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“A profound story of a decades-long concealment, which spawned distrust and suspicion. The documentary is not about healing forgetfulness, but rather an intricate and very German form of repression. It calmly tells the story of a hidden life, and does so with excitement, in the manner of a detective film with clues.—Anke Westphal, Berliner Zeitung

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Sounds from the Fog

“A profound story of a decades-long concealment, which spawned distrust and suspicion. The documentary is not about healing forgetfulness, but rather an intricate and very German form of repression. It calmly tells the story of a hidden life, and does so with excitement, in the manner of a detective film with clues.—Anke Westphal, Berliner Zeitung

“A profound story of a decades-long concealment, which spawned distrust and suspicion. The documentary is not about healing forgetfulness, but rather an intricate and very German form of repression. It calmly tells the story of a hidden life, and does so with excitement, in the manner of a detective film with clues.—Anke Westphal, Berliner Zeitung

“Jochen Hick and Andreas Strohfeldt weave together very human then-and-now stories with a sly wit and a sharp eye. Out In East Berlin is not targeted exclusively at LGBT audiences. Anyone with an interest in European political and social history, particularly the failed utopia of Soviet Communism, will find rich pickings here.” —Stephen Dalton, The

Now availabe on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, Vudu “A portrait of the conflicted, yet deeply loving dynamic among the children of a Holocaust survivor….their warmly combative, often darkly humorous debates prove rare, revelatory and intensely absorbing.” —Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

“The film tells how gay musician Willi Heckmann survived the concentration camps. The title in German seems like a paradox: “Sounds of Silence.” Can silence have sound at all? However, in post-war Germany, which Klaus Stanjek shows in this moving documentary, the silence must have been deafening.”— Christian Schröder, Tagesspiegel

“An incredibly moving documentary because Klaus Stanjek is not only the observant documentarian, but his personal touch and vibration are palpable. Equipped with numerous family photos and his own very positive memories of his uncle, Stanjek began his meticulous search for clues that led him to the Mauthausen concentration camp.”—Astrid Priebs-Tröger, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten

“A heartbreaking and wryly humane film. There’s an original and a subtle assessment of memory in Six Million and One. It takes you from the apocalyptic to the eerily ordinary….We’re reminded that history and memory require an active discussion among the later generations.” —David D’Arcy, ArtInfo.com

“The GDR’s lifting of the ban on homosexuality was portrayed as an example of its progressivism. Yet….activists continued to be spied on and harassed by the Stasi. The contradictions between this surface-level tolerance and state-sponsored repression are explored in Out in East Berlin—Lesbians and Gays in the GDR. — James Kirchick, Der Spiegel

“The wholesale persecution of gays and lesbians under communism is exposed in Out in East Berlin. Filmmakers Jochen Hick and Andreas Strohfeldt show how they were systematically ostracized by a totalitarian regime which pretended to the outside world that it was tolerant of homosexuality.” — Tony Paterson, The Independent

Now available on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Google Play & Vudu. “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish tucks Shakespeare’s tale of greatest woe into a story of intra-Judaic culture clash in present day Brooklyn. Ms. Annenberg achieves the energy and inventiveness of an improvised, process-driven group project….absolutely thrilling.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times

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Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans “Flat out brilliant…This is a great piece of storytelling, filmmaking and testifying. It is also, arguably, the most poignant film ever made about New Orleans” —J.B. Borders, The New Orleans Tribune

“The film, like Rudi’s photos, is a vibrant documentation of the people of Israel, above and beyond any institutional history.” —George Robinson, The Jewish Week (New York)

“Contemporary filmmakers are refreshingly direct in how they treat delicate material, none more so than David Fisher. His powerhouse Six Million and One isn’t the first film in which he’s forced his siblings to confront their parents’ experiences during the Nazi era, but it’s the most brutally candid and unexpectedly funny.” —Michael Fox, KQED

“Exuberance, awkwardness, recklessness, spontaneity, and yearning—qualities valued in productions of Shakespeare’s tragedy of teenage amour fou—are abundantly present in Eve Annenberg’s Romeo And Juliet In Yiddish…. effortlessly sophisticated, the movie is an astonishment almost from beginning to end.” —Amy Taubin, Art Forum

“Moving, tight and heartbreaking script…exceptional performances” —Schuyler Velasco, The Forward

“Timely and essential… The film’s deft blend of first-person narrative and archival photos, contemporary talking heads and theatrical recreation, underscores Elie’s question: “How can our past help us survive this time?” —Larry Blumenfeld, The Village Voice

“From Eytan Fox, this flashy but solidly grounded survey of modern Israeli gay life reveals the price a talented young drag star must pay to turn his mom’s delusions into the basis for a satisfying grownup queer life.” —David Lamble, Bay Area Reporter

“The film weaves past and present as the legacy and work of the late photographer Rudi Weissenstein is kept alive….“Life in Stills” offers a moving portrait of two generations bound by love, tragedy, respect for the past, and determination to preserve it for the future.” —Loren King, Boston Globe/Boston.com