Icarus Films: Sex, Lies and Tabloids!
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Peretie 52 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2016Copyright: 2015 They’re lurid, obnoxious, disdainful and explicit. And we love them—and love to hate them. SEX, LIES AND TABLOIDS! charts the rise and fall of tabloid papers, including the New York Post, The Sun, and notorious supermarket tabloids like the
Icarus Films: Liberation: The User’s Guide
Directed by Alexander Kuznetsov 80 minutes / ColorRussian / English subtitlesRelease: 2016Copyright: 2016 Residents at the Tinskoi Psychoneurological Institute in Siberia have modest dreams: to find love and have children-to live independently and pay their own bills. But many may never attain even these simple goals. LIBERATION: THE USER’S GUIDE
Icarus Films: The Good Breast
Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein 94 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2016Copyright: 2016 THE GOOD BREAST explores breast cancer as ritual, presenting today’s rise of the mastectomy in the U.S. as a modern form of breast sacrifice. The no-nonsense veteran breast cancer surgeon Dr. Lauren Schnaper believes that fear and ignorance are
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Writer and director Pema Tseden (1969-2023) was born in Amdo, in the Tibetan region of Qinghai Province. He is widely recognized as the leading filmmaker of a newly emerging Tibetan cinema and the first director in China to film his movies entirely in the Tibetan language. Tseden has published more
Icarus Films: Almayer’s Folly
Somewhere in Southeast Asia, in a little lost village on a wide and turbulent river, a European man clings to his pipe dreams out of love for his daughter. A story of passion, loss and madness. Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. “One of the year’s most hypnotic and
Icarus Films: Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure
Directed by Bruno Oliviero 55 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 Philosopher, Marxist, professor, murderer. More than a quarter century after his death, Louis Althusser, one of the most influential leftist thinkers of the 20th century, remains an enigmatic figure: a man whose work rejuvenated Marxist theory
Icarus Films: National Diploma
Directed by Dieudo Hamadi 92 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2014 Joel loads a stack of boxes onto a hand truck and weaves his way through a crowded outdoor market in Kisangani, one of the largest cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An orphan who lives
Icarus Films: The Apology
Directed by Tiffany Hsiung 104 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2016Copyright: 2016 Winner of a Peabody award, a duPont-Columbia award, and named Best Documentary at the Busan International Film Festival, THE APOLOGY follows the personal journeys of three former “comfort women” who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped
Icarus Films: The Destruction of Memory
Directed by Tim Slade 85 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The bombing of Sarajevo’s National Library and the burning of its ancient books. The looting of the Iraqi National Museum and destruction of its priceless historical objects. The beheading of Kahled al-Asaad, long-time lead archaeologist for the UNESCO World
Icarus Films: Mali Blues
Directed by Lutz Gregor 93 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The West African country of Mali is a birthplace of the blues, a musical tradition later carried by the transatlantic slave trade to America’s cotton fields. Yet today, the music and musicians of Mali are in
