Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Love Child
Leila, Sahand, and Mani flee Iran. They fear they’ll be caught and they fear for the safety of family they have left behind, who may be targeted because of the couple’s actions.
Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Love Child
With the therapist, Sahand recalls childhood memories of people publicly whipped and stoned for having an extramarital affair. He also shares that when he was a teenager, he participated in a protest and was arrested. Iranian secret police used implied threats of torture, imprisonment, or death to coerce him to become an informant.
Lesson Plan Clip 5 | Love Child
Sahand seeks help from a lawyer to appeal the UNHCR’s denial of his status. It illustrates some of the sometimes absurd bureaucratic hoops that refugees must jump through, like getting proof from Iranian intelligence that Sahand worked with them as a secret informant.
Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Portraits and Dreams
The clip highlights the work of two young photographers in particular: Denise and Russell Akemon, then 4th graders.
Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Portraits and Dreams
Denise’s series of dream photographs are set in a neighboring graveyard and feature her younger twin brothers, one of whom is on a quest to kill his vampire other.
Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Portraits and Dreams
Sue looks through the published collection of portraits and reminisces about the project and how she sees it now in relation to her work as teacher.
Lesson Plan Clip 6 | Portraits and Dreams
As the community portraits are shown, a brief audio recording from young Gary explaining his ideas about community plays.
Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Portraits and Dreams
Johnny describes the dangers of coal mining. We see a series of Johnny’s family portraits and hear him reflect about the challenges of his fatherless childhood, his childhood play, and his current success as a father and heavy equipment operator.
Trailer | Portraits and Dreams
Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.
Trailer | Love Child
With adultery being punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son. Love Child follows the new family on their life-threatening journey to seek asylum in Turkey, and witnesses a mother’s heart breaking fight to keep her family together and secure a future for her son.
Lesson Plan Clip 2 | About Love
Maneesha describes how she carves out time for herself, despite all the distractions of family.
Lesson Plan Clip 1 | About Love
Maneesha is tasked with solving a silly problem and then criticized by her husband.
Lesson Plan Clip 3 | About Love
We see three generations representing different possibilities for women’s lives. Maneesha shares the story she is writing.
Trailer | About Love
Three generations of the Phadke family live together in their home in Mumbai. When the youngest daughter turns the camera towards her family, the personal becomes political as power structures within the family become visible, and eventually unravel. Cruel and comic in equal measure, the film examines the vagaries of affection across generations, tied together by something stranger than love.
Lesson Plan Clip 2 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine and her friend debate the latest rumors of Belgian immigration policy.
Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine begins to recount the harrowing story of “a girl” from Cameroon who went to Lebanon for a promising position as a domestic worker.
Lesson Plan Clip 4 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine sees a commotion outside her salon and learns that the police are raiding the market looking for undocumented immigrants.
Trailer | Chez Jolie Coiffure
In this captivating documentary filmed in a single tiny room, viewers step inside an underground hair salon with its charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian immigrant named Sabine. Here, she and her employees style extensions and glue on lashes while watching soaps, dishing romantic advice, sharing rumors about government programs to legalize migrants, and talking about life back home in Cameroon.
Lesson Plan Clip 3 | Chez Jolie Coiffure
Sabine speaks of own experience with Lebanon’s “Kafala system”.
Lesson Plan Clip 1 | Advocate
Lea talks about the difference between “devil’s advocate” and “Human right’s lawyer”.
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