Russell Banks

Le film retrace l'histoire, la culture et la vie de 15 petites villes américaines, toutes nommées Amsterdam. Les lieux explorés sont New York (New Amsterdam), Amsterdam (État de New York), Amsterdam (Pennsylvanie), Amsterdam (Ohio), Amsterdam (Virginie), Amsterdam (Géorgie), Amsterdam (Mississippi), Amsterdam (Texas), Amsterdam (Indiana), Amsterdam (Wisconsin), Amsterdam (Iowa), Amsterdam (Missouri), Amsterdam (Montana), Amsterdam (Idaho), et Amsterdam (Californie).

This feature doc profiles acclaimed writer Alistair MacLeod. Hailed internationally as a master of the short story, MacLeod also wrote a novel, No Great Mischief, which was celebrated around the world. Depicting men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that surrounds them, most of MacLeod's work is firmly based in Cape Breton even if his characters stray elsewhere. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, MacLeod maps the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between people and invokes memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations. This film portrait explores the life and work of this giant of literature.

Algren will spotlight the hard-knock life and authentic creative legacy of one of the most underrated writers of the twentieth century, Nelson Algren. Algren's brutally honest portrayal of the American underclass and his hard-nosed lifestyle became his pathway to compassion. Through interviews with Algren contemporaries, experts, and "literary soulmates," as well as through the photography of Algren's friends, Art Shay and Stephen Deutch, the film will tell his story. It will celebrate his tremendous contribution to and influence on American letters, and push Algren, champion of the marginalized, out from the margins.

A performance of some of Nelson Algren's greatest and least known works, performed live at the Steppenwolf theatre in Algren's hometown, Chicago.

Retour sur la carrière de la romancière afro-américaine, Toni Morrison, lauréate du prix Pulitzer (1988) et du prix Nobel de littérature (1993).

Un drame unit les habitants d'une petite ville. Un avocat vient attiser leur haine, pour apaiser ses propres démons. Dans cette ambiance de méfiance et de doute, une adolescente parviendra à reconquérir sa dignité, et à préserver l'unité de la communauté.

The account of a New England woman's life in Liberia from the mid-1970s to 1991.

The account of a New England woman's life in Liberia from the mid-1970s to 1991.

Ever wonder what's going on next door? Ever spy on your neighbors, gossip behind their backs? Well, if you live here you do. A story concerning 13 neighbors stuck in an small trailer park. It is all about human connections.