Icarus Films Popular Movie

A film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition and its impact on the Nordic building-tradition. Winding its way...

genus: Documentary

cast: Tadao Ando

Haile Gerima and Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their current situations and what needs to be done for a...

genus: Documentary

cast: Haile Gerima

Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of...

genus: Documentary

cast: Althea Gibson

January 22, 1932. An unprecedented peasant uprising erupts in western El Salvador, as a group of Latino and indigenous peasants cut army supply...

genus: Documentary

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The night of a lonely photographer with a Polaroid camera, looking for human connections in the alienating Amsterdam nightlife, ends with an...

genus: Drama

cast: Rajiv Girwar

The notion of a Cuban civil society is often misrepresented in the U.S. mainstream media. According to most sources, Cuban civil society is limited...

genus: Documentary

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Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an...

genus: Documentary

cast: Jacobo Árbenz

Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian...

genus: Documentary

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Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years...

genus: Documentary

cast: Svetlana Alliluyeva

Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist...

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cast: Simone de Beauvoir

Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

genus: Documentary

cast: Bobby Clampett

RARE follows an extraordinary mother in a race against time to find a treatment for her daughter's rare genetic disease. When Donna Appell learned...

genus: Documentary

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Recounts the founding of Haiti through the eyes of two captured African tribespeople, Sili and Simba. Starting with their capture in Africa, the...

genus: Animation

cast: Ali Maurice Andre

"SHIGERU BAN features extensive interviews with this innovative young architect (b. 1957), who explains the practical, philosophical and esthetic...

genus: Documentary

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A documentary of a young couple and their two children living in a squatter settlement in the Philippine capital, Manila. Rather than just a report...

genus: Documentary

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