One hero’s story of fighting back against gang culture on New York’s streets... Frustrated with the increasing rate of crime in 1970s New York, Curtis Sliwa and his fast-food restaurant colleagues decided to take citizen safety into their own hands – forming ‘The Guardian Angels’.…
The untold story of the history and making of Penicillin. In 1940, as World War Two raged, Australian Howard Florey and team at Oxford University made the worlds first antibiotic. They used old bedpans, parts of a broken telephone and scrounged dairy equipment. Penicillin was a lifesaver, but its…
A story about the absence of blood... of how "a massacre of an election" was avoided... and became a triumph of emerging democracy. In Iraq, the battle for democracy means daily horror and bloodshed. In Papua New Guinea in early 2007 - ahead of a mid-year general election - there were widely-held…
April, 1947. The artist Joy Hester – The beautiful, peroxide-blonde bombshell of the Melbourne art world – discovers she is dying of cancer. She is twenty-seven years old. Hester responds to the news as only Hester could – within days, she abandons her artist husband Albert Tucker,…
If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future…
Award-winning documentarian Roger Nygard explains why relationships fail; and provides scientifically researched tips on how to find one that goes the distance. "This documentary is outstanding! I encourage everybody to watch this wonderful documentary to gain valuable guidance on how to best…
This award-winning documentary probes UFO fanatics, government cover-ups, and the top alien experts like Stanton T. Friedman, Robert O. Dean, Budd Hopkins, Peter Gersten, Don Schmidt, Whitley Strieber, Rich Kronfeld, and hundreds of alien enthusiasts, abductees, and the denizens of Roswell's odd…
Trailer in English, full movie in Ukrainian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Trails of a Jewish European in the 20th century Jerzy Czarnecki, the protagonist of the film, could have contented himself with a quiet retirement after many years of work as a nuclear technologist for the Swiss Federal Office…
Naive dreams – A Jewish community lives on A documentary film by Susanne and Peter Scheiner Length: 30 min Spoken Languages: German, Slovak, Hungarian Subtitles: Hungarian http://www.ava-scheiner.ch Synopsis The Jewish community in Komárno (Slovakia) celebrates 220 years –…
ART IN SMOG offers an intimate, philosophical glimpse of contemporary China, experienced through the work and lives of four artists and a curator. Footage from 1991 and 2016 documents a changing world. SU XINPING and XIA XIAOWAN were young graduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts who dreamed of…
MARIA MUSS PACKEN ist ein Film über ein altes polnisches Ehepaar und ihren Kampf gegen den drohenden Verlust ihrer Wohnung. Ein Film über Gerechtigkeit und die Bewältigung von Schicksalsschlägen – mit positiver Lebenseinstellung. Eine Parabel über das Altwerden und Jungbleiben. Auf…
Drama about the sexual abuse of a man with learning difficulties A film about the sexual abuse in a care home of a man with learning difficulties. This drama is based on a true incident, and is very convincingly acted. Of interest to all organisations concerned with abuse and safeguarding, particularly…
