Roller Roots
Roller Roots follows Tiana, an Afro-Chicana student, through her life and finding community at the roller rink to her fathers' dismay.
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Roller Roots follows Tiana, an Afro-Chicana student, through her life and finding community at the roller rink to her fathers' dismay.
Larissa, a Black trans woman, faces the challenges of discrimination in the job market as she confronts the prejudice of recruiter Rubens. With courage and dignity, she finds strength in the care of her aunt Salete, the
Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. C
A portrait of the Namibian artist Hage Mukwendje, who philosophizes about identity, art, society and the opportunities of creative work.
I travelled across Mauritania to find a tree that I saw from my window in Belgium. It wasn't a mythical tree, but rather one that could be anywhere. On my way, I met men and women who shared their perception of this ques
Filmed on a return visit to the Asháninka in the tropical forest of eastern Peru. Moving in close to people who still live with the land, cook over fires and raise their children in the forest. Earth, river, animals, we
The story follows a friendly tree spirit as it makes its escape from the woodcutters.
Roots Time is the story of "Jah Bull" and "Baboo", two Rastafarians that sell LP records in an old colorful car field for the villages within Jamaica. By chance "Farmer Roots," his favorite radio host makes them finger i
A meditative ethnographic essay on the nature of ecological succession.
A robot rambles about frenetically, receiving countless electronic messages through his antenna every second. Despite his fatigue and stress, he never slows down. The only thing that might bring his frantic journey to an
Belial grows a carnivorous plant so she can take revenge on humans.
After Gonzalo gets a mysterious call from an unknown person, he must take a long journey with his best friend, Madhur, to find the “roots” of his peculiar genetics.
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a governm
Ιn Eleochori, Messinia, the last and elderly residents tell us how they rebuilt it after it was destroyed in the great earthquake of ’86 In the mountains through which modern Greece began we have the opportunity to see
With true stories set against the backdrop of a popular bucolic New Jersey suburb is the intriguing paranormal mystery of an old farm and it's former inhabitants, all surrounding a famed tree. This story has been told in
There are short stories about people who lived all their lives in the small town of Ivanitsa, having taken root there, and who carried the traditions of their people through the prism of time.
A young girl reflects on her mother’s experience immigrating to the US.
Roots explores themes of home, displacement and cultural identity through the process of interweaving personal memory and animation. The film coalesces fragments of different conversations I’ve recorded with my mother as
A filmmaker embarks on a journey to his ancestral homeland, seeking to reconcile his present reality with the depths of his ancestral past.
TANGLED ROOTS follows Kentucky State Representative Attica Scott as she fights to pass a bill that would dismantle a system of discrimination against black people who are penalized for something seemingly innocuous — the