Voices Restored - Costa Rica
Voices Restored is an award winning documentary about a project to restore the voices taken by cancer in Costa Rica. The success of this project led to similar efforts in Peru and the Philippines.
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Voices Restored is an award winning documentary about a project to restore the voices taken by cancer in Costa Rica. The success of this project led to similar efforts in Peru and the Philippines.
"Voices from the Barrens: Native People, Blueberries and Sovereignty," documents the wild blueberry harvest of the Wabanaki People from the USA and Canada. The film focuses on the Passamaquoddy tribe's challenge to balan
Distorted visions of anonymous figures traveling across empty landscapes are used as a metaphor for metaphysical journey's made across landscapes of the mind.
The fight for democracy in Hong Kong has long been a battle of systems, as well as a brutal game of economic dependencies. With a collage of found footage, interviews with experts and sketches of the thoughts of young ac
Captures the history of Twinsburg Heights, a predominantly black suburban enclave surrounded by the predominantly white city of Twinsburg. This documentary was is filmed through the eyes of youth as they research and int
Elizabeth Bishop’s poems were always admired for the purity and precision of her descriptions, and now readers have come to see how, even in her early poems, the attention to external detail reveals an internal emotional
Moving into an old house in the rural countryside, videographer Komai converses with its former owner Umemoto, drawing from personal memories to discuss histories, cartographies and the passage of time, reflecting upon t
Following the award-winning TODOS SANTOS CUCHUMATAN and TODOS SANTOS: THE SURVIVORS, MAYAN VOICES: AMERICAN LIVES explores the everyday life of a community of indigenous Mayan indians who fled Guatemala's political viole
In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested, tried, and imprisoned. They are called “Politzek”: political prisoners. Filmed
Voices of El Alto is filmed in a city over 4000 meters above sea level, a tent is set up in a marketplace to collect stories from random by-passers. Film raises a story within a story told by bolivian people.
The documentary '16: Listening to unheard voices' will explore the question of whether 16/17-year-olds should be allowed to vote or not. In the politically balanced and neutral film, we talk to various public figures, in
This short documentary, filmed on location in Ukraine, follows life in villages as residents adapt to a new reality after liberation from Russian occupation.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a team of video journalists went into the streets of New York City. Over the next 24 hours they captured the horror and human drama of the unfolding tragedy.
This one hour documentary exposes the impact of more than seven thousand unconventional gas wells, which have been drilled and fracked over the past seven years, through the testimonies of farmers who have had their soil
"Voices in the Clouds" is an intimate exploration of one man's quest to understand his heritage. At the heart of the film lies the celebration of family and cultural preservation. Through his journey, the film hopes to e
Robert Frost was America’s leading pastoral poet. He demonstrated in his verse that nature is man’s most revealing mirror–and the clearest window into human personality. That conviction led him to explore the darkest for
Three professors explore the history, significance, and ongoing challenges of African American Vernacular English in education and the United States and reflect on its cultural impact and the fight for linguistic accepta
Over the past six years, a team of filmmakers has been following more than a dozen Americans in eight states across the U.S., charting their views about changes in the country and in their own lives. Now, a month before
The voices of the harbor are those of thousands of people that have worked there, and of those who still work there today. Like for all cities on the sea, Trieste's history is deeply interrelated with the history of its
Meet the Istanbul drag artist defying exclusion, claiming strength, identity, and resistance on the city's streets by day.