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  • Work in Progress

    Movie

    Why should work be a burden that we should get rid of as soon as possible? Work in Progress explores the different ways to give meaning to your work thanks to the transformations of the last few years. In the 21st century, it is up to us to find the environment that suits us, to find the codes we...

  • Wood of Value

    Movie

    A journey of a tree.

  • Won't Let the Angels Take You Away

    Movie

    A family, a flood, and folk music: Three months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a husband and wife country/bluegrass band called Truckstop Honeymoon return from their new residence in Lawrence, Kansas to survey the damage to their home and community in the Ninth Ward.

    Utilizing the dire...

  • Women's March

    Movie

    On January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington, DC. That same day, hundreds of sister marches took place across the country and around the world. It grew into the largest one-day protest in American history.

  • Within A Season

    Movie

    Jan Conner is one of the most successful and controversial basketball coaches in Indiana. After winning 2 high school state championships, she retired in 2001. 5 years later, she returned to coaching at a new school with a new team. Within A Season follows her and the players throughout their ent...

  • Wisconsin Rising

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    Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers' resistance movement in American history. Wisconsin was a testing ground for the nation in 2011 as big money attempted to undo basic workers' rights when newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining...

  • Windjammer

    Movie

    Mighty Adventure . . .

  • Will & Right: Religion, Politics and Gay Marriage

    Movie

    On February 24th, 2004 President George W. Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Three days later in response to the President’s words and inspired by events in Massachusetts, Village of New Paltz Mayor, Jason West, began solemnizing same-sex marriag...

  • Wide Boyz

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    The world of offwidth crack climbing is a strange sub-culture rumoured to be dominated by knuckle-dragging, bar-brawling dirt-bags! The climbing is tough, painful and bloody. Two climbers from England, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, set out to explore this world and climb the world’s hardest off...

  • Wide Boyz II - Slender Gentlemen

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    After their success climbing the world’s hardest offwidth, the Wide Boyz, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, embark on their next crack climbing mission. This time their sights are set on the thinner end of the crack climbing spectrum. Their goal is the mighty Cobra Crack in Squamish BC, considered ...

  • Why Not Now John Henry

    Movie

    A docubiopic of young Harlem entrepreneur John Henry, who asked "Why not now?" and went from doorman to dry cleaner to dealmaker.

  • Whose War?

    Movie

    With a body count of nearly three thousand U.S. soldiers, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been seen by many as the ultimate folly of the Bush Administration. Now in the documentary "Whose War?" three leading American anti-war activists gather to dissect the motives and fatal consequences of this, A...

  • Who Will Stand

    Movie

    Unlike other films about the war in Iraq, but “Who Will Stand” addresses the issues soldiers deal with after they return home.

    The documentary covers the plights of more than a dozen soldiers who have returned either physically or psychologically wounded. It addresses a soldier’s unwillingness ...

  • Who We Are

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    A young Iñupiaq artist connects to ancestral lands through her work. As she paints, she reflects on climate change and its effects on Alaska Native villages. She narrates the motivation behind the portrait while exploring her role in the preservation of land and culture. The film aims to honor th...

  • Who Wants to Live Forever, The Wisdom of Aging

    Movie

    Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for both longevity and healthy aging. The filmmakers behind this movie offer no conclusions but suggest each viewer examine the information and decide...

  • Which Way to the War?

    Movie

    Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, was also becoming the world's 3rd largest democracy with its free elections in 1998. While most of the country remained remarkably peaceful during this transitional moment, a remote area on the island of Sulawesi - Poso - fell victim to brutal c...

  • Where Have All the Mermaids Gone?

    Movie

    Two commercial fishermen struggle to make ends meet.

  • When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun

    Movie

    Unfortunately, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people receive little political support in their drive to put an end to the Chinese brutal regime.

  • When a Town Runs Dry

    Movie

    When A Town Runs Dry documents life in Stratford, a small town in California's Central Valley. A farming community for over a hundred years, Stratford is suffering from a drought that is severely impacting the community, land, and residents' daily lives.

    Currently in its sixth year of drought, t...

  • When We Were Knights

    Movie

    Understanding that his life was threaded with risk, climber and BASE jumper Matt Blank embarked on a project: writing letters to his closest friends and family to let them know how much they meant to him. That way, he figured, if his life were cut short he’d leave something behind to express his ...

  • When We Talk About KGB

    Movie

    A young freedom fighter and a KGB operative both grew up during the Soviet era. Today they describe what made them choose their different directions. After many years of waiting for her husband to return from a psychiatric hospital-prison, a dissident's wife tries to fill the enormous vacuum in h...

  • When I Grow Up...

    Movie

    Kelly Rose is currently running for the Georgia State Senate in District 17. She is challenging the incumbent Republican Senator and hopes to be the Democratic nominee to flip the seat. After taking her grievances to the State Senate regarding women's rights, she found that they were unwilling to...

  • What Remains After We're Gone

    Movie

    A group of jilted souls have found refuge inside a forsaken neighbourhood scorched by brutal violence, fire and destruction. They try to build themselves a home but the memories of the place still walk among them. A sensorial reflexion about what we leave of us in the place we’ve been.

  • What Comes After Religion

    Movie

    The debate between believers and atheists usually goes nowhere. The real issue is: what should fill the gaps created by the end of widespread belief? What should fill the God-shaped hole?