S5.E1 ∙ Disaster in the Desert

Twenty-two children tell eleven stories about the extraordinary life of simplex-priest and Capuchin Friar, Solanus Casey.

The Absence of Mr. and Mrs. B Under social pressure, an infertile Iranian couple undergoes multiple in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments that drain both their finances and their marital bond. Both Mr. and Mrs. B take turns threatening divorce and then reconciling in a truly confusing dance of passion and punishment.

An urban nature lover, John Dunstan documents his early morning walks with Tommy, his English bulldog. Set amidst reclaimed natural habitat skirting Jersey City and Bayonne, against the dramatic backdrops of the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty, The film creates a visual poem with a few surprises.

What does the world smell of ? A tour of the world through natural essences and the relationship with humans. A worldwide vision of the earth and its people. Hundreds of thousands of miles traveled for 11 years. Images of 106 natural essences in 43 countries of the five continents. A journey through the sense of smell.

Lost Down Memory Lane is the first author's documentary about living with Alzheimer's, seen exclusively through the eyes of people who suffer from it. Eight of them live together under constant supervision and care. They are all in the first phase of the disease: bouts of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion constantly alternate. The patients live their lives, as long as they're capable. The film is a 'tranche de vie': a portrait of the daily coming and going of people in that particular and ditto state. It is also the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory from the characters. Eventually the characters will have changed. Because of their illness, they may have been disappeared completely, physically or mentally.

This documentary film chronicles the life, growth, and achievements of an autistic and deaf young man named David, and the pursuing struggles and challenges that his mother Sandy Rochelle(the film-maker)had to encounter in order to help him achieve the fruition of adulthood that he now enjoys.