Icarus Films
Ilan Ziv was born in Israel in 1950 and came to the United States after fighting in the Yom Kippur (The October) War in 1973. Ilan Ziv is a graduate of New York University Film School, and in 1978 he co-produced New York’s first Middle East Film Festival. That same
Icarus Films: Female Directors
Directed by Yang Mingming 43 minutes / ColorEnglish; Mandarin / English subtitlesRelease: 2016Copyright: 2012 Ah-Ming and Yueyue are two out-of-work film school grads living in Beijing who decide to turn the camera on each other and make a film about their lives. On the surface, FEMALE DIRECTORS is the ultimate
Icarus Films: Long Story Short
Now he’s out in public and everyone can see and Long Story Short are included on one DVD. In the moving and immersive film LONG STORY SHORT, over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area in
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
Icarus Films
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
