Movies: New Yorker Films
- 1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
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On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memo...
- 1993
Guelwaar (1993)
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Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetary forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor....
- 1977
Fortini/Cani (1977)
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The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social relations around him, the rise of Fascism in Italy, the anti-A...
- 1977
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)
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More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged in loose chronology: early years, fitting in (which for some meant marriage), coming out, establishing...