A day in the life of Newcastle upon Tyne... The Grainger Market is at the beating heart of this film, that was recently rescued from the Amber archive. The council wanted a film about what was going on in the city; the Amber the collective thought they could maybe take the opportunity to make the film…
Brainstorm: Between the Shores is a story of a cult Latvian band that have been together since childhood and as a band grown over 25 years alongside the country's history. The documentary reveals how the music group was and is influenced by the changing political and economical environment. Brainstorm…
“The story of night” is a sixty-minute black-and-white film made by a small camera-crew over 150 nights in many different parts of Europe, when the cities were empty and devoid of life. The film is composed of a collection of quiet, meditative pictures and sounds which my collaborators and…
The PAPER TRAIL, which begins in the forests of Australia, travels to Japan's industrial centres and leads to factories, department stores and rubbish dumps from Melbourne to Tokyo. The first paper was produced some 5,000 years ago; since then its uses have multiplied at a staggering rate. We…
In 1937 Yosl, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, arrived in Melbourne where he joined his sister Ruth, a dancer, and his father Melech Ravich. A leading Yiddish writer, Ravich had journeyed to Australia to search for a new homeland for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe. But Australia in the…
Algeria/France - Documentary - 130' - 2010 November 1st, 1954, near Ghassira, a small village lost in the Aures, a couple of French teachers and an Algerian mob boss are the first civil victims of a seven years war leading to the independence of Algeria. Over fifty years later, Malek Bensmaïl…
Algérie/France - Documentaire - 130' - 2010 Le 1er novembre 1954, près de Ghassira, petit village perdu dans les Aurès, un couple d’instituteurs français et un caïd algérien sont les premières victimes civiles d’une guerre de sept ans…
Algeria/France - Documentary - 105’ - 2004 This 2003 documentary about an Algerian psychiatric ward has no overriding thesis, but the interactions between patients, doctors, and family members are often fascinating. Some situations are familiar (patients who resist taking their medication),…
An exposé of the ecological and personal effects of the notorious palm oil industry.
Rachel is a single mother and a very resilient young woman who has faced many problems in her life. Now she wants brain surgery to rid her of the epilepsy that is ruling her life. This intimate observational documentary follows her through the assessment process and the subsequent brain surgery, with…
“Papers" is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. Approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers.” Currently, there is no path to citizenship for most of these young people. The…
The unlikely collaboration between a veteran choreographer and a young actor with cerebral palsy delivers astonishing proof that each and every body is capable of miraculous transformation. As Tamar Rogoff trains Gregg Mozgala to become a dancer, they discover that her lack of formal medical training…
