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
Icarus Films: Chicago Boys
Directed by Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano 85 minutes / ColorEnglish; Spanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2016Copyright: 2015 After the 1973 coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power, a group of Chilean economists were given the power to turn Chile into a laboratory for the world’s most radical neo-liberal experiments. These
Icarus Films: Welcome to Refugeestan
Directed by Anne Poiret 72 minutes / ColorEnglish; French; Arabic / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 A Burundian man steps off a bus in Tanzania and waits to be processed at a refugee camp. Two of his brothers are dead, and his parents have disappeared. With no idea what lies
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
Icarus Films: The Giant Is Falling
Directed by Rehad Desai and Jabulani Mzozo 77 minutes / ColorEnglish / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The loyalty people have for the party of liberation operates at a deep psychological level. But in recent years, the ANC’s popularity is at an all time low, not least amongst people who
Nativity Plays to Two Berlinale Films
Having a movie at the Berlin Film Festival is widely seen as a major success, a dream come true even. Julia Franz Richter (Rubikon, Peacock, Ghost Trail) first had that experience in 2020 as part of the cast of Christian Petzold’s romantic fantasy drama Undine. This year, the 34-year-old Austrian
The Berlinale Shines a Light on Forgotten German Genre Films of the ’70s
German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors — led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff — who shook the country out of its postwar stupor. “Papa’s Kino ist
Where to Stream Films That Celebrate Black Stories and Illustrate Systemic Injustice
In the midst of the current surge of activism and demands for change regarding police brutality and systemic racism, many streaming platforms have put a spotlight on features and documentaries that both illuminate and celebrate the black experience. Several services have dropped their paywall restrictions for these films, and we
