Monk With a Camera
Docs in Focus: All Films • 1h 30m
Directed by Guido Santi & Tina Mascara • 2014 • France
The tale of Nicholas Vreeland’s transformation from Manhattanite to devout Buddhist.
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Of Fathers and Sons
Talal Derki • 2017 • Germany-Syria • A father trains his sons to join the global jihad.
Aged twelve and thirteen respectively, Ayman and Osama live with their father in Idlb province, Syria. Their father, an avowed al-Nusra fighter, is training them to join the global jihad. Feigning fundamenta...
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Putin's Kiss
Lise Birk Pedersen • Denmark, U.S. • 2011
Before Nashi, teenage Masha had a pretty average middle-class life in Russia. At 16 she joined the democratic, anti-fascist and anti-oligarch-capitalist political youth movement, working her way up to leadership roles and eventually becoming the host o...
