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
Icarus Films: Bitter Money
Directed by Wang Bing 152 minutes / ColorMandarin / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 The city of Huzhou, where the film is shot, is home to 18,000 clothing factories. They are staffed by about 300,000 workers, many of them migrants from rural areas in the surrounding provinces. BITTER MONEY follows a
Icarus Films: Bones of Contention
Directed by Andrea Weiss 75 minutes / ColorEnglish; Spanish / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2017 BONES OF CONTENTION is the first nonfiction feature film to explore the theme of historical memory in Spain, focusing on the repression of lesbians and gays under Franquismo and Spain’s most famous poet, Federico Garcia
Icarus Films: We the Workers
Directed by Wen Hai 174 minutes / ColorEnglish; Mandarin / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2017 China’s economic miracle has been built on cheap labor. And now, that labor is starting to fight back. Filmed in the southeastern part of the country, WE THE WORKERS is a vérité documentary that closely follows
Icarus Films: December Days
Directed by Carla Valdes Leon 45 minutes / ColorEnglish; Spanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 Delfin, a shirtless old man in a New York Yankees cap, proudly fingers the medals on the military uniform hanging on the wall of his small home in the Sierra Maestra mountains of Cuba. The
Icarus Films: Free Lunch Society
Directed by Christian Tod 92 minutes / ColorEnglish / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2017Copyright: 2017 What would you do if your income was taken care of? Just a few years ago, an unconditional basic income was considered a pipe dream. Today, this utopia is more imaginable than ever before—intense discussions are
Icarus Films: Miss Kiet’s Children
Directed by Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster 113 minutes / ColorEnglish; Dutch / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2016 Kiet Engels is the kind of teacher one wishes every schoolchild could have. She is strict but never harsh. She is loving but never soft. Her patience in endless. Many of Miss Kiet’s
Icarus Films: Mama Colonel
Directed by Dieudo Hamadi 72 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2017Copyright: 2017 Colonel Honorine Manyole, commonly known as “Mama Colonel,” works for the Congolese police force and heads the unit for the protection of minors and the fight against sexual violence. Having worked for 15 years in Bukavu,
