Icarus Films: Tinghir-Jerusalem
Directed by Kamal Hachkar 86 minutes / ColorEnglish subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2011 In TINGHIR-JERUSALEM, filmmaker and historian Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished – and confronts fundamental questions of his own identity in the process. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France,
Icarus Films: Tierralismo
Directed by Alejandro Ramirez Anderson 49 minutes / ColorSpanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 “At this moment I’m no longer a doctor. Right now I consider myself a farmer like everyone else.” On the outskirts of Havana, sandwiched between highways and public housing, a revolution is taking place. Here, in
Icarus Films: Rare
Directed by Maren Grainger-Monsen, M.D. and Nicole Newnham 56 minutes / ColorRelease: 2014Copyright: 2012 RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter’s rare genetic disease. When Donna Appell learned that her infant daughter Ashley had an extremely rare genetic disease that
Icarus Films: The Questioning
Directed by Zhu Rikun 21 minutes / ColorEnglish subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 “Early in the morning on July 24, 2012, after meeting some friends in Hongkong, I drove a car of my brother back to Shenzhen and got Guo Feixiong and three other friends who take part in human rights protection
Icarus Films: Mothers
Directed by XU Huijing 68 minutes / ColorMandarin / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 Mothers is a gripping cinema verite documentary that shows how China’s one-child policy plays out in the daily lives of women in a northern Chinese village. There are not a lot of job prospects in Ma, a
Icarus Films: Hamou-Beya, Sand Fishers
Directed by Andrey Samoute Diarra 72 minutes / ColorEnglish subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2012 The Bozo of Mali are people of the water. For generations, they have lived along the banks of the Niger river, fishing for their livelihood. But climate change and drought have brought lower water levels and fewer fish,
Icarus Films: Elena
Directed by Marcelo Martin 43 minutes / ColorSpanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2012 The new Cuban documentary ELENA follows several residents in the “Elena” building, located in Central Havana, over a three-year period. ELENA is one of the first contemporary investigative documentaries made in Cuba about a serious social problem
Icarus Films
Daniel Schmid (1941 – 2006) was born to a family of hotel proprietors on 26th December 1941 in the small Grisons town of Flims, Switzerland. In the sixties, he studied at the Free University Berlin and attended the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. He worked together with Peter
Icarus Films: What’s for Dinner?
Directed by Jian Yi 29 minutes / ColorEnglish subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 Meat is now central to billions of people’s daily meals. The environmental, climate, public health, ethical, and human impacts are enormous and remain largely undocumented. WHAT’S FOR DINNER? explores this terrain in fast-globalizing China through the eyes of a
Icarus Films: Tosca’s Kiss
Directed by Daniel Schmid 87 minutes / ColorItalian / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 1984 Meet the inhabitants of the “Casa di Riposa” in Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca’s Kiss, which has developed an underground
