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VOICES AND FACES: CAIRO

My friend is making a documentary on the 1,400 year old Muslim call to prayer, and they’re in desperate need of money. Here’s their kickstarter, please consider backing it if you can. Thank you very much, and sorry for the spam.

Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo is a feature-length documentary film examining the 1,400-year-old oral tradition of the Muslim call to prayer.

• Adhan: the Muslim call to prayer
• Muezzin: one who recites the adhan, calling believers to prayer five times daily
• There are over 30,000 paid and volunteer muezzins in Cairo

The film follows the muezzins of Cairo — the voices of the city — as the tradition of the adhan, and Egypt itself, undergo crucial changes.

We believe everyone can connect with the very human stories of our individual muezzins. In this way we see the film as an opportunity for intercultural dialogue between the West and the Middle East, at a time when it’s greatly needed.

Help us make the world a smaller place. Help us bridge these gaps between imaginary cultural divides. Help us make magic happen!

Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

1970. In his iconic documentary debut ‘The Quiet Mutiny’, John Pilger reports from the front line in Vietnam where he finds disillusioned American troops in open rebellion against the war.

poeticislam:

Watch Tears of Gaza here.

Make du’aa for our brothers and sisters. It’s the least we can do.

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noneofthismatters:

If you haven’t seen this, you should.

“In my opinion it’s a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.”
- William Faulkner

WORKINGMAN’S DEATH is an unflinching portrait of the state of manual labor in the 21st century. In the Ukraine, a group of men spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of illegal coal mines. Sulfur gatherers in Indonesia brave the smoky heat of an active volcano and the treacherous trip back down. Blood, fire and stench are routine for workers at a crowded open-air slaughterhouse in Nigeria. Pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal. Steelworkers in China fear they could be a dying breed. Today’s manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. WORKINGMAN’S DEATH provides a rare glimpse into the harsh treatment faced by manual laborers working half a world away.

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noneofthismatters:

Dark Days

This is a cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Dark Days is a documentary that enables its viewers to confront poverty on a human level by presenting its subjects, for the most part, like anyone else, living lives, despite their socioeconomic difference, relatable to our own. Shot in inky black and white, like a newspaper with graffiti typeface, and accompanied by experimental hip-hop maestro DJ Shadow’s music, the film’s bleak content is smartly aestheticized by these accoutrements, at once strengthening its sense of time and place and making the film more palatable and marketable. Being rereleased for its 10-year anniversary, Dark Days’s Metropolis-like setup, where the rich live in rising towers and the poor underground, may well be all the more relevant today given the widening gulf between the haves and have-nots and the economic storm that we all must try and weather.

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thepalestineyoudontknow:

In Jerusalem We Shall Stay \ Documentary (20 Minutes) : A must see
A documentary that describes lives of Palestinian women in Jerusalem who faces the danger of displacement from their city .

Here’s a short clip from Shouting in the Dark, a new documentary about the revolution in Bahrain, which went largely ignored as Tunisia and Egypt took the spotlight. The entire film is up online here.

Home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, Bahrain is considered a key strategic ally for the United States. The Obama administration recently abused a loophole to bypass Congress and sell weapons to the Bahraini government.

You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train - A documentary about Howard Zinn, narrated by Matt Damon

Trailer for “Finding North,” a new documentary that examines hunger in America, and proposed solutions to the problems.

The War You Don’t See

This is John Pilger’s second major film for cinema, after his 2006 award-winning The War on Democracy. A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, The War You Don’t See traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an ‘electronic battlefield.’ But who is the real enemy today?

the-modern-movement:

In many of the threads on this forum and others I’ve seen references to these three films: The Corporation, Inside Job, and Why We Fight. These are three great documentary films and they can all  be watched for free on FilmsForAction.org

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The Corporation: http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/The_Corporation/

Inside Job: http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Inside_Job_2010/

Why We Fight: http://www.filmsforaction.org/Watch/Why_We_Fight/

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WATCH THESE FILMS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE OCCUPYING WALL STREET!!!

Never seen “Why We Fight,” this is awesome.

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Waltz With Bashir is a groundbreaking animated documentary where an Israeli veteran of the First Lebanon War attempts to recover the memories he suppressed.

The whole thing is up on youtube

The Light Bulb Conspiracy is a documentary about planned obsolescence—the process by which manufacturers purposely shorten the life of their products, in order to force consumers to buy them over again. This is basically the best argument for socialism I’ve ever seen.

Here’s Hacking Democracy, a documentary about how our elections are rigged.

fakeagainstthemachine:

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