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African Exodus
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of f...
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of finding a safe haven until they can return home.
Paradoxically, they are considered “infiltrators” in a country that was founded by...
Since 2006, 60,000 non-Jewish Africans, primarily from Sudan and Eritrea, have fled the wars and dictatorships of their home countries and made their way through Egypt and the Sinai desert into Israel, the Jewish homeland. These Africans, mostly refugees and asylum seekers, have risked their lives in the hope of finding a safe haven until they can return home.
Paradoxically, they are considered “infiltrators” in a country that was founded by and for refugees – Jewish refugees – but is unprepared and seemingly unwilling to handle this wave of Africans. While Israel has a very clear policy for absorbing Jews and is a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it has struggled to deal with its newest migrant community. Recognizing that it cannot send the Africans back to their home countries, the government of Israel keeps them in limbo, not allowing them to work legally. With the numbers of homeless, jobless Africans on the rise, tensions are growing in the poor neighborhoods where they’ve settled.
The African migrants have become a major political issue for Israel, with anti-migrant laws and politicians threaten to expel and imprison innocent men, women and children. While the State gropes for an adequate solution to this looming humanitarian crisis, Israel’s civil society has stepped into the breach and is invoking Jewish and human values to help the Africans most in need. Exodus, a documentary film, chronicles this issue and sheds light on the largely hidden world of Israel’s African refugees.
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All Power to The People!
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times....
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which pr...
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American, and women's power movements which followed.
The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment, and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism, it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism.
Broadcast in 19 countries abroad and winner of 9 awards, the film is an important look at the turmoils of the 60's and its leading players.
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Allah Tantou
The Area
Cimarrón Spirit
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraci...
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraciones y creencias de los cimarrones, que están llenos de la magia, la fantasía y la religiosidad popular.
Na República Dominicana, os escra...
En la República Dominicana, los esclavos africanos que escaparon de los señores españoles se fueran vivir con los nativos Taína o construiran sus propias comunidades en las tierras distantes de la Hispaniola, eran conocidos como "cimarrones". Nuestro documental examina el sincretismo cultural de las celebraciones y creencias de los cimarrones, que están llenos de la magia, la fantasía y la religiosidad popular.
Na República Dominicana, os escravos africanos que fugiam dos senhores espanhóis para viver com nativos Taínos ou criar suas próprias comunidades nas remotas fronterias das terras de Hispaniola, eram conhecidos como “cimarrones” , que significa “maroons”. Nosso documentário examina o sincretismo cultural das celebrações e crençås dos cimarrons, que são repletas de mágica, fantasia e religiosidade popular.
In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island’s Taíno Indians or on their own in remote Hispaniola. These people who were known as “cimarrones,”meaning “maroons,” created their own independent communities that have survived for centuries. These resilient and resourceful “outlaws” have long developed their own celebrations. This documentary examines cimarrón cultural celebrations and beliefs, in an effort to highlight the full cultural diversity of the Dominican Republic.
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The Freedom Train
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
Julian Bond
Melvin and Jean: An American Story
