question: Which director; Joris Ivens and Lew Landers, was born in November?
answer: "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898
context: Title: Rain (1929 film)
  Passage: Rain (Dutch: Regen ) is a 1929 Dutch short documentary film directed by Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens.  It premiered on December 14, 1929, in the Amsterdam Filmliga’s theater, De Uitkijk.
  Title: Misère au Borinage
  Passage: Misère au Borinage (French, literally "Poverty in the Borinage"), also known as Borinage, was a 1934 Belgian documentary film directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens.  Produced during the Great Depression, the film has a strongly socialist theme, covering the poor living conditions of the workers and coal miners of the Borinage region of Belgium.  It is considered a classic work of political cinema and has been described as "one of the most important references in the documentary genre".
  Title: Die Windrose
  Passage: Die Windrose ("The Windrose") was a film made for the East German production company DEFA in 1957 and commissioned by the World Federation of Women.  Alberto Cavalcanti was film director, with artistic input from Joris Ivens.  Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Helene Weigel, wife of German dramatist Bertold Brecht, collaborated in the making of this film, a docu-drama about the struggle of female workers in Italy, Brazil, the Soviet Union, China and France.
  Title: Marceline Loridan-Ivens
  Passage: Marceline Loridan-Ivens (born 1928 in France) is a writer and film director who was married to Joris Ivens.  Her memoir "But You Did Not Come Back" details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  Title: Viktor Kossakovsky
  Passage: Viktor Aleksandrovich Kossakovsky (Russian: Виктор Александрович Косаковский ; born 1961 in Leningrad) is a Russian filmmaker.  He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor in 1978.  In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays the role of editor, cinematographer, writer, and director.  The film Tishe!  (Hush!)  was made from footage that Kossakovsky filmed outside his bedroom window in St. Petersburg.  The film was a festival success in 2002.  He graduated from the Higher Courses of Film Writers and Directors in Moscow in 1988.  In 1993, his first feature Belovy (The Belovs) won both the VPRO Joris Ivens Award and the Audience Award.
  Title: Freetime Machos
  Passage: Freetime Machos is a Finnish documentary film about the bromance of two players in world's most northerly rugby club called OYUS Rugby based in Oulu, Finland.  The film is directed by Mika Ronkainen and it had its world premiere at the Joris Ivens Competition of IDFA in November 2009.  The film got its North American premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2010.  It was also part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2010.
  Title: Joris Ivens
  Passage: Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker.  Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are "A Tale of the Wind", "The Spanish Earth", "Rain", "...A Valparaiso", "Misère au Borinage" ("Borinage"), "", "The Seine Meets Paris", "Far from Vietnam", "Pour le Mistral" and "How Yukong Moved the Mountains".
  Title: A Tale of the Wind
  Passage: A Tale of the Wind (French: Une Histoire de vent ) is a 1988 French film directed by Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan.  It is also known as A Wind Story.  It stars Ivens as he travels in China and tries to capture winds on film, while he reflects on his life and career.  The film blends real and fictional elements; it ranges from documentary footage to fantastical dream sequences and Peking opera.  It was Ivens' last film.
  Title: Lew Landers
  Passage: Lew Landers (January 2, 1901 – December 16, 1962) was an American independent film and television director.
  Title: The Song of the Rivers
  Passage: The Song of the Rivers (German: Das Lied der Ströme ) is a 1954 documentary film production by the East Germany's Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA).  Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens was the leading director.  The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze.  Shot in many countries by different film crews, and later edited by Ivens, Song of the Rivers begins with a lyrical montage of landscapes and laborers and proceeds to glorify labor and modern industrial machinery.  The musical score is by Dmitri Shostakovich, with lyrics written by Berthold Brecht, and songs performed by German communism's star Ernst Busch and famous American actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson who also narrates.  Song of the Rivers is an ode to "international solidarity".
citations: Joris Ivens Lew Landers