Der gutmütige Außerirdische PK kommt aus einer entfernten Galaxis und landet eines Tages auf der Erde, um den blauen Planeten und seine Bewohner zu studieren. Als ihm die Möglichkeit zur Rückreise vorerst verwehrt bleibt, scheinen sich seine Untersuchungen auf unbestimmte Zeit zu verlängern. Ein Großteil der Leute, die ihm auf seinem Weg begegnen, ist der Meinung, dass nur Gott bei der Lösung seiner Probleme helfen kann. Das nimmt PK zum Anlass, die verschiedenen Religionen und Lebensweisen der Menschen genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Mit seiner naiven Weltsicht und seiner kindlichen Art stellt er das Leben vieler auf den Kopf. Denn seine Fragen mögen einfach sein, doch die Antworten darauf sind komplex und lassen die Leute ihr eigenes Dasein hinterfragen. Damit schafft sich PK loyale Freunde, aber auch mächtige Feinde. Doch auf seiner spirituellen Reise lässt sich der sonderbare Mann von einem anderen Stern nicht beirren und inspiriert Millionen von Menschen...
Der Junggeselle Fred Williams und seine drei verheirateten Freunde George, Doug und Howard suchen nach mehr als eine gewöhnliche Ehe, Kinder und TV-Abende. Insgeheim besorgen sie sich ein Apartment in New York mit einer wunderschönen jungen Frau, Kathy, für romantische Treffen. Doch was Kathy den vier Helden nicht erzählt hat, ist dass sie Soziologie studiert und eine Studie über das Sexualleben von amerikanischen Männern durchführt.
Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
Der junge Soziologe Stanislas verfällt bei seiner Dissertation über kriminelle Frauen dem inhaftierten Flittchen Camille. Mit seiner Sekretärin Hélène will Stanislas die Unschuld Camilles an einigen Morden beweisen. Doch die erweist sich als undankbar.
A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
Adam Pearson - who has neurofibromatosis type 1 - is on a mission to explore disability hate crime: to find out why it goes under-reported, under-recorded and under people's radar.
Fernab aller Integrationsromantik, schildert dieser Film das Leben von jungen Erwachsenen in Altenessen, einem Arbeiterviertel nördlich von Essen. Zentrum des Films ist die Band "Kreator". Kreator spielen Thrashmetal: Ein Mix aus Punk, Rock, und Metal. Thrashmetal ist der Rock'n Roll der achtziger und rebellischer Ausdruck, einer zutiefst frustrierten Generation. Kreator’s Musik, Freunde und Nachbarn bilden den Hintergrund dieser Dokumentation. In Interviews, wird der Niedergang einer Region, die vom Bergbau abhängig war, geschildert. Konzertmitschnitte sowie Kamerabilder aus dem Bezirk Altenessen, lassen Bilder eines deutschen Arbeiterviertels der achtziger Jahre und seiner Bewohner entstehen. Momentaufnahmen, die in der Dekade der „Reaganomics“ wie Schablonen wirken. Als Blaupause aufgelegt, wirken diese Gesichts gebend auf Städte wie Detroit oder Liverpool, ohne einen direkten Kontext zu benennen.
After losing his son in a traffic accident and his wife to mental illness, Harry moves to a gloomy Stockholm suburb. A local youth gang is harassing the neighborhood and Harry comes up with the idea of hiring the gang to kill the bureaucrats who are responsible for the construction of the suburb. The film is a fierce critique of the political project of building suburbs designed only for workers to sleep in and also wants to have a say in the debate over nature vs nurture.
Steve, a 25-year-old Black man from the Paris suburbs, seeks to escape the violence of his immediate surroundings by training to become an actor at one of France’s most prestigious drama schools. But soon he discovers that the theater world is only interested in having him inhabit “Black” roles.
Director Drew Stone’s The New York Hardcore Chronicles Film is an incredible journey through the community and culture of the iconic New York hardcore scene. Not the typical history of a local music scene but so much more. Shot in an episodic format, the film contains over 60 interviews, never before seen footage, photos and a blazing soundtrack. With appearances by Roger Miret & Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front), Lou Koller, Craig Setari (Sick Of It All), Ray Cappo (Youth Of Today), Billy Graziadei (Biohazard), Billy Milano (S.O.D. / M.O.D.) and Mike Judge (Judge). The film addresses the community, culture, straight edge and DIY ethic of the hardcore scene in the greatest city in the world that is still vibrant, relevant and going strong to this day.
Thirty-year-old Mia, going through a divorce, shifts into a small studio apartment in a public housing project. A former swimming champion, she finds herself giving swimming lessons to the building's inhabitants. Without a pool.
A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contacts Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who will become his mouthpiece and articulate what is wrong. But along the way the director becomes distracted by another person, a young, fumbling girl reminiscent of himself.
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
"Bias" challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Through exposing her own biases, award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser highlights the nature of implicit bias, the grip it holds on our social and professional lives, and what it will take to induce change.
This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.