Country:United States of America

Director:Spike Lee

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

Based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it tells the story from his childhood to his life in prison, to his religious conversion to the point of establishing “any means necessary.”

Country:United States of America

Director:Sascha Paladino

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

The American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck travels across Africa to explore the African roots of the banjo. He visits Mali, Gambia, Tanzania and Uganda.

Country:South America

Director:Various

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

The historic encounter between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make.

Country:United States of America

Director:Kurt Kuenne

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

This film relates a private, painful and remarkable history. When Kuenne hears the ex of his murdered friend is pregnant, he decides to make a film as a gift to the child.

Country:United States of America

Director:William Wyler

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

A grandiose Hollywood epic in which Prince Judah Ben-Hur refusing to divulge the names of Jews who oppose Roman rule is sent off as a galley slave.

Country:United States of America

Director:Pita Ryms & Band Charles Chaplin

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

This film is grounded in historic circumstances as Chaplin’s famous Tramp character travels to the great white north to take part in the Alaskan Gold Rush.

Country:United States of America

Director:Brian DePalma

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

DePalma’s frontline attack on media and morality in the war machine. The film records various stories about the war in Iraq, ostensibly from different media.

Country:United States of America

Director:Theodore Braun

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

The struggles and achievements of six individuals bring to light the situation in Darfur and the need to get involved.

Country:France

Director:Claude Lanzmann

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

Lanzmann's most renowned work is a 9.5 hour film experience which is an oral history of the Holocaust, considered to be the foremost film on the subject.

Country:United States of America

Director:Charlie Kaufman

Program:Alternate Universes

Summary:

Theatre director Caden gathers a cast into a warehouse instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside.