Euzhan Palcy

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Historical seventeenth-century romantic-epic-action-adventure where three women survived a harrowing ocean voyage from France to forcibly marry French ex-patriots on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion).

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...

A three-part study that introduces audiences to the celebrated Martinican author Aimé Césaire, who coined the term "négritude" and launched the movement called the "Great Black Cry".

The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.

This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by his alcoholic mother, but the games he plays in the forest mirror his troubles at home. "Boy" - a child faces discrimination as the only white student at his school. "Carmelo" - in Bogota a child living on the streets fights to survive. "Oca" - when his twelve year old brother dies free-diving in the Philippines, seven year old Oca must take his place on the job. "L'enfance de l'art" - children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence.

Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

The Producer and the Director must function like two hands of the same heart.

The forgotten history of "dissidents", the men and women of Martinique and Guadeloupe who left their islands between 1940 and 1943. The film features interviews with those in the resistance who tell their stories with passion, humility and humor.

Her first picture, La Messagère (The Messenger, 1975), made by Palcy before she left for Paris, allowed people from Martinique to see themselves for the first time on television as complex characters.

In a small fishing village in the West Indies, the children believe they see, in a strange cabin located on the way to the school, a devil.