Passion River Films.
81) Decade of fire
Language
English
Description
Bronx-born Vivian Vazquez exposes the truth about how her neighborhood was destroyed by fires and neglect in the 1970s and reveals how her maligned community chose to resist, remain, and rebuild.
82) Our time machine
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer's disease, he creates 'Papa's Time Machine,' a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Language
English
Description
Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice.
85) Gift
Language
English
Description
It is a tribute to something that can't be measured or counted, bought, or sold. Exploring the parallels between artists' work and a gift economy, it's a reflection on the creative process and the beauty and challenges of fearlessly giving and receiving.
87) The right girls
Language
Español
Description
The story of three transgender women who joined the migrant caravan in hopes of reaching and crossing the US border.
89) Nazi creatures
Language
English
Description
Hitler, Goring, Himmler, the three architects of the Final Solution. These three men shared another obsession: a fascination with the animal world. In the last days of the Nazi regime, Hitler risked his life every day, leaving the safety of the bunker to walk his beloved dog, Blondi. But the Nazis' interest in creatures went beyond love of their pets or the animal welfare laws they introduced. The documentary investigates the secret programs to control...
90) The wolf hour
Language
English
Description
Set in the Bronx during the Summer of Sam, June becomes unraveled when an unseen tormentor begins harassing her in this taut Hitchcockian thriller.
91) Big Sonia
Language
English
Description
In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski, great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor, runs the tailor shop she's owned for more than 30 years. But when she's served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, the film also also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait...
Language
English
Description
The diabetes community has been filled with deception for the past 50 years. The typical guidelines for managing diabetes have ultimately caused suffering for millions of people with the disease. Follow a group of families and doctors as they present a solution to managing diabetes that could spare many patients from devastating complications in this seminal documentary about diabetes.
93) Border
Language
English
Description
An honest and startling portrait of our out-of-control U.S. border with Mexico. With unforgettable images of illegal crossings, frightened border ranchers, dead and maimed immigrants, outnumbered law enforcement officers and scary statistics.
Language
English
Description
This documentary reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America's most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration. A radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science. Like no other film before it, this documentary brings to light how false scientific claims have rolled back long...
95) Wake up on Mars
Language
English
Description
A Roma boy living in Sweden dreams of building a spaceship to escape the reality of his family's pending asylum request, and the mysterious coma-like illness that has befallen his siblings.
96) Inherent good
Language
English
Description
As an urgent response to swelling economic anxiety and wealth inequality in America, comedian Trae Crowder takes people on a journey to the South to explore a transformative idea of giving free cash to every citizen, no strings attached.
Language
English
Description
Catch a ride to nanospace with Oxy and her crew to boldly go where only atoms have gone before. Molecularium, the most fantastic ship in the universe, fly through the crystalline structure of a snowflake, blast through the far reaches of space, escape the tangled polymers of chewing gum and discover the molecular machinery of a living cell.
98) I am human
Language
English
Description
By 2029, scientists predict that approximately one million people will have implantable technology in their brains. This film follows the inspiring journeys of three early pioneers, Bill, Anne, and Stephen. As these unlikely cyborgs grapple with the realities of their implantable brain technology, scientists face pressing technical and ethical quandaries: will the same technology that heals the sick soon lead to super human abilities, telepathic communication,...
Language
Deutsch
Description
Twenty six year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist's son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx's new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police's repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its...
100) Bloodthirsty
Language
English
Description
Grey, an indie pop singer whose first album was a smash hit, gets an invitation to work with notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels at his remote studio in the woods. Together, with her girlfriend Charlie, they arrive at his mansion, and the work begins. But as her work with the emotionally demanding Vaughn deepens, the vegan singer begins to hunger for raw meat. As her appetite changes, her body starts to transform, and she begins to find out who...