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As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of...

The story of Gemma, a teenage troublemaker, growing up in a world of pigeons and violence. From childhood to motherhood, her life unfolds as innocent games turn towards serious crime.

25 year old Eva has turned her life into a public spectacle in this boundary pushing documentary about sex, intimacy, and the internet.

Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Forty years have passed since the monarchy of the Shah of Iran was toppled and the Islamic Republic declared. In the 1980's Ayatollah Khomeini, the so-called religious leader, had tens of thousands of political opponents arrested, persecuted and murdered. Among them the filmmaker's parents who, after...

In the words of David Bowie: "it makes my heart glad just to be in the same room with him". Mike Garson, world-class composer and improviser, performs, composes and teaches while offering guidance to musicians at all levels of skill. Brimming with music and Mike's zest for life, this captivating portrait inspires and illuminates due to Mike's massive experience in the world of jazz, classical and contemporary music.

In the words of David Bowie: "it makes my heart glad just to be in the same room with him". Mike Garson, world-class composer and improviser, performs, composes and teaches while offering guidance to musicians at all levels of skill. Brimming with music and Mike's zest for life, this captivating portrait inspires and illuminates due to Mike's massive experience in the world of jazz, classical and contemporary music.

Two weeks before graduation, Lucy, a devout Catholic schoolgirl, learns her best friend just had an abortion. This rattles her world, and in order to balance her internal sense of moral injustice, Lucy dangerously plots to kill the doctor who performed her best friend's procedure. She becomes entangled in romantic deception, academic trouble, and police suspicion as she struggles to execute her plan.

Businessman Horace Jones is deep in debt. While his family thinks he is in Hong Kong on a business deal, he is covertly working a quiet nightshift in a gas service station to make ends meet. When a suspicious looking character dies in the station's toilet clutching a wad of cash, Horace is suddenly offered a tempting opportunity to dispose of the evidence and solve his own financial problems. When gangster Darren arrives at the station store, the screws begin to tighten on Horace's desperate...

Stories of work and play, of love and loss... and bread. Bread has been at the center of human life and creativity for at least the last ten thousand years - it is in our bones and a witness to history. This essay documentary brings bread to the front of the line and explores its relation to politics, poetry and pleasure. The loaf of bread is the vehicle through which we explore stories of sex and death, immigration and refugees, social justice and the counter-culture, and of art, work and...

The controversial story of Ken Feinberg; the lawyer in charge of allocating compensation for families and workers who were injured or lost their lives in 9/11.

As cannabis use continues to rise, a number of countries around the world have taken a radical course of action: turn their backs on fifty years of repressive, costly, and ineffective drug policy and instead get into the drug dealing business. How does this massive shift impact dealers, cartels, government, and drug users?

Chocolate Road is a discovery of where chocolate comes from. Three renowned chocolatiers - Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis-Holm - take us through the process of craft chocolate-making, starting from the plantations and all the way to the final chocolate piece. On their journey, each of them finds how important it is to know the roots of their prime material - the cacao bean, and the social impact of the people involved in the chocolate production chain.