This film is an ode to the commonplace. Its four segments or chapters are slighter narratives that the commonplace, everyday situations, yield and with interest; all was needed was a steady gaze of interest to discover these. The film is an observational (in the filming) and a just a positioning (in…
On April 25, 2015 Nepal was hit by a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Among the worst hit in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake was the prime trekking destination of Langtang. A glacial collapse caused an avalanche of rock, ice and mud, resulting in an airblast, equal to half the force of the Hiroshima…
This is an unusually intimate portrait of a state-run hospital in one of Nepal’s most remote and poorest districts of Kalikot in West Nepal. For medical personnel, it is the kind of posting that is to be avoided or to quickly escape from. In capturing the daily goings-on of the hospital, the film…
This film explores the fragile ground where love and unlove cohabit, illuminating a rare space where the two are in close proximity but distinct. A unique Scottish Presbyterian home was founded by a missionary at the turn of the century in British India. It takes in orphans, mainly destitute Anglo-Indian…
They call themselves ‘corner’ people. No settlement lies beyond their high hills. The poorest among them are sub-subsistence; there is no electricity, and not a single shop. Children attend a 3-room school that goes up only to class 3; after that they must walk 4 hours daily. Villagers walk…
In recent years, fear of being caught in the crossfire between state security forces and Maoist insurgents and a failing economy propelled Nepalis to sell themselves as cheap labour in the Gulf. Their earnings sustain one out of every three households and remittances prop up the country The film…
Nepal has rapidly become a pipeline of cheap labour for the Gulf in the last two decades. Migration has emptied Nepal’s villages of its young men, its farm fields tended by the elderly and women or left fallow. This film is about young men who set out to escape their family woes and grinding…
The film looking at women migrant workers follows the thread of Dolma, sentenced to death for killing a Filipino co-domestic in Kuwait, presenting the multiple responses to this event, the upheaval and fractures of the family, the women’s advocacy group, Nepali society and officialdom. It presents…
Plus focalisée sur l’acte commis que sur les besoins des parties, la justice pénale montre certaines limites. «Je ne te voyais pas» explore le difficile rapprochement entre victimes cherchant à se reconstruire et auteurs enclins à se responsabiliser. La justice…
Director Pierre Schoendoerffer started as a war cinematographer for the French military during the first Indochina War. He subsequently became a full-fledged filmmaker and directed in 1962 "Platoon 317th", which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and still remains one of the best…
"MELTDOWN presents an extraordinary convergence of art & science, as we see two fascinating perspectives on the world's most pressing issue of Climate Change. The film features acclaimed photographer Lynn Davis, who has earned global recognition with her spectacular collection of photos…
D’août 1944 à mai 1945, 28 000 soldats de l’armée de Hitler, encerclés par les troupes alliées, se retranchent dans ce que l'on nomme alors la "Poche" de Saint-Nazaire. Face à eux, les troupes alliées pilonnent le camp retranché.…
