Catalogue highlights

 

Stories From Lakka Beach - In Lakka, a small beach village in Sierra Leone whose international story has been dominated by a rebel war, a colorful mix of villagers tell their own stories of war, love, god, tradition and foreigners. Together they tell us the story about a worn torn community in a peaceful Sierra Leone. (click for full description)

Sunny Side of Sex - Philosopher/Filmmaker Sunny Bergman travels to Uganda, China, India and Cuba to compare attitudes about sex, love, femininity and body image. (click for full description)

Nasseredin Shah and his 84 Wives - In 1842 the 11 year-old heir to the Persian throne received a camera from Queen Victoria of England. In the following decades he documented his life, revealing to the public eye what it was never supposed to see. (click for full description)

The Silent Truth - Is there an army cover up of the rape and murder of women soldiers? (click for full description)

Making the Boys - “In his absorbing documentary, director Crayton Robey digs into the divisiveness of a work held up as a pioneering breakthrough, but just as often dismissed as a pre-Stonewall anachronism. “ Hollywood reporter, February 2011 (click for full description)

Something Unknown - Is it possible that some people can read your mind, or look into the future? How is it that some people can cure themselves in the last stages of a deadly cancer? Does mind over matter really exist, and if so, how do we explain it? People claim to 'see' distant objects or places. Do they really 'see' something? Filmmaker Renée Scheltema wants to know.(click for full description)

The Road to Diyarbekir - Legendary Kurdish musician Ciwan Haco lives a double-life. An exile, eking out an existence in the small Swedish village of Gävle, he lives with his wife and children. In Gävle he is just another asylum seeker in the cold, snowy landscape. Not many people know that he is a superstar and folk hero among Kurds all over the world. (click for full description)

Salla, Selling the Silence - Salla, a small Finnish town on the border of Lapland. As we see from sprightly 8mm home movies, it was where filmmaker Markku Tuurna and his boyhood friend, Jyrki, spent many joyous years skiing, sledding, swimming, boating and fishing in the huge natural reserve. (click for full description)

The Queen and I - Thirty years ago, Nahid Persson took part in the revolution which brought down Iran’s monarchy driving the Shah and his queen, Farah Diba, to exile in Paris where the queen lives until today. In the Queen and I, Nahid meets her former opponent and they have frequent confrontations and revelations. Their encounter evolves into an unforeseen journey of two women in exile, who have more in common than either of them would have envisioned. (click for full description)

Stone Pastures - Pashmina, the finest cashmere wool. Paradoxically, the finest of wools comes from the harshest of places. The Himalayan plateau of Ladakh’s cold, gritty, rocky conditions produces the fine warm undergrowth in Pashmina goats creating the luxurious wool Pashmina. (click for full description)

The Sari Soldiers - Julie Bridgham’s epic film documents Nepali history as it unfolds. Filmed over three years during the most pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, the Sari Soldiers tells the extraordinary story of six very different women’s bold efforts to shape Nepal’s future.
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Marina of the Zabbaleen - Enter the extraordinary world of seven-year-old Marina. She is an imaginative, smart, beautiful child and her story leads us into the
never-before-seen Muqqattam garbage-recycling village in Cairo.
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Football Under Cover - Narmila is on the Iranian Women's national football team, they’re dedicated, they train, they love football, but they have one problem, they are not allowed to compete.
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Four Wives – One Man - From the maker of the award-winning Prostitution Behind the Veil, Nahid Persson’s latest film is an intimate, often humorous, portrait of four wives, Farang, Goli, Shahpar and Ziba, their husband, an astoundingly free-spoken mother-in-law and their numerous children. (click for full description)

Over the Hill – Sunny Bergman goes to America to find out why it is that at 34 she already feels over the Hill. (click for full description)

 

Journey of a Red Fridge - A trek with one of the many child porters of Nepal. (click for full description)

 

Punam - What is it like to be a child in a third world country? PUNAM will take you there. (click for full description)

 

The Hermitage-niks, A Passion for the Hermitage – A treasury of anecdotes about the Hermitage from the people who have seen it through the storms of 20th century Russia. (click for full description)

 

Daughters of Wisdom - An intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a
rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery exclusively for women in remote
northeastern Tibet. (click for full description)

 

Between 2 Houses - a short drama about a man and a woman's unspoken relationship. (click for full description)

 

Goat Walker - Rural Poland comes alive as very poor farmers struggle to
adopt a new form of government welfare - a goat. (click for full description)

 

Bambara Blues - A respected woman from Mali uses the song tradition of the griots to educate the population of a mining community on HIV/AIDS. (click for full description)

 

Living with van Gogh - Like lottery ticket holders when the lottery keeps getting postponed or contested, owners of supposed Van Goghs live in a constant state of tension, forever wondering if their property is the real thing. (click for full description)

 

A Sad Flower in the Sand - The world of John Fante, his writing, his characters and his most famous novel, Ask the Dust. (click for full description)

 

Napoleon for a While - A musician and a filmmaker, Wolfgang Kroner has
struggled and hoped for 30 years to become known as an artist. (click for full description)

 

The Tale of the While Whale - In 1965, the Beluga whale 'Moby' was caught off the coast of Canada, put in a holding tank and taken on board a freighter. He was destined for a zoo in England. But one year later, Moby caught the attention of the world as he was discovered swimming into Europe through the Rhine River. (click for full description)

 

Jean Rhys; They Destroyed all the Roses - Perhaps one of the most underrated writers of her time, Jean Rhys, her character, her life and her work, unfold in this compassionate account of her career. (click for full description)

 

Magnitogorsk; Forging the New Man - Russia's Magnitogorsk was a spectacular example of the will and determination to forge a new world and a new man. What happened to those people and to Magnitogorsk? We look at it then, a stunning example of an ideology at work, and we look at it and its people today. (click for full description)

 

Wanderers of the North - Life on Siberia's tundra, Taimyr reindeer journey from the mountains of the south to the shores of arctic ocean risking hazards of weather, terrain and the tundra's predators. (click for full description)