CUBAMERICAN is the stirring story of how the Cuban Revolution shattered the Cuban family. Spanning the past 60 years of Cuban history, the film evokes this tragedy and its universal themes of loss, freedom, assimilation, struggle and triumph through the stories of Cuban exiles that have achieved acclaim…
Evolving Democracy for changing times needs to happen. But how? By Whom? What can be done to improve politics and influence the world we live in? To answer these questions we went to meet leaders and technologists around the world who are experimenting and designing new 'democracy-tech'…
Renowned New Zealand painter Rita Angus lived and worked at a time when to be a full time artist was unusual and hardly considered a serious occupation. Preston explores a colourful collection of friends and family who knew and loved Rita, while biographer Jill Trevelyan provides a fresh intelligence…
DOCUMENTARY / 2016 / 14 MINUTES / DUTCH / SHORT FILM / 1080P / 25FPS / STEREO / BELGIUM Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles. In this unscripted documentary,…
“The Mighty Rams” fulfills a life-long dream to document the early days of racial integration in Charleston, SC, including intense racial tension, race riots and the James Island Rams High School football team that took momentous steps to end the threat of riots forever. As a result of struggling…
“The Mighty Rams” fulfills a life-long dream to document the early days of racial integration in Charleston, SC, including intense racial tension, race riots and the James Island Rams High School football team that took momentous steps to end the threat of riots forever. As a result of struggling…
SHAKESPEARE IN ZAATARI tells the story of Syrian children living in Zaatari, Jordan, one of the largest refugee camps in the world. Their sad daily routine is broken by an almost incredible project: The well-known Syrian actor and director Nawar Bulbul rehearses with them over several months the Shakespeare…
The Love Boat Film A short film that covers the Syrian director Nawar Bulbul’s theatrical experience with refugees and injured persons from Syria in Amman, Jordan. The script draws on a variety of universally known play scripts like “The Knights” by Aristophanes, “Servant of…
DOCUMENTARY / 2015 / 8 MINUTES 53 SECONDS / NO DIALOGUE / SHORT FILM / 2K / 25FPS / 5.1 SURROUND / BELGIUM, POLAND director: Katarzyna Gondek synopsis: It's white and windy all around. A gigantic figure emerges from behind the snow curtain and hits the road. It passes towns, villages, houses,…
Take a trip back in time to where men slaved through mud, rain and treacherous landscapes to forge a link between the mining town of Queenstown and the port of Strahan along Tasmania's rugged West Coast. This fascinating documentary is the incredible story of the railway's resurrection following…
In 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia attacked the husband and wife of one the most prominent young couples in Fauquier County. Two months later a farmer found the black man’s body hanging from a tree. Parts of the body were then publicly displayed beneath the Warrenton courthouse…
‘My Generation’ tells the inspiring story of the pop culture explosion in 1960s through the eyes of Britain’s greatest living movie actor. Michael Caine introduces the film in the buttoned up, monochrome heart of London at the start of the 1960s, in a world blighted by economic hardship…
