Movies: The Bertha Foundation

  • 2014
    Citizenfour

    Citizenfour (2014)

    Citizenfour

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    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her....

    Citizenfour
  • 2017
    Trophy

    Trophy (2017)

    Trophy

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    This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities....

    Trophy
  • 2016
    Notes on Blindness

    Notes on Blindness (2016)

    Notes on Blindness

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    After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness ...

    Notes on Blindness
  • 2016
    Cameraperson

    Cameraperson (2016)

    Cameraperson

    6.82016HD

    As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation...

    Cameraperson
  • 2019
    Cold Case Hammarskjöld

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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    Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl ...

    Cold Case Hammarskjöld
  • 2021
    Writing with Fire

    Writing with Fire (2021)

    Writing with Fire

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    In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines o...

    Writing with Fire
  • 2014
    Food Chains

    Food Chains (2014)

    Food Chains

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    This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictate low wages and inhumane labor conditions for farmworkers in the United States....

    Food Chains
  • 2017
    Liyana

    Liyana (2017)

    Liyana

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    A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest....

    Liyana
  • 2018
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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    Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction ...

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • 2023
    While We Watched

    While We Watched (2023)

    While We Watched

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    A turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiraling world of truth and disinformation....

    While We Watched
  • 2023
    President

    President (2023)

    President

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    Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they inter...

    President
  • 2014
    The Homestretch

    The Homestretch (2014)

    The Homestretch

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    Three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a brighter future....

    The Homestretch
  • 2021
    Boycott

    Boycott (2021)

    Boycott

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    As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to ...

    Boycott
  • 2017
    Naila and the Uprising

    Naila and the Uprising (2017)

    Naila and the Uprising

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    The remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada (1987)....

    Naila and the Uprising
  • 2020
    Love & Stuff

    Love & Stuff (2020)

    Love & Stuff

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    Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms over...

    Love & Stuff
  • 2017
    The Departure

    The Departure (2017)

    The Departure

    6.82017HD

    An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renowned in Japan for saving the lives of countless suicidal men and women through his wise and compassionate...

    The Departure
  • 2018
    16 Shots

    16 Shots (2018)

    16 Shots

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    Documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued....

    16 Shots
  • 2016
    The Coming War on China

    The Coming War on China (2016)

    The Coming War on China

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    The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an insp...

    The Coming War on China
  • 2018
    Call Her Ganda

    Call Her Ganda (2018)

    Call Her Ganda

    5.42018HD

    When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice a...

    Call Her Ganda
  • 2019
    Advocate

    Advocate (2019)

    Advocate

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    Lea Tsemel, a Jewish-Israeli lawyer, defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned,...

    Advocate