hunger

Joy Moore observes a bird begging for food in the wrong place.

A meeting with an Orthodox priest changes a woman’s understanding of the relationship between the spiritual and the physical.

A poem inspired by a photograph taken in Haiti, five days after the 2006 election of Rene Preval.

Much of the NFB’s library is online, but it can be intimidating to search through, so Filmwell presents a look at three of its finest short films.

The lavish flashbacks towards the end are aesthetic counterpoints to his vanishing flesh, part of a quiet rhythm that winds down refusing to tell us whether Sands was a fool or not. He simply moulders in these synecdoches of mortality.

AKRON, Pa. – In Cochas, Peru, Eulogio Medina and his wife, Guillermina Salome, work with quiet dignity, creating exquisite carved gourds that reflect their country’s rich tradition. Across an ocean, men and women with that same quiet dignity volunteer their time to showcase Eulogio and Guillermina’s work, selling their crafts to help supplement their family’s […]