Lord Justice Scott's inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair In 1996 the report of Lord Justice Scott's inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair was published. "The current legislation is appallingly outdated ... it allows export controls to be used for any purpose whatever the government…
Doctors interviewing older primary school children Shows community paediatricians interviewing older primary school children. Extracts of the interviews have been taken to introduce medical students and post graduate doctors to finer aspects of child and family interviewing. Examines the skllls of…
Jandamarra’s War is the story of an Aboriginal warrior who should be as famous as Ned Kelly. He led one of the most effective rebellions in the history of indigenous peoples' resistance to European colonisation. In the 1890’s European settlers arrive in the Kimberley, North West Australia,…
In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. Servant or Slave follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants…
Alice, Kenton, Bucky, and Rachna are the hidden victims of the chemical industry. They all grew up in either India or in the US, in towns built around plastic and pesticide factories. For a long time, their resounding success has masked the darker reality behind their practices. For several decades,…
Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten followed a nice middle class family during three years, 2002 -2005. From the crisis that punished the middle class to the heartbreaking moment of emigration and a new beginning in Spain. Before, The Borroni family's future was bright: Oscar had it all: he managed…
Four brothers in a small village in Kosovo. They have lived through the war, but their heads are still full of old westerns. Modern American films were not allowed to be screened in Communist former Yugoslavia, but old westerns were repeated so often you knew them off by heart. And you could act them out.
Aged 21, Maria suffers a cerebral haemorrhage during a boxing match. She makes a miraculous recovery but her true fight begins when she wants to return to the ring. The Swedish Boxing Federation won’t let her fight because of the accident, her mother is reluctant to even hearing Maria talk about…
Vija Celmins is one of the most important artists of the postwar generation. She is best known for her drawings of the ocean and the galaxies of the night sky. These brilliant works were mostly realized during a seventeen year period when she stopped painting altogether in order to explore drawing. In…
In the fall of 2007, a brilliant retrospective exhibition of the work of Georg Baselitz opened at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. It was curated by Norman Rosenthal, who had first exhibited paintings by Baselitz in the early 1970’s. Baselitz traveled to London to lecture at the Academy and…
More than 40 000 whites, of a total 4,5 million South Africans are currently classified as absolutely poor and live in informal settlements. Shacks and tents can be found on farms hidden far away from the public eye. Occasionally you may see a white beggar at the traffic lights, but in general most South…
SHIFT is a half hour documentary about a group of indigenous youth who spent 10 years converting traditional trails around their hometown of Carcross, Yukon into a world-class mountain biking destination – and are transforming their community and themselves along the way. Winner of the "People's…
