http://www.frif.com/subjects/dvd.html New releases on DVD Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:28:50 GMT ListGarden Program 1.02 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.frif.com/new2003/aga.html The stories of three women who took refuge at the Dastak women's shelter in Pakistan, founded to help women fleeing abusive and murderous families. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:26:37 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2004/clot.html Based on the autobiographical series "Life or Theater?" by Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish painter from Berlin, who sought refuge in Nice during World War II. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:25:36 GMT http://www.frif.com/cat97/a-e/children.html Thirty years in the life of a gutsy Sicilian woman who battles poverty, crime, and an abusive husband to keep her family together. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:25:02 GMT http://www.frif.com/sept06/cat97/a-e/chore_wa.html Do you say "I love you" with flowers - or by doing the dishes?! The place of chores in the battle of the sexes. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:24:23 GMT http://www.frif.com/new99/cracks.html A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:23:43 GMT http://www.frif.com/new99/crimehon.html Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, investigates the terrible reality of femicide - the killing of sisters or daughters suspected of losing their virginity, for having refused an arranged marriage or having left a husband. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:23:01 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2002/jam.html A film about the movement called Culture Jamming. Pranksters and subversive artists are causing a bit of brand damage to corporate mindshare... Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:22:08 GMT http://www.frif.com/cat97/a-e/dreaming.html Showing Aboriginal artists at work in their native environments, DREAMINGS explores the meaning and mystical significance behind these evocative works. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:20:18 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2002/must.html This documentary focuses on the lives of three dynamic lesbians sangomas (traditional healers) living in Soweto, South Africa. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:19:08 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2003/fang.html Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes! Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:18:33 GMT http://www.frif.com/new99/ifyouonl.html A Cuban film director's search for an actress to star in his new musical comedy exposes issues of racism and other conflicts in Cuban society. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:28:09 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2000/light.html Using Goethe's Theory of Colors (Zur Farbenlehre) as a point of departure, takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colors. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:16:31 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2003/dur.html A personal portrait of the great French writer Marguerite Duras. Made with home moves, archives, film extracts, readings, and television interviews filmed over many years. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:15:46 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/maf.html 70-year-old Gaetano Merenda and his son (the filmmaker) travel to America for a reunion with relatives whose ancestors came from their small town in southern Italy more than a century ago. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:15:06 GMT http://www.frif.com/cat97/p-s/stories_.html Through a series of remarkable personal accounts, fifteen women reveal their roles in the patriarchal Islamic society of the Gaza Strip where men dictate most aspects of life. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:14:08 GMT http://www.frif.com/cat97/t-z/veiled.html Considers the possible reasons for modern Egyptian women's turn back to tradition. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:12:03 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/blow.html The first major documentary about three decades of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:50:11 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/hats.html Jerusalem can rightfully be called the hat capital of the world, and this colorful and personal trip takes us along the diverse headdresses of the three religions populating the city. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:48:42 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/mali.html Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:47:00 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/rmk.html The astounding and surprisingly humorous story of how an elderly couple faced and survived Hurricane Katrina. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:46:17 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/exc.html A dramatic investigation of the recent history of the Mafia and its integral relationship to postwar Italian politics. Based on the book by Alexander Stille. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:17:35 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/herm.html This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the "dwellers" intimate relationship with the art. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:18:15 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/buf.html Set in the lowlands of southern Vietnam, this powerful coming of age tale is a richly textured and stunningly visual reflection of the rhythms of daily life and culture determined by water. Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:55:10 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/whis.html An inspired and beautifully assured tragic-comedy about Jacobo, a sixty-year-old owner of a small, outdated sock factory in Uruguay. Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:57:47 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/aris.html The rise and fall of the first elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An investigation featuring insiders on all sides of the story. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:13:08 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/soil.html A young Korean couple leaves the city to become farmers. They struggle to survive economically from the land, while trying to balance their political activism and family life. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:12:24 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/compa.html Thirty years after meeting Daniel Barrientos and his family in Lima, Peru, where they eked out survival scavenging in garbage dumps, the filmmaker returns, and re-enters their lives. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:11:35 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/jap.html Explores the origins of Japan's Constitution in the ashes of war, and the significance of its famous peace clause, Article 9, and the debates surrounding it, in the 21st century. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:10:30 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/koch.html A visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in Japanese tradition, and their relationships to modernist Scandinavian design. With two Pritzker Prize winners, Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:09:33 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/nap.html Featuring the paintings of Jacques-Louis David, including "Napoleon's Coronation." Examines how art and propaganda were intertwined throughout Napoleon's career. