Dir: Mark Claywell
Website:americanjihadist.com
What social, economic and political environments create the mindset of a Jihadist, especially an American one? American Jihadist is a look at militant Islam through the eyes of an American who fought for it. Isa Abdullah Ali, aka Clevin Raphael Holt, is intriguing because he grew up in the ghettos of America’s capitol and was surrounded by physical and psychological violence from the very beginning. American Jihadist looks at what role violence and a lack of hope for the future play in the development of radicalism. The film reaches beyond easy labels to grasp the nuances behind one man’s decision to fight for his religion.

Dir: Linda G. Mills
Website:tilwemeetagainfilm.com
In this compelling and often funny tale of recovery and renewal, author and activist Linda Mills is propelled by her family’s life-threatening experience of September 11, 2001 to return to the site of her mother’s flight from Vienna, Austria in 1939. Accompanied by her comically bored ten-year-old son, Ronnie, her highly opinionated and wholly engaging 80-something mother Annie and Aunt Rita, Linda discovers unsettling truths that upend a series of familial and historical myths. In never before filmed archives in the Jewish Community in Vienna, a new generation of archivists and historians, many of whom are themselves descendants of Nazis, painstakingly reconstruct the records of the Jewish exodus. In her family’s files, Linda discovers a complicated story of escape, deception, and even – dare we say – complicity with the Nazis. Auf Wiedersehen is an unconventional documentary that brings the lessons of history into the present day through the eyes of an irreverent ten year old boy. Along the way, the family discovers an astonishing array of collaborators, victims, perpetrators, and unlikely heroes in a startlingly humorous adventure spanning five generations.