"Undeniably hilarious. “The Sheik and I” argues vociferously that it’s always better to offend than to bore." -Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times "Part Borat...Part Albert Brooks...Hilarious and not exactly innoffensive" -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine,…
A group of young shepherds and farmers explore: what does it mean to work with animals and the land? What is the role of a shepherd today?
Tommy Gulliksen and I, Trond Høines, made a documentary about Boye Brogeland and his work to clean the game of bridge from cheating. It is finally translated to English from Norwegian. The film was broadcasted on Norway's most important commercial broadcaster TV 2. Info: What is the…
What is the price to pay for being a whistleblower in the world of sports? This documentary follows the professional bridge player Boye Brogeland. He got his life turned upside down after speaking up about a possible scandal that would shake the bridge community. Boye Brogeland’s boyhood dream…
The Ship Hotel – Tyne Main Directed by Philip Trevelyan UK 1967, 16mm, b/w, 35 min Trevelyan's description of the film Initially, I took still photographs and wrote notes on my visits to a special and intimate riverside pub, used by engineers, ex-coal miners, factory workers and their…
The 1995 excavation of La Belle, buried beneath Matagorda Bay off the coast of Texas for more than three centuries, is among the most significant archeological discoveries in North America. Through an unprecedented recovery effort by the Texas Historical Commission, including the construction of a cofferdam…
The lives of third world garment makers, who supply our shops. Some garment manufacturers are having to close down because of the flood of cheap clothes coming from outside Europe. A comparison is made between the lives of four women who make the shirts. The one in the North of England is fighting…
A story of a Quixotic figure who continues to dwell on the communist values from the old China. Like a Don Quixote of China, LIU tours the whole country in a van covered with slogans and red flags, chases his lost dream of the youth by serving the people and talking about building up his personal…
On March 1, 1996, 15-year-old Shafeeq Murrel was killed on the street in South Philadelphia — innocently caught in the crossfire between rival pairs of crack dealers out for revenge. Shafeeq’s murder was one of 435 in Philadelphia that year, and it was soon shelved as a cold case. Then, detectives…
A horror movie could not be more dramatic: A disease seeks out mainly children and terrorizes them and their parents each summer. They no longer go to pools or movie theaters for fear they might contract the potentially fatal disease that often cripples its victims. A beloved, polio-afflicted U.S. President…
After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick\ themselves up, after all. Sweet Smoke of the Fatherland, documentary maker Masha Novikova’s new film, begins with these lines from the poem ‘The End and the Beginning’ by the Polish Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska.…
While the Pandemic has been a devastating time for nearly every industry around the globe, the world of live theatre – particularly musical theatre – has teetered on the brink of total collapse. But a war has been ragging in South Korea, on the West End, and on Broadway to keep theatre alive.…