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:08:43 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/remb.html The phenomena of human memory. A dialogue with one's own history? An incomprehensible flow of individual and collective references that determine our current and future life? Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:08:13 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/to.html A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture? Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:07:30 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2006/try.html A mother returns to her home village Yantang, in China, with her son, to show him where she grew up, and to talk for the first time about the days of the Cultural Revolution. Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:06:53 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/brut.html Exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:18:17 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/anto.html Traces the biography and current relevance of this controversial moral and political philosopher, his work, and his contemporary role as an intellectual leader of the anti-globalization movement. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:17:22 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/aug.html The first documentary about one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:15:29 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/bet.html A case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World, and journey along the cross-Andes route of an oil pipeline in Ecuador. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:12:58 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/brid.html The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:12:28 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/brul.html In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:11:51 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/clar.html Recounts the life and accomplishments of the Jewish, Ukrainian-born union organizer who led the 'Uprising of the 20,000' - the 1909 strike of NYC garment workers. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:11:16 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/dec.html Can multinationals make an ethical profit? This film finds out as it follows Nokia's new "ethical management consultant" on a trip to a supplier factory in China. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:10:06 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/arn.html The two Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by combining traditional knowledge and contemporary scientific expertise. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:09:26 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/faln.html A remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background to the ongoing social conflicts in that country. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:08:39 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/fltl.html Israeli writers, musicians, actors and a Rabbi/philosopher - from varying countries and ethnic backgrounds - discuss the relationship between their mother tongues and Hebrew, for centuries a sacred language but today the language of everyday life in Israel. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:08:04 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/hamb.html Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when African slaves were forbidden to use drums, and so resorted to the body itself as a percussive instrument. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:07:25 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/ist.html During a journey up the Danube River, this film takes up some of the most challenging paths in Martin Heidegger's thought. With the philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:06:37 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/jean.html In this rare interview two of the most influential and controversial writers and thinkers of the 20th century discuss their work, lives, and the role of public intellectuals in modern society. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:05:36 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/sier.html Tracing a year in the life of a Medellin neighborhood ruled by a paramilitary gang, this is a searing exploration of three lives defined by violence. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:04:43 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/made.html Thought-provoking, comprehensive examination of society's current debate about the right to die, from involving legal restrictions, to religious objections, and to medical ethics. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:03:51 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/dub2.html Reunites Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the making of their then controversial but now classic documentary on Ireland in the Sixties. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:02:30 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/men.html How does one buy companies owned by the state of China, support that country's transition to capitalism, and make a fortune at the same time? Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:08:01 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/obj.html In early 2002, a group of Israeli officers and soldiers issued a public statement. Although willing to serve in Israel's defense, they would no longer participate in the "War of the Settlements." Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:01:54 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/regu.html A fascinating introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential architects and a thought-provoking demonstration of architecture's contributions to our urban environments. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:58:47 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/kerb.html Filmmaker Katia Jarjoura joins religious celebrants on the 100-kilometer walk from Baghdad to Kerbala, offering rare insights into the political and religious turmoil of U.S.-occupied Iraq. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:58:13 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/dub.html Provocative, revealing classic portrait of 1960s Ireland: the stultifying educational system, the repressive, politically reactionary clergy and the myopic cultural nationalism. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:57:42 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/sell.html Explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as it promotes not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:56:58 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/shi.html Offers valuable insights into the complex, largely unknown history of this small branch of one of the world's largest faiths, now a politically influential, controversial religious movement. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:55:51 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/shir.html In-depth introduction to Nobel Peace Prize winner in her Tehran office, interwoven with speeches at international conferences and a visit to the children's center she founded. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:55:18 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/song.html Traces the history of Ireland through her music, and Ireland's music through her history. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:54:38 GMT http://www.frif.com/new2005/tou.html Regarded as one of the most influential teachers in American history, Albert Cullum, in an era when Dick, Jane and discipline ruled America's classrooms, allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade classroom. Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:53:45 GMT