A large family of adopted children. Mrs Jeanette Roberts has 22 children. All are adopted or waiting for adoption; most have been abused or rejected by the parents, and are difficult to place, yet she has had remarkable success (she appeared in 'Taking the Lid Off' about child abuse). The…
"In the Name of Confucius" is the first documentary film exposing the growing global controversies surrounding the Chinese government’s multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute (CI), a Chinese language program attaching to over 1,600 foreign universities and schools around the world. Featuring…
In the Name of Confucius är den första dokumentärfilmen som exponerar de växande globala kontroverserna kring den kinesiska regeringens mångmiljardsatsning på Confucius Institute (CI), ett kinesiskt språkprogram som finns i över 1600 utländska universitet…
In 1974, Gerry Conlon was a victim of one of the worst judicial crimes in UK history. Aged 20, he and 3 others were sentenced to life in prison for an IRA bombing. "The Guildford Four" had to wait until 1989 for the court to recognize the evidence was false. Conlon became a world-famous human…
Since 2009 - more than 17,000 girls from Kerala, and another 15,000 girls from Mangalore from Hindu and Christian communities have been converted to Islam and most of them ended up landing in Syria, Afghanistan and other ISIS and Taliban influential areas. Directed by Sudipto Sen Written by Sudipto…
Forget everything you think you know about storytelling! And get ready for a very surreal trip. Narges Kalhor plunges us in a funny and deconstructed joyful apocalypse of a web of stories while following four characters who moved to Germany in order to escape the dire and dangerous political situation…
— For Home Use Only — The concept of a "gene" — which came about during the Gilded Age — conveniently supported the notion that biology was destiny and that creating policies to directly address social issues was a waste of time. Those problems were said to be inherent…
The military regime of Guatemala was considered to be one of the worst violaters of humans rights in the world during the 1980's. Thousands of political murders are committed there every year, it is claimed, and the Roman Catholic Church has protested that the government has been involved in murder,…
Ethnographers Phillip and April Vannini travel with their daughter over five years, to five continents and ten countries in search of the different meanings of wilderness, wildness, and wild nature. The documentary explores wildness in UNESCO World Heritage sites in Australia, New Zealand, Japan,…
Puts forward the case that traditionally in Britain all basic political and civil freedoms have had to be fought for (such as gaining the right to vote) and that civil and political rights that do exist have never been protected by law. Argues that the Public Order Bill, giving the police more powers…
Children have an important message about nuclear war. Sixty children of various races and backgrounds from twenty different schools were individually interviewed for this production. Twenty-seven young people represent the overall spontaneous thoughts and feelings expressed concerning the arms race.…
In the Outskirts of Venice II – Dans les faubourgs de Venise – II Alla periferia di Venezia II / Rina Sherman HD, colour, 20 min, 2017 Cities & Elsewhere – Villes & Ailleurs : Tableaux mouvants – Slow Cinema + d'info : https://www.kediteur.com/produit/in-the-outskirts-of-venice-ii-dans-les-faubourgs-de-venise-ii-alla-periferia-di-venezia-ii/
