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During the Full Moon Festival at Kataragama, participants celebrate the god Skanda and goddess Valli through color, dance and acts of piety.
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During the Full Moon Festival at Kataragama, participants celebrate the god Skanda and goddess Valli through color, dance and acts of piety.
This wonderful color film "King of Coney Island" is part of the "If Things Could Talk" series of films produced by Roy Creveling. It is written and narrated from the point of view of Coney Island, New York’s landmark Fer
Between 1897 and 1938, immigration changed the face of America. More than 100 million citizens in the United States can trace their ancestry to an immigrant who landed at New York’s Ellis Island. Ellis Island is more tha
After losing his entire life's work in a fire, photographer Mark McInnis assembles a team of surfers and sets out on a grueling mission to track down undiscovered waves on the most unlikely of islands, located in the vio
A participatory and reflexive ethnographic film exploring the meaning of love among a Sunni Muslim community in the Iranian village on Qeshm Island.
Island is the second iteration of an exploratory journey through an island off the coast of Boston MA previously inhabited by prisoners of war. It is a portrait of a place conceived through Super 8mm film and the impress
Postcards from the Desert Island documents a 3-week workshop with students from the École Vitruve, an experimental, self-run elementary school in Paris. Inspired in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, the artist a
During spring, cods come to lay their eggs on rocky banks off the coast of Iceland
Considered the first creative documentary in Greek cinematic history, this short homage shot by Roviros Manthoulis as his debut film on the island of Lefkada in 1958, commissioned by the Hellenic Press Office, is nothing
A promotional film made by the Catholic mission, about the populations on the islands of Bali, Flores, and Timor in the Dutch East Indies, and also about the activities of the mission in the fields of medical care and ed
Nelson Mandela and his fellow ex-prisoners recall their incarceration on South Africa's Robben Island. For three decades, the island housed not only political prisoners but convicts, lepers and the mentally ill. Yet amid
Reggae music (tropical island style) and extreme sports collide in this high-energy tour that'll take you front and center to the heart of the reggae scene. Live performances, interviews and videos feature some of the bi
A haunting document of what was once the worlds most famous amusement park beach resort. –Naked Eye Cinema
A dark and enigmatic ritual in which a solitary figure moves through a desert burial ground. The objects left behind speak their own silent language.
The subject of the film is a man made island two miles from the shore on the east coast of England. Built in the 1970s the Outer Trial Bank is an experimental island, the purpose of which was to see if it were possible t
A documentary film, dedicated to the activities of spiritual Islamic organizations in the republics of the Soviet Union.