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"Poetic and exquisite" -New York Times
"Astonishing... an indelible must-see film." -The Forward
"Elegant...graceful and charming,'In Heaven, Underground' is a delightful surprise." -The Jewish Week
"An engaging and surprisingly playful movie" -NY MAG
"Stunning... gorgeously photographed." -Paste Magazine
*Panorama Audience Award Berlin Int'l Film Festival
*Honorable Mention Jerusalem Film Festival
*Official Selection Hot Docs Film Festival
*Official Selection Hamptons Int'l Film Festival
*Official Selection San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND: THE WEISSENSEE JEWISH CEMETERY is a lively and enchanting journey celebrating life and the immortality of memories. North of Berlin's noisy city centre, surrounded by a jungle of trees and lush foliage, lies the peaceful and secluded 130-year-old Weissensee Jewish Cemetery, the largest Jewish cemetery still in use in Europe. Its one hundred acres holds 115,000 graves and a meticulous archive record. The cemetery has never closed, even remaining in Jewish hands during the Nazi regime. Award-winning director Britta Wauer's charming portrait creates a serene experience following a delightful array of characters from around the world: mourners, tourists, a young family residing at the cemetery, a third-generation gravedigger and an ornithologist studying rare birds of prey.
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7th Art Releasing is thrilled to present two amazing documentaries at IDFA this year: THE KINGDOM OF SURVIVAL and BURY THE HATCHET.
These films and many more from 7th Art are available for international sales, with a slew of new titles coming in the 2012.
THE KINGDOM OF SURVIVAL
*Official Selection IDFA Festival
*IDFA Docs For Sale
"The worst prison is ignorance."
THE KINGDOM OF SURVIVAL explores the modern disenfranchisement of the 99% in America, challenges the status quo and uncovers provocative links between survivalist philosophy, ecumenical spirituality, radical political theory, and outlaw culture.
With discussions with some of America's most thoughtful rebel voices -- Professor Noam Chomsky, Dr. Mark Mirabello, Ramsey Kanaan -- and the riveting final interview with beloved author, Joe Bageant, these unique leaders cast a rare shadow of doubt over some of the most blindly accepted American traditions.
THE KINGDOM OF SURVIVAL @ IDFA SHOWTIMES:
Fri. 18-11 / 10:00 / Munt 09
Mon. 21-11 / 16:00 / Brakke Grond Expozall
Wed. 23-11 / 22:15 / Munt 12
BURY THE HATCHET
*IDFA Docs for Sale
*Official Selection Hot Docs Film Festival
BURY THE HATCHET is a lyrical and intriguing portrait of three Mardi Gras Indian "Big Chiefs." The Big Chiefs are the descendants of runaway slaves who were taken in by the Native Americans of the Louisiana bayous. These African-American tribes were once plagued by violent gang-style clashes. Now, every year during Mardi Gras, they take to the backstreets of New Orleans, dressed in elaborate Native-American influenced costumes that they sew over the course of the year. Where they once fought with hatchets, they now battle over which Chief has the best suit.
Following the Mardi Gras Indians over the course of five years - before, during and after Hurricane Katrina - filmmaker Aaron C. Walker explores their art and philosophies, as well as their struggles within their communities: harassment by the police, violence amongst themselves, gentrification of their neighborhoods, disinterested youth, old age and natural disaster.
BURY THE HATCHET brings to light the real people, culture, and incredible music of the Mardi Gras chiefs that inspired the Emmy-nominated HBO show, Treme, and its character, Big Chief Albert Lambreaux.
Seventh Art Releasing is happy to announce that they have acquired the documentary HOW TO START A REVOLUTION.
*Winner! Best Documentary Raindance Film Festival
*Winner! Best Documentary Boston Film Festival
*Winner! Mass Impact Award Boston Film Festival
Half a world away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, an aging American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighborhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world's dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime.
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION reveals the remarkable story of modern revolution, the power of people to change their world and the man behind it all. Quiet, unassuming, soft-spoken and barely known to the wider world, 83 year old Professor Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook for revolutionary leaders around the globe. Used by activists from Serbia to Egypt, from Ukraine to Syria, and now influencing Occupy Wall Street, one of Gene's most important books 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' is nothing less than a handbook of 198 strategic 'weapons' that are used to topple dictators. Banned in many countries, his work has influenced a generation of revolutionary leaders who yearn for democratic freedom in Asia, throughout Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and now here in America.
This film explores how, in a few short years, a new wave of revolutionary spirit has swept across the world through a network of international activists, trainers and teachers. It reveals how the leaders of an uprising in one country train and inspire the participants in the next and explores how social media now threatens dictators around the globe in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago.
We meet revolutionary leaders from Serbia, Ukraine, Egypt and Syria as they explain how they struggled to seize democratic power from the hands of dictators. And, as the world's headlines turn once again to Egypt in Autumn 2011 for the first Presidential elections, HOW TO START A REVOLUTION is an inspiring exploration of the power of people to change their world.
GENE SHARP - Few people outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably 'From Dictatorship to Democracy', a 93-page, 198-step guide to toppling dictators, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters living under authoritarian regimes who yearn for democratic freedom.
His ideas have taken root in places as far apart as Burma, Thailand, Bosnia, Estonia, Iran, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and now in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as old orders crumble amidst the protests of their disgruntled citizens.
"The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said that it has "serious concerns" that Iran is secretly working toward building a nuclear bomb..."< -The International Atomic Energy Agency
Seventh Art Releasing's film IRANIUM has been screened before congress and government officials in the US and for audiences around the country.
IRANIUM explores the principles of the 1979 Islamic revolution, demonstrates the hatred and violence exhibited by Iran's leadership, and documents the regime's abuse of their citizenry, and its use of terror proxies abroad. Iran's development of a nuclear program has only added to the already immense danger posed by this regime.
Read the complete Washington Post article here!
