Film
Time and Winds (Bes Vakit)
A beautiful contemplative immersion in the children’s sense of the immensity of time and events. Written and directed by Reha Erdem
El Baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet)
A film about the Pope’s toilet. Directed by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone
My life inside
A masterful piece of film-making that leaves the audience gasping at the injustice of a 99 year sentence for a Mexican 'illegal' migrant following the death of the child she was minding
An island calling
An explosive mix of politics, religion and sexuality explored through the life of a gay couple in Fiji
Kids and money
The horrors of the attitudes towards money of Los Angeles 12-16-year-olds
Letter to Anna: the Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death
The story of one journalist who tirelessly exposed its horrors and manipulation by the Moscow political class.
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Chocolate City
A wonderful documentary that tells the story of 400 families who were forced from their housing project in the shadow of Capitol Hill, Washington DC, by speculative development.
Killer of Sheep
A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.
Couscous (La Graine et Le Mulet)
Kechiche, like Fatih Akin, the Turkish-German film-maker, shows us how the lives of migrants and their children straddle cultures, and, like Akin’s Head-On, Couscous is passionate and earthy.
Three and Out
Colm Meaney is Tommy, an Irishman in London who plans to kill himself. Directed by Jonathan Gershfield
Swimming Against the Tide
Thoroughly researched and with heart-warming personal accounts, Tom Fawthrop’s Swimming Against the Tide is an inspiration.
Why We Fight
Why We Fight: It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Breathless in Beijing
Sam Geall reports on broken promises at the Olympics.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.
The privatization of Patagonia
Rich foreign investors are buying up huge areas of Argentina’s southern wilderness. Tomás Bril Mascarenhas exposes the new conservation conquistadores.
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