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- An anthropology student invites his classmates and professor to his family's abandoned ranch, once a sacred Chumash burial ground, to recreate an ancient ceremony.
- An attorney decides to take a trip with his father to their isolated family cabin to talk things out but their ensuing family argument is suddenly interrupted by two escaped convicts.
- Ibogaine: Rite of Passage follows an American heroin addict through an ibogaine session at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. Through a series of critical interviews with former addicts, ibogaine facilitators, and other experts, the documentary asks if the controversial status of ibogaine is due to economics or to its hallucinogenic effects? [maps.org]
- A disillusioned modern man is haunted by memories of a previous life as a primitive caveman who lived in a hostile past world. The caveman walks across a harsh landscape, hunts animals for food, battles savage apes, and scales a deep cliff.
- Australian producer, reporter and cameraman, Tim Noonan, travels to harsh environments all over the world.
- A feature length drama made collaboratively with young people who dip below the surface of their often tough exteriors to reveal what is going on inside.
- A teenage boy must endure a series of challenges and trials on his quest to become a man.
- Artist Grayson Perry sets out to explore the landmark events in all our lives - birth, coming of age, marriage and death - and tries to reinvent them for our modern secular age.
- Nobody knows the time and effort taken in the preparation of a Bat Mitzvah better than Amy. After having a crisis of faith on the eve of her Bat Mitzvah Amy must choose between doing what is right for her or what is right for her family.
- Two brothers in the middle of a fight get trapped in a mysterious elevator that reveals to them blood has nothing to do with family.
- A documentary on the making of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) featuring interviews with the cast and crew, as well as behind-the-scenes footage.
- After an event videographer realizes he's never had his own rite of passage, he hires a stranger to kidnap him in an attempt to jump-start some transcendence.
- The Maasai tribe, who live an exotic life on the border of Kenya, are the subject of this fascinating documentary about a people and place far removed from our own everyday reality. Filmmaker, Brad Minnich was granted unprecedented access to a three-day ceremony where Maasai Warriors gather, slaughter a Bull, drink its blood and graduate into Elderhood.
- It's the tale of the city of Nicodemus, Kansas and the special souls that have gathered to protect it.
- Rites of Passage is a series that explores the four common human experiences of birth, death, coming of age and marriage through different cultural and religious perspectives. Shot entirely in HD, it is a visually stunning series that is unique in its access to significant ceremonies. From inside of a Hindu Mandir to a Sikh Gurdwara, from a Jewish death rite to Zororastrian coming of age, this series shows us there is more in common to the four pillars of life then there are differences.
- A summation of the thoughts and feelings during one of the world's greatest gatherings.
- A boy becomes a man in the desert of Nevada: 70 miles on the trail, 7000-foot rise in elevation - One life lesson: Men Do Hard Things.
- Filmed in Bangkok, Rites of Passage (Part 1) documents the story of Maya (Mohammad) Jafer, a 42-year old Indo-Muslim transsexual female, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in early 2011. This film follows her through the moments leading towards and during her surgery, capturing her in times of utmost vulnerability and ecstasy. This film is an honest and truthful look at Maya's journey to fully-realized self-hood.
- ShortIn this witty comedy, Justin and Nina find themselves in a stagnant relationship after 5 years of being together. It is on this night, however, that they decide to change things up by going out to a new club in town for Justin's birthday. Neither of them know what's in store when they reach this club and find that the jungle theme is taken way too seriously.
- Aliens invaded our planet, waging war until we agreed to a peace treaty. On each human's 13th birthday, one of their young would be sent to battle one of ours-- a new rite of passage.
- Rite of Passage is a deeply personal, poetic and political film inspired by Patrick Keiller that blends the essayistic and first-person film modes to create a non-fiction transposition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Charlie's journey to and perambulation of Gatwick resembles a 'psychogeographic' interrogation of the airport within the landscape as the site of two G4S-run Immigration Removal Centres. Avoiding unhelpful media representations of undocumented migrants that further subjugates their social status as 'other' to the white westerner, the metaphorical journey within Rite of Passage deftly reverses subjective representation, placing the semi-fictional protagonist, son of a former high-ranking G4S exec, within the mindset of the detainee awaiting deportation.
- The Hurt 100 is a test...a modern day personal rite of passage for anyone who attempts to run it - a test to pursue personal excellence.
- The most ancient rituals of body piercing around the world.
- Cast members of the movie My Best Friend's Girl discuss their prom memories.
- A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on the body, space, and the present moment.
- A father takes his 15-year-old son into the Florida wilderness, on a journey from boyhood into manhood.
- Maggie Steber was an only child. Madje Steber was a single parent. They were all the family they had and it wasn't easy. Madje divorced when Maggie was only six months old. Strong and independent, Madje raised her daughter in the small Texas town of Electra, near the Oklahoma border. She had a keen awareness of what others might be thinking of a young single mother at a time when that was often viewed as a scarlet letter. Their tiny house had strict rules and a formality that rubbed Maggie the wrong way, especially during her teenage years. Their relationship was strained with arguments and threats to move out. At the age of twenty-one, Maggie finally did. "I wanted to leave, I had to leave," Maggie says. "I went to New York to find my fortune, and there I found it." That fortune was as an internationally acclaimed photojournalist. She covered everything from fashion to war and completed stories in 62 different countries. She worked routinely for National Geographic, was the Director of Photography for the Miami Herald and taught at various universities and workshops. As the years passed and Madje grew older, her memory began to fade. Maggie tried to help, but her busy career kept her away from Texas. She was only was able to visit a few times year. To this day, Maggie wonders if she did enough for her aging mother. Eventually it became apparent, Madje had dementia. The disease proved relentless and Madje could not live alone anymore. Maggie was faced with an issue that more and more Americans must deal with as the massive baby-boomer population grows older. Maggie moved her mother to Miami to care for her. "This is my last chance to do it right," Maggie says. Over the next few years, Maggie turned her professional eye on her own life, documenting Madje's life in an assisted living facility. The images speak to the pain of loss, the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship and the fragility of life. They reveal beauty in a liberation from the roles Maggie and Madje had learned to play as mother and daughter. They speak to both the harsh and humorous realities of life with a diminished parent and contain lessons for all of us as we face these issues in our own lives. "This body of work is the most important one I have ever done," says Maggie, "and will ever do. It's Madje's story, but really and truly, it's my story."
- An experimental film which explores the light and optical effects of architecture along that part of the Seine River that passes through Paris.
- A half hour documentary that follows the Canadian national junior baseball team down to the Dominican Republic with one final chance to impress the scouts before the draft. Interviews From Jose Bautista, Brett Lawrie Justin Morneau and More.
- Dive into the Celestial Mysteries as you learn more about the things you will experience as your soul travels through the Rites of Passage.
- What's the American rite of passage? Is there one? Two friends journey cross country to find out. They talk with anthropologists and everyday folk and witness some rituals still practiced in our country today.