Documentary / 105m / Canada Dir. Malcolm James Rogge
Synopsis As a nationalist tide rises around the world, a flower artist who came of age in Hitler’s Berlin confronts her working-class family’s past and reveals its bitter secrets, confirming how essential, but also elusive, history’s lessons can be.
Director Malcolm Rogge is an international award-winning documentary filmmaker and legal scholar from Winnipeg, Canada. His acclaimed feature documentary film about a mining conflict in Ecuador, Under Rich Earth, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and went on to screen at leading international film festivals, capturing First Prize in the feature documentary competition at the Festival Internacional de Cine Invisible in Bilbao, Spain. Under Rich Earth was nominated for a Coral Award at the legendary Havana Film Festival in the category of best film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker. The film garnered several other awards and nominations, including Winner of the Global Conscience Award at the Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival; Winner of the Humanitarian Award at the Tiburon International Film Festival; Winner - Best Environmental Film at the We the Peoples Film Festival in London, UK; and Top Ten Favourite Canadian Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival. His most recent film, The Tribunal, premiered in New York City in October 2023 with remarks by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, and has been shown at the United Nations Headquarters in both Geneva and Vienna. The Tribunal has been celebrated at special screenings at Oxford University; Sciences Po, Paris; UCL London, New York City, Washington D.C., University of Toronto, and Quito, Ecuador. |
