A Kashmiri poet has said of the Indian occupation of Kashmir, “they make a desolation and call it peace.” Once the epitome of a syncretic, mystical culture, a deep heritage of learning, of arts and craft, the crucible of Buddhism, Hinduism and sufi Islam, full of verdant forests, snow-capped peaks, populated by a guileless, beautiful people, all until the dark cloud of terror enveloped the Kashmir valley overnight. This film is the story of the conflict recounted as personal history, i... more

More than 30 years since the first public acknowledgement of AIDS, a great deal of work still needs to be done to provide people living with HIV with the proper care they deserve and find a cure for the disease. Today, every 9.5 minutes someone is infected with HIV in the United States, paralleled with the pandemic across Sub-Saharan Africa. What was initially thought to be a gay white man’s disease is now a Black disease. While African-Americans represent only 12% of the U.S. population, the... more

"Rhythmic Uprising" is a documentary that shows how vibrant Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism, social exclusion, and poverty in Bahia, Brazil. The film outlines the transformative power of a large movement of community cultural projects that make up the latest chapter in a creative struggle for racial equality that began four centuries ago. Concepts of citizenship considered in this hour-long film include capoeira, candomblé, blocos afros, theater, circus, and quilombos.

Forty people from Israel, the USA, Germany, and Switzerland went on a pilgrimage through Israel and the West Bank. They connected spiritual and political work and tried to heal their "inner war" so that the outer war can heal too.

Take one Muslim advocate for global jihad and put him in a room with one conservative Christian on a mission to evangelize the world's Muslims. Which man will be left standing? A new film from Sundance award-winning director Stephen Marshall, "Holy Wars" touches down in four hotbeds of religious fundamentalism—Pakistan, Lebanon, the U.K., and heartland America—and goes behind the scenes of the 1,400 year old conflict between Islam and Christianity. The film follows a danger-seeking Christia... more

"X-Mission" explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses —legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical—that give meaning to this exceptional space. According to International Law, the Palestinian refugee represents indeed the exception within the exception.

At least two years, twelve hours every day, memorizing over 6000 verses from Koran–that is what small kids have to do in Hifz-Khana. Many parents send their children very willingly to this special department of a madrasa, the Islamic orthodox school. Generally, cameras are strictly forbidden; filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz still managed to enter and observe in these madrasas in Bangladesh. The result is a film that approaches very carefully this unique religious practice, which is contradictory to th... more