people of ireland documents the self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Free Derry in 1969. It includes: interviews with militants, community leaders, a priest, a Stormont Minister and unemployed workers; footage of mass meetings behind the barricades, popular self-organisation, the Labour Home…
"Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine are two of the foremost architectural artists working today. Their films focus on the relationship of people and space, emphasising the presence of everyday life within some of the most iconic architectural projects of recent decades." (Barbican Centre) Presented…
LOGLINE Can a documentary save a fish species from extinction? SHORT SYNOPSIS We lost bluefin tuna forever from Bosporus and the great white shark chasing it ! we lost marlin, we lost Mediterranean monk seal, we lost Bosphorus mackerel... Is BLUEFISH stands the next marine species on line of extinction…
SYNOPSIS Guatemala. The war ended long ago. Though the people want to forget it, the violence continues, and it has spread throughout the society like cancer. Each day, journalists wait to report on the next murder victim, and a social worker helps the relatives of women who have been killed. The…
SYNOPSIS Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Mühl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In With(out) Family the director Paul-Julien…
SYNOPSIS The protagonists of SEEING VOICES may not be able to hear, but that definitely does not leave them without words. Sign language represents a parallel universe full of magic and expressive power which remains unexplored country for the vast majority of people. Ayse, Helene and the non-hearing…
SYNOPSIS HOUSE OF ATONEMENT tells the story of a luckless address: Vienna, Schottenring 7. This was the site of Ringtheater where nearly four hundred people died in a fire in 1881. Where the emperor subsequently built the Sühnhaus (‘the house of atonement’) to make up for it and no-one…
SYNOPSIS Since his 15th birthday, the timid archeology student Sven, is aware that he is sexually attracted to children. In this sensitive longterm documentary he is one of the first pedo- philes to openly talk about his dreams, his fears and hopes. Sven has vowed never to act out his affinity and…
A portrait of a New York neighborhood, centered around East 77th Street and its immediate surroundings. The film captures the flavor of this area, made up of a white population from the very rich on 5th Avenue to the ordinary citizens as you proceed towards the East River which was known as the Dead…
“White Dog” was a much discussed and controversial film directed by Sam Fuller in 1981, based on a novel by Romain Gary. Its theme is American racism. The central figure is a white German shepherd, adopted by a young actress played by Kristy McNichol, who discovers that the dog had been trained…
“Can cinema forge a country? This quirky doc cracks open the vaults at Avala Film Studios, the deserted state-owned facility that once churned out star-studded propaganda fostering the myths behind the rise -- and eventual collapse -- of Yugoslavia.” HotDocs Serbia, 100 minutes, 2011.…
A biography of Richard Wright, author of Black Boy and Native Son, from his impoverished childhood, involvement in left-wing politics and literary relationships, to his exile and death in Paris.
