JustFilms Collection
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
A visual feast, relying less on the well-chosen words of the expert contributors and more on crisp and creative cinematography to introduce Roche’s glorious spaces such as the Oakland Museum, California, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Roche was principal architect for over 40 years, and the Convention Centre Dublin.
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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is the first in-depth presentation of Hansberry’s complex life, using her personal papers and archives, including home movies and rare photos, as source material. The film explores the influences that shaped Hansberry’s childhood, future art and activism.
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The Borneo Case
The Borneo Case tells the compelling story of the destruction of the Borneo rain forest and of the hunt for the billions of dollars that have been filtered away into secret bank accounts and property portfolios around the world.
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The Lavender Scare
The Lavender Scare is the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual.
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To a More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor
A story of love, marriage and a fight for equality. The film chronicles unlikely heroes — octogenarian Edie Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, on their quest for justice for same-sex couples.
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Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route
Detroit 48202 examines the rise, demise, and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of mail carrier Wendell Watkins and the residents he has faithfully served for 30 years.
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Silas
Through the focus on one country, Silas is a global tale that warns of the power of politics and celebrates the power of individuals to fight back, seize control of their lands and protect their environment.
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Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S., but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Long Season
The Long Season is a documentary about life in Majdal Anjar, a Syrian camp in Lebanon, and the daily activities of those whose lives are postponed, waiting to return to Raqqa.
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Unrest
Jennifer is twenty-eight years-old, working on her PhD at Harvard, and months away from marrying the love of her life when a mysterious fever leaves her bedridden. When doctors tell her it’s “all in her head,” she picks up her camera as an act of defiance and brings us into a hidden world of millions that medicine abandoned.
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Collisions
We go on a virtual reality journey into the Western Australian desert, the land of the Martu tribe. Elder Nyarri Morgan’s introduction to Western culture was a collision between science and spirit. Here he gives the Martu perspective on caring for the planet for future generations.
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Do Not Resist
From Ferguson, Missouri, to a high-end weapons technologies presentation for police buyers, to a community that has just received its very own military-grade tank, we witness the rapid militarization of the police in the United States.