Ladino. Performed by Bonita Nahoum Jaros and accompanied by John Bilezikjian. In 1492, King Ferdinand ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Spain. They assimilated into Hebrew communities throughout the Middle East and Europe.
Sri Lanka: Invisible Children of War Music Video (2008)
Kelly Fraser, originally from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly has performed countless concerts across Canada (especially the Arctic), and she is extremely well-known in Nunavut and Nunavik. Her northern concerts attract large crowds, and on social media she has 250,000+ views on YouTube, as well as an impressive 9,500+ followers on various platforms, including SoundCloud.
Like many other Inuit, Kelly has been through many personal struggles, ranging from substance abuse, the loss of her father and others to suicide, to name only a few. Kelly uses her pain as inspiration to make art that can positively impact other native youths. She seeks to spread her messages of joy, healing, and cultural pride through a blend of traditional Inuit music and modern production.
https://www.kellyfrasermusic.com/music
Navajo pianist and composer Connor Chee is known for combining his classical piano training with his Native American heritage. Chee made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 after winning a gold medal in the World Piano Competition. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Chee’s solo piano music is inspired by traditional Navajo chants and songs.
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Margaret Jeanette Allison Majors was born on March 3, 1913, in Chicago, Illinois. Her father, Monroe Majors, was a physician, lecturer, and author who also was politically active. Her mother, Estella Bonds, was a trained musician who taught piano and served as church choral director and organist.
Dawn Avery World Music artist creates a contemporary soundscape from spiritual, pop and classical elements. Her calmly passionate vocals and soaring cello lines reflect a deep devotion rooted in her Native American heritage and Sufi experience. Avery looks for opportunities to make a positive difference through music, drawing you into another realm of beauty.
BALLARD, LOUIS WAYNE (1931–2007).
Of Cherokee-Quapaw descent, American Indian composer and educator Louis W. Ballard was born on the Quapaw Reservation near Quapaw, Oklahoma, on July 8, 1931. Ballard’s Quapaw name is Honganozhe, or “Stands with Eagles.” As a student he learned to play piano. He entered the University of Oklahoma and studied at the University of Tulsa, receiving bachelor’s degrees in music education and fine arts and a master’s degree in music. During an extended academic career he served as director of music and performing arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe from its founding in 1962 to 1970. The Bureau of Indian Affairs selected him in 1970 as director of music curricula for its nationwide school system.
Born in 1966, Odawa composer Barbara Croall (Manitoulin Island, Kineu Dodem) is active internationally, with works performed throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, across Europe, and the Far East. At the age of five she was playing the pipigwan (Native flute) and the drum dewe’igan. Apart from playing, performing and composing on traditional Native flutes and singing in traditional ceremonies, Barbara is also trained classically. She obtained the Associate degree (ARCT) in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). After earning the Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Toronto and receiving the Glenn Gould Award in Composition (1989), she continued her studies in Europe. She obtained diplomas from the Centre Acanthes in France and the Musikhochschule in Munich, Germany. Among her distinguished European mentors were Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Saxton, and Helmut Lachenmann.
American composer and poet Talib Rasul Hakim (1940 -1988). Hailed as “a composer of great originality,” possessing a “unique ability to evoke philosophic contemplation from the attentive listener,” [i] Talib Rasul Hakim considered the creative process to be a “religious act” where technique and craftsmanship serve as vehicles for expression of one’s spirituality.
A Dine composer of chamber music, experimental sound, Native American flute, and metal music. Not only is Michael Begay an accomplished guitarist and bassist, but he also plays piano, and various instruments both Native American and orchestral. Michael is both a performer and educator; he has been a composition instructor in residency for the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composers Apprentice Project (NACAP) for over eight years, and just finished his second residency with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Academy. Both programs help educate Native American high school students, in the art of music composition, followed by a world premiere of created works. Michael Begay’s musical style ranges between both aggressive, and sounds pleasing to the ear, he is both a seeker of tone and technique, and is always exploring musical limits.
Arthur Cunningham was born in Piermont, N.Y. in 1928. He was an eclectic composer trained from childhood in both jazz and classical music. His early studies were at the Metropolitan Music School in New York City. While there, he studied classical composition with the school’s director, Wallingford Riegger and jazz piano with Teddy Wilson and John Mehegan.