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Kaddish in Shanghai
Dvir Bar-Gal, Christine Choy, Chad Grochowski
What begins as a chance discovery at an antique shop in Shanghai for Israeli photographer Dvir Bar-Gal, becomes a personal quest, a mission to find out what happened to the city’s lost Jewish cemeteries, to unearth the many desecrated headstones and to persuade the Chinese government to allow creation of a memorial with them in Shanghai. Kaddish in Shanghai tells the story of this decade-long quest.
Keeper of the Beat
David L. Brown
Keeper of the Beat is a feature-length autobiographical documentary in which Barbara Borden, an acclaimed 61-year-old drummer, composer, teacher and peacemaker, tells her story in words and music. Weaving a variety of performance and achival footage with interviews with a range of noted artists and thinkers, students, family and friends who know Barbara and the social history of her times, Keeper of the Beat showcases the unfolding of her identity as a world musician.
Kilo
Kiel Murray & Phil Lorin
Tired of being under-utilized, Officer Min Lee jumps at an opportunity to work undercover and finally prove herself. But when she and her partner Juan lose a kilo of cocaine, she becomes desperate to make up for the loss and convinces Kevin, her arrestee, to order-up a replacement kilo. With less than an hour to make it all happen, Min finds herself in a moral tug of war with her career on one side and doing the right thing on the other.
King Philip's War
George Csicsery
King Philip's War will be a dramatic feature film about the first and bloodiest Anglo–Native American conflict in North America. The screenplay about the rebellion of Philip the Wampanoag and his allies against the United Colonies of New England in 1675 covers a critical episode in the history of European colonization of the Americas.
Kunjo
Terrie Samundra
Kuro, a young beggar girl, reveals her secret love of storytelling to an unlikely friend, a school girl named Preeta. Preeta betrays Kuro by entering the story as her own into a local playwriting competition. Will Kuro stand up for herself or submit to her place in society? Made in collaboration with a group of street children in rural Punjab, India and set within the social context of poverty, class, gender inequality and child labour, Kuro is ultimately a film of inspiration and triumph. (narrative short)
Kusama: Princess of Polka Dots
Heather Lenz, Karen Johnson
Yayoi Kusama made her mark on the 1960s New York art scene before being ostracized by the critics and falling into obscurity. Now 79, Kusama resides in a Tokyo mental institution and is considered one of Japan's greatest living artists. Her art, which draws on her own mental illness, prefigured many movements like Pop Art and minimalism, while also challenging notions about femininity and sexuality. Princess of Polka Dots examines Kusama's journey from a conservative upbringing in Japan to her brush with fame in America to her prodigious work while institutionalized and also examines the broader concept of art and mental illness.
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