films

WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE AWARD AT SLAMDANCE 2023, American Pot Story: Oaksterdam is a documentary about how change transpires in America. The account of "a small group of concerned committed citizens" (to quote Margaret Mead) who took a huge risk in order to bring about a massive shift in public perception. It all happened at…

“After Ike” retraces Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower's pivotal 3,251-mile journey from Washington to San Francisco along the Lincoln Highway in 1919. This experience shaped his vision for U.S. highways that profoundly impacted small-town America and communities of color. The 60-minute film delves into the convoy's challenges and transformative effects. Director Biography - Gregory F Maassen,…

The graphic novel A Lifelong Survival was created at the instigation of the Education Department at the Dachau Memorial Site and completed in collaboration with the design agencies Goldener Westen and Navos (Berlin). It is available on the Memorial Site's website as an animated short film (in German and English) and a more detailed ePaper…

The film tells not only about the heroic actions of Edmund Malinowski, commander of the Home Army Deaf Platoon in the Warsaw Uprising in World War II, but also about the extraordinary involvement of deaf people in this historic event. In the history of World War II, there was no other unit like it. The…