Date: June 3 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 90 min, USA, 2013. Filmmaker(s): Ben Nabors Website | Facebook Synopsis: Despite unbelievable circumstances, young Malawian William Kamkwamba builds a power-generating windmill from scraps parts, effectively rescuing his family from famine and poverty. This feature-length documentary tells the story of a unique individual whose incredible invention sets in motion a series of events that will forever change his life. Director Ben Nabors in Attendance for Post Screening Q&A. Awards: Grand Jury Award, SXSW Film Festival...
HERMAN’S HOUSE
Date: June 17 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 90 min, USA, 2013. Filmmaker(s): Angad Bhalla Website | Facebook Synopsis: The injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art are explored in Herman’s House, a feature documentary that follows the unlikely friendship between a New York artist and one of America’s most famous inmates as they collaborate on an acclaimed art project. Director Angad Bhalla in Attendance for Post Screening...
THE MACHINE WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR
Date: July 1, 2013 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 101 min, Georgia / Germany, 2013. Filmmaker(s): Tinatin Gurchiani Website | Facebook Synopsis: A film director casting a 15-23-year-old ideal protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who prove to be interesting enough through various dramatic and funny situations. Skype Q&A with Director Tinatin Gurchiani Post...
YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT
Date: July 15 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 64 min, USA, 2013. Filmmaker(s): Lynne Sachs Website | Facebook Synopsis: Since the early days of New York’s Lower East Side tenement houses, working class people have shared beds, making such spaces a fundamental part of immigrant life. Initially documented in Jacob Riis’ now controversial late 19th Century photography, a “shift-bed” is an actual bed that is shared by people who are neither in the same family nor in a relationship. Simply put, it’s an economic necessity brought on by the challenges of urban existence. Such a bed can become a...
IF IT FITS
Special Co-Presentation with Documentary Educational Resources! Date: July 29 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 58 min, USA, 1978. Filmmaker(s): John Marshall and Mark Erder Website | Facebook Synopsis: The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film’s subjects, “a ghost town where you expect to see tumbleweeds come rolling down Main Street.” This film examines a dying industrial town and its politicians’ search for votes over such issues as municipal spending, rising taxes, the revitalization of...
FUCK FOR FOREST
Date: August 12 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 85 min, Poland, 2013. Filmmaker(s): Michal Marczak Website | Facebook Synopsis: Have Sex. Save the World. Berlin’s Fuck For Forest is one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films on the internet. Director Michal Marczak joining by Skype and Producer Shane Boris in person for a...
