Blindsight is the movie that inspired our interview with Sabriye Tenberken. A stunning film directed by the superbly talented Lucy Walker, Blindsight introduces us to Tenberken as a young blind woman traveling through Tibet to recruit students for her school for the blind in Lhasa—the country’s first and only school for blind children. Because many Tibetans believe that blindness is a curse for sins in a previous incarnation, blind children […]
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Girls will rise
Girl Rising: A girl with courage is a revolution. This is the gut-wrenching, heart-expanding documentary about nine girls–from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Nepal, Peru, and Sierra Leone–who represent millions of girls denied schooling, forced into marriage, sold into slavery, who irrepressibly persevere to rise up. Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins with cinematography by David Rush Morrison, Girl Rising profiles girls like Suma, a Nepalese girl sold […]
January movies you might’ve missed | Spiritual politics
There are political films and spiritual films, but relatively few that explore the intersection between the two. Two classics come to mind—Gandhi and Seven Years in Tibet—which no doubt many readers have seen. However, three of the most powerful films that explicitly engage the intersection of spirituality and politics are the trilogy of documentaries by Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper: Scared Sacred, Fierce Light, and Occupy Love. Scared Sacred is a […]
December Movies You Might’ve Missed
There are countless films that chronicle the difficult delivery of something new—be it a new social order, a new government, a new invention, a new way of doing something. I’m thinking of films like Gandhi, Pollock, and even Tucker. But because this page is devoted to “Movies You Might’ve Missed,” I’d like to mention one—The Times of Harvey Milk—that portrays the work of an individual to change the status quo […]
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